Luke Sibieta

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More or Less · Does the average teacher really earn £54,000? · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

The average teacher pay is going to be around £54,000.

The median pay for teachers in England is currently around £51,000.

But if we add in the pay rises that are going to be happening this September and next September, then teacher pay is going to be around £54,000.

So it's going in that direction.

So this is the median pay amongst all classroom teachers.

So teacher pay is structured according to pay scales going from the bottom of the main pay scale up until the top of the upper pay scale.

But teachers move through these pay scales relatively quickly.

And about a third of all classroom teachers are at the top of the upper pay scale, which is around £51,000, which is the median across all teachers.

So this probably all comes from the fact that there's a very, very large number of teachers on the upper pay scale.

So there's around a third of teachers across the country who are on the top of the pay scale.

That's not enough, obviously, to take that to the median point.

There's also around over 15, 20% of teachers are on just below the upper pay scale.

And there will be some teachers who are receiving additional payments for being head of year group or head of department.

There'll be some teachers receiving London allowances as well, which is why the median is around £51,000.

So teachers in London do receive high levels of salary.

So for example, in inner London, the top of the pay scale is around £63,000 as compared with around £51,000 outside London.

So that will be pushing up the median a little bit.

But the differences aren't big enough to be making a huge difference.

An average salary level at £51,000 is about the norm across the country.

If you look at the mode teacher across England, they're probably outside London, they're probably at the top of the upper pay scale.

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