TEACHERS’ PAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25799, 21 March 1945, Page 6

TEACHERS’ PAY

PRIMARY SCHOOL STAFFS DETAILS OF INCREASES Salary increases are to be paid to full-time primary school teachers on the same basis as those granted to Railway Department employees. Payment is to be retrospective to June 30, 1944, and is to be made before the end of this month. This information has been received in New Plymouth. The rates of increases in pay for full-time teachers are as follows: Training college students, first and second-year student teachers, grade one sole teachers, junior assistants at native schools, all £2O; third-year training college students, probationary assistants, supernumerary assistants, £25; uncertificated assistants, native schools, £3O; relieving teachers not above £305 and under clause 98, £35. Permanent Assistants

Permanent assistants and sole teachers whose salaries are not higher than £305, will receive an increase of £35; £306 to £320, £4O; £321 to £335, £45; £336 to £345, £SO; £346 to £3BO, £55; £3Bl to £425; £6O; £426 to £470, £65; £471 to £489, £7O; £490 to £765, £75. In the meantime, no arrears are to be paid to teachers whose salaries are in excess of £765. Any whose salaries are £765 will rise to £B4O, but those above £765 are to remain' on the present figure. In assessing the amount of increase due to teachers other than those for whom flat rates are listed—training college students, probationary assistants, supernumerary teachers, etc salary only is taken into account. This includes the basic scale of salary and position, married, country, district high schools, and heads of departments’ allowances. It does not include boarding allowance, bus driving allowance, or cost-of-living allowance. In determining the total salary, no deduction is made for rent, the gross salary being the basis.

Cost-of-Livlng Allowance

The cost-of-living allowance remains on the same basis as at present. The first cost-of-living allowance is payable in full if the total salary, after the increase is paid, does not exceed £335. For every £3 of the total salary—increased —above that rate, the first cost-of-living allowance is reduced by £l, until it disappears at £371. This means that any teacher who at present is receiving £691 to £765 will lose the cost-of-living allowance, because his increased salary will exceed £765 after adding the £75 increase now payable. The amount by which the first or second cost-of-living allowance has been over-paid since June 30 by the increase in salary now payable must be deducted from the amount of arrears due. The minimum married salary has been increased from the present rate of £243 to £275. All male techers, 21 years of age of over, are to be paid a minimum of £225, irrespective of length of service, and women teachers, 21 years of age or over are to be paid £175. This applies to training college students, probationary assistants, grade one sole teachers, and others who are uncertificated, as well as to all certificated teachers.