Primary education salary up to 35 percent lower than market sector
The salary differences between primary school teachers and people with a similar educational background in the market sectors can reach as much as 35 percent, according to an analysis by the Labor Market Platform for Primary Education this week. The analysis provides more insight into the salary differences. On average, teachers in primary education earn fourteen percent less.
Full-time teachers aged 35 and older are lagging most behind in the market: highly educated people who work full-time in the market sectors earn 30 to 35 percent more. Class graduates face a 23 percent pay gap to college graduates in the commercial sector.
Differences
In other groups, the differences are less marked: school leaders still face a significant backlog of twelve percent, as do female part-time teachers aged 35 to 50. The differences are smaller for starters: full-timers earn about three percent less at the start of their career. The platform used the gross hourly wage for the comparison. The analysis can be found on the website of the labor market platform, which also includes the AOb participates.
In primary education, all parties in the sector are currently campaigning for more salary and less work pressure. As a PO front, the AOb together with group PO in Actie, other unions and the primary education council on 27 June, a first warning was issued when the primary schools opened an hour later and a manifestation took place at the Malieveld. A petition calling on negotiators for a new cabinet to respond to the sector's demands has been signed nearly 370 times.
