To think most people have no idea how little HLTAs/Teaching Assistants earn?

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Anybody want to hazard a guess at the average monthly income of a ft HLTA/TA?

It really is quite shocking!

Im a TA, I’m not sure what my annual salary is but my take home pay after deductions is £1351 per month.
Thats for 34.5 hours per week.
I think it’s quite reasonable for what I do.
I used to take home similar working 24 hours per week. Now I work 34.5 and I get 13 weeks off a year. Not to mention the amount the local authority pay into my pension.
In my previous job, I worked twice as hard for the same pay and only 5% of my income was paid into my pension. The LA pay about 20% I think.

Ive seen some posts saying that TAs don’t get holiday pay. We get about 6 weeks but the pay gets spread across the year. So I work for 39 weeks a year but get paid for 45.

I love my job, haven’t been doing it long but so glad I made the move.

I'm a TA. I take home £1,230 a month for a 30 hour week. On average I work an extra hour a day unpaid as I work through most of my lunch and come in a bit early.

When I worked in a school, we got a lower hourly rate so that we got paid 12 months of the year, hourly rate and holiday pay worked out over the year

Hourly rates and the entitlement for holiday pay are added together and divided by 12, so that you take home the same every month,

This is because most wages are advertised pro rata. £22k is based on 39 hours per week, 52 weeks of the year. Most TA jobs are 24-27 hours per week, 39-44 weeks per year.x

I earn 877 per month. I have to teach the class one day a week, alone, while my class teacher gets their day PPA time as they're SLT. On the other days, I teach phonics for an hour a day for mixed year groups and oh I also 1-1 with the ECHP/HNF children in my class. If it wasn't for the children then I wouldn't do it.

@FcukTheDay Exactly why I'm quitting my HLTA role. We are, in essence, ridiculously cheap supply teachers now.

@Bertiesmum3 I know how annual pay works - obviously I meant how do you calculate that TAs "have 15/16 weeks off!!!"?

this. What is the amount of tc per month?

Christmas Easter summer whitsun February/October half term, bank holidays

Also free child care!

It's one of those roles you have to weigh up the pros and cons of really.

Pros are that you should be able to work to rule, mostly; in a way a teacher cannot (there are things like marking that are simply part of discharging their professional duties) - save for the odd bit of laminating at the end of your break before the bell goes you shouldn't really be having to go too above an beyond.

It is a shortish work day compared to someone who starts at 8:30 and is thinking about leaving the office at 5:30 pm. You are paid accordingly but should be able to plan your family life or just your life in general around this. For some people, it would mean they could go to the gym 5 days a week or socialise when they otherwise could not, but it's easy to take it for granted when it becomes your normal work day.

You can park your car on site. Nurses and health care assistants in hospitals can sometimes be on similar payscales but don't have this perk. In the same way dispensing chemists (from the other thread about pay) don't necessarily if they work in a city centre chemist.

Personally I work in an office in a school and that's perfect for me. It's more my kind of work and I can eat drink and pee when I want. I don't have to go outside in the elements, work very locally to where I live, can park my car outside my office window and it's like being part of a big family. I could earn more money in a different office job, but I get all the holidays and I'm out the door at 4pm so it's just great, and you still have that feeling of making a difference and helping people in a community-focused role.

I think LSAs can get "stitched up" easily - sorry, you're not going to the farm today, you have to 1:1 this kid because his 1:1 is off. Or sorry you have to do forest school, shame you wore your nice shoes and blowdryed your hair this morning. Oh and next year we are putting you in that class with that teacher and those pupils, etc.

The tension felt at the time of year when SLT have decided where to put whom and haven't yet told them is really something. I love knowing what my workstream will look like!

I'd like to see all school support staff on at least a scale 6 but really the thing holding the pay back is the hours worked - with the short day and the long holiday, it's always going to be part-time.

But you never have to work weekends or Christmas day or shifts for that matter and I do think that's what's stopping most heading to retail jobs...

@FcukTheDay Absolutely! I teach two days a week and the amount of parents who consistently rock up at 3.45 is unbelievable!!

Christmas Easter summer whitsun February/October half term, bank holidays

Two weeks , two weeks , six weeks, one week , one week , one week (you forgot the may one) . That's 13 weeks . Maybe an extra week ( rarely two) with odd days added and bank holidays. How does it add up to 15/16 a year?

And we're not paid for all of them anyway. I get paid only for 44 weeks a year.

I’m at Ta 3 at a sen school and work 32.5 hours a week. My yearly salary before tax and NI is £22500.00
not sure where some of the 10k per year is coming from

@Nbo You must get a considerable SEN allowance. Whereabouts are you based?

Christmas Easter summer whitsun February/October half term, bank holidays

@Bertiesmum3
How do these equal 15/16 weeks? (Note that most if not all Bank holidays fall within those other breaks)

@ArnieLinson are you aware that tax credits don't exist anymore? (Aside from legacy ones) Universal credit is very different

17k here for the same hours. That's after going up the scale and a few payrises.

2019 I was on 12k.

Are we having a run on "you'd be shocked at how much XX earn!" tonight?

Has anyone asked how much someone earns working at a food bank??

37 hours here. Year 6 TA. I come out with 1,544 a month

@SmudgeButt Do people working in food banks regularly teach classes of 30 children unsupported?

About the same I "earned" working for Oxfam?

I'm not seeing any 'disdain' for families who aren't high earners at all?

What I'm seeing is irritation at you whinging about your pay packet, when you're perfectly happy with your part-time hours and being able to work around your DC.

Maybe once your DC are older and you can find something full-time your pay will improve.

But for now you are where you are in terms of earning potential and by the sound of it, happy to stick with the job.

When I worked as a TA I arrived 20 minutes before the kids and left the same time, it's not like a teacher where you have to plan and stuff so I never considered it full time especially with all the holidays which again aside from inset days I got as support staff whereas teachers don't. It was really easy to get tutoring and babysitting jobs that bumped it up to a decent wage and more like full time hours. I actually made more being a TA with babysitting than I did the job after that that required both a degree and masters and was significantly harder and with longer hours.