Q. How many state-funded teachers are there?
Q. How much are teachers paid on average? How has it changed over the years? Q. How does the average Teacher Pay Rise compare against inflation rates? Q. How does the average salary compare for different Age Groups / Grades? Q. How many teachers are leaving the profession? |
SOURCES
Department for Education. School workforce in England: November 2017 Published 4 October 2013. Last updated 28 June 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce Table 2a: Head count of full-time, part-time and full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools by sector and grade or post. Table 9e: Full and part-time regular teachers in state funded schools average salary (mean) by sector, grade and gender. |
Teacher Workforce
Of the 451,900 Teachers captured in the November 2017 Census, the vast majority are Classroom Teachers (85%). |
Since 2010, the number of Head, Deputy and Classroom Teachers have remained about the same. However, the number of Assistant Head Teachers has increased significantly (30%). |
HEAD TEACHERS
DEPUTY HEAD TEACHERS
ASSISTANT HEAD TEACHERS
CLASSROOM TEACHERS
School Census - November 2017
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Average Teacher Salary
From the November 2017 Census, the average salary for a Head Teacher was £68.9K, £53.0K for a Deputy Head or Head of Department, and £35.4K for a Classroom Teacher. Since 2010, the average Teacher Salary for all Grades have increased but below the inflation rate. Head Teachers have seen the highest increase while the Classroom teachers have seen the lowest, with an initial 2% decrease between 2010 and 2012. |
School Workforce by Age Group
Teacher Salary by Age Group
The Average Teacher Salary increases quite quickly from the Under 25 age group and then starts to level out from 35-39 years old onward to around £42-44K. Compared with 2011, the Average Teacher Salary decreased up to 2015 for all age groups but then for teachers above 40 years old, it jumped up to be above inflation rates. For the lower age groups however (below 30 years old), the salary has remained about the same, well below the inflation rate. |
Teachers leaving the Profession
There is an increasing number of Teachers leaving the Profession. Whereas between 2000 and 2004, only Teachers above 35 years old were leaving, since 2005 Teachers below 35 have been leaving at increasing numbers. |
Thousands of Teachers in the age group 25-29 left the Profession between 2010 and 2015, which has not been seen before. |
Teacher Vacancies