Education staff pension peak continues
The retirement wave of educational staff continues. In the first nine months of 2021, approximately 12.500 employees at educational institutions retired. That is about as many as last year, when the boom in retirement started.
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The year 2020 showed a clearly different pension picture than the four years before, it said Education magazine last year on. The trend break was significant. Between 2016 and 2019, an average of slightly more than 9000 employees from education retired each year, in 2020 there were approximately 12.500.
The latest figures from the ABP, the pension fund to which teaching staff are affiliated, show that the trend is continuing.
Education staff applying for a pension
| average from 2016 to 2019 | 2020 | difference between 2016 to 2019 and 2020 | 2021 | Difference between 2020 and 2021 | |
| po | 3518 | 4676 | 33% | 4838 | 3% |
| vo | 2409 | 3165 | 31% | 3052 | -4% |
| mbo | 1148 | 1999 | 38% | 1926 | -4% |
| hbo | 786 | 1146 | 45% | 1243 | 8% |
| wo | 1051 | 1451 | 38% | 1372 | -5% |
| total | 9212 | 12437 | 35% | 12431 | 0% |
Teacher shortage
The most recent labor market report of the Ministry of Education, invariably cites retirement as the main reason for leaving education. The civil servants expect a pension peak in the coming years that will strongly influence the teacher shortage. 'Due to raising the retirement age and many teachers continuing to work longer, this was postponed for a few years, but this will take place en masse in the coming years.'
