Teachers: Average Earnings

(asked on 14th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average salary of an (a) early years, (b) primary school, (3) secondary school and (d) special school teacher was in each year since September 2013.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 22nd March 2018

The following table provides the average salaries of full and part-time teachers in service in state funded nursery and primary schools, state funded secondary schools and state funded special schools in England in November 2013 to 2016.

2013

2014

2015

2016

State Funded Nursery and Primary

£36,200

£36,300

£36,600

£37,200

State Funded Secondary

£38,000

£38,300

£38,700

£39,500

State Funded Special

£39,800

£39,900

£39,900

£40,300

Source: School Workforce Census

Figures are rounded to the nearest £100.

The information for November 2015 and 2016 is publicly available in Table 9a in each annual statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England’ available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.

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