Luke Sibieta
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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£51,000 is a fair reflection of the average teacher pay level across England.
It might come from the fact that teachers have seen real terms pay cuts over the last 15 years.
So between 2010 and 2022, teacher salary levels fell by around 12% in real terms.
They've now been creeping up over the last few years with pay rises around 5.5%, 4% and above inflation rises planned for the next few years.
And as a result of those changes, teacher pay is going to be around 7% lower than it was in 2010.
So they've seen about a 5% rise over the last few years and in the coming years.
Historically, teacher pay levels have been higher and further up towards the top of the income distribution.
So if you were to look back into say the 80s or the 90s, you'd see teacher salary levels further towards around the 80th or the 90th percentile of the income distribution.
So in relative terms, teacher pay has fallen as compared with other professional occupations over the last 20, 30 years.
If you look at all salaries across the economy, teachers are somewhere around the 60th or 70th percentile.
So they're well above the median, but not towards the upper echelons in the 90th percentiles.
If you look at teachers' pensions, they're very generous.
They're examples of a public sector pension and public sector workers tend to receive relatively high levels of pension payments.
They're in the form of defined benefit schemes, which is very unusual in the private sector, but they're also high in terms of their value and contribution rates.
If you look at the average employer contribution to pensions in the public sector, it's currently around 29% for teachers.
So they get the equivalent of around 29% employer pension contributions.
That compares with maybe around 6% in the private sector.
So teachers' pensions are very generous indeed as compared with other occupations.
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