Pay rise for teachers

This is a good step forward .. but given the current conditions in this country's education system with teachers recieving little to no respect - including being attacked by their own students - I wonder if it will really be enough to turn things around.

Although ... an 8k/month starting paycheck is nothing to sneeze at ...
 
That's still peanuts. Teachers do the most important job in S.A. - they should get at least double that to start off.
 
My brother's a teacher... and I think they get really crappy pay, I get in a month more than he earns in a year...
 
About frikken time.. the more educated the mass' are the more salaries go up and crime goes down..
 
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dlk001 said:
I'm curious to know at what level would a teacher earn R324 980, school head? That's not a bad salary at all in teaching.
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Maybe at a private school... I know my mother (also a teacher & principal), gets about R20k/pm... so x 12 + 13th... R260,000 (before tax)

I also believe people like teachers shouldn't pay tax, they're providing a service to the country.
 
dlk001 said:
I'm curious to know at what level would a teacher earn R324 980, school head? That's not a bad salary at all in teaching.
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My information may be somewhat outdated, but not by more than 10 years :D

There are a couple of things you need to get this much. Firstly, you get paid more if you have two degrees that are different enough, for example a bachalor of arts and bachalor of science. If you happen to be a head of department as well as the principal (not too common but it happens), you earn more. Add to this a few decades of service, you might get closer to that kind of money.

BUT I suspect the figure quoted probably for people who leave teaching and become academic heads in the department of education, not for ordinary teachers.

A family member was headmaster of an afternoon school, and head of dept at a highschool at the same time, had 30 years of service and held two masters degrees (one bsc, one ba), and earned nowhere near that.
 
koffiejunkie said:
My information may be somewhat outdated, but not by more than 10 years :D

There are a couple of things you need to get this much. Firstly, you get paid more if you have two degrees that are different enough, for example a bachalor of arts and bachalor of science. If you happen to be a head of department as well as the principal (not too common but it happens), you earn more. Add to this a few decades of service, you might get closer to that kind of money.

BUT I suspect the figure quoted probably for people who leave teaching and become academic heads in the department of education, not for ordinary teachers.

A family member was headmaster of an afternoon school, and head of dept at a highschool at the same time, had 30 years of service and held two masters degrees (one bsc, one ba), and earned nowhere near that.
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But they're calculating a whole new pay-scale ... so with that same 30 years of service that family member of yours might be earning that much.

So with this whole new system coming in, everybody's info is going to be out of date ;)
 
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