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

[LorlieS]

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

It really is quite shocking!

£14.91 x 32.5 hours a week=£484.57 x 46.49 weeks a year = £22,527 a year

@Lorralorr Because TAs in the main are only employed school hours.

@SquirrelHash But the issue comes when some of the families you work with are by their very nature challenging. You probably wouldn't believe some of the things we all have a duty to report as safeguarding, even in primary. Not all parents understand nor appreciate the need for professional distancing.

@Nbo And this proves my original point.
So many people have no idea how little support staff are paid!

I literally work in a school, so I absolutely do

We do, but most are pro rata, and this calculation is not.

That is my pro rata wage

Nbo that's great but most LSAs do not work those weeks - that's nearly as much as a standard annual leave entitlement. Many have 13 weeks off a year, which is pro-rated accordingly, making their hourly rate much lower.

I get 39 weeks paid that I am in work and the 7.49 is holiday pay including an extra week pay I got for working however many years service. It is pro rated and every single person working in a school is entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday a year

Every single person who
works on a permanent based contract should be getting a minimum of 44.6 paid weeks a year regardless of only working 39 weeks

The FTE of my level 3 salary is £23893. I work 32.5 hrs a week and get paid for 45 weeks a year. Pro rata salary therefore £18122 Pa. FTE for level 4 HLTA is only £25119 so pro rata £19041.

Quite.

I’m not sure why this seems so difficult for people to grasp. Especially people who say they work in a school.

I don’t understand it either! Regardless of it being a school it’s still a legal requirement for every employee to have 5.6 weeks holiday a year! 🤯

It's great that some TAs on here are on 30+ hours a week, that makes a difference. Some schools I've worked in, the 'full time' hours were 25. (9 -3 with an hour for lunch). Obviously actual hours were more but that goes without saying. 🤨

But that would be for 52 weeks a year? So 39 weeks would be a percentage of that?

https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement
Shift, term-time and zero-hours workers with ongoing contractsYou must still get 5.6 weeks' paid holiday as a minimum if you work irregular hours with an ongoing employment contract. This can include:

• shift work, for example working a shift pattern of 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off
• term-time work, for example working 39 weeks a year during school term-time but being employed for the whole year
• zero-hours contracts, for example working some weeks but having the contract remain in place in the weeks where no work is carried out

This type of work is sometimes called part-year work. Your holiday entitlement should not be affected by how many weeks you actually work in a year. This is because the employment contract is in place for the whole year.

Interesting @Nbo.

There is definitely a National pay scale for school support staff

Sadly most support staff these days is agency and they get a sweet f* all.

But each LA can choose which grade to pay support staff on. There is huge variation in salaries on this thread alone.

Yes, the FTE salary of our HLTAs is very nearly 30k at the top of the grade but the salary is of course pro-rata.