Ant teaching assistant out there? Can you advise on pay please?

[eleanorsmum]

hi. i have just got my lovely job of ta at dd's school (so chuffed!) but the offer letter says point 7 of the local council scale. I will ring the school to check tom but does anyone know what this is roughly?
TIA

great advert for me hey, can't even spell any!

mind you any ant ta's can answers too!

Can you look on your council's website? It may vary from place to place, that's all.

Congratulations on the job BTW

Thanks!
I've had a quick look but only teaching pay listed not ta pay.

TA pay is not much at all, you don't get paid for school hols.
I used to work about 22 hrs a week. Mon to Thurs & used to bring home about £576 a month. Not much better off than working at Sainsburys but alot more asked of you.
It's not the nice little job that it's painted to be.

Teaching assistant pay is pro rata - you are paid for term time plus four weeks holiday. Then you need to pro rata it for part time hours. I am on grade 7 of local council pay spine and take home around £600 pcm for 22 hours. This is every month - although you are only paid for four weeks holiday out of 12, your pay will be split equally over 12 months. Hope this makes sense! It is a fantastic job by the way. Pay may not be much more than sainsburys but fits in so well with child care and you can't beat the feeling you get when you get that August pay packet for doing nothing for a month! Plus you get to do interesting courses and I've had two snow days this week.
Hope it goes well for you.

thanks nora, I am really looking forwards to the job (done retail, not much fun really!) DD is very excited that I'm going to be working at her school. I'm taking a drop in income from childminding to do this but there is more to life than money, all I need is enough to be happy and eat! Dh's income covers the mortgage!

Sounds like you have a good attitude! Work/life balance is worth so much more than money. Enjoy!

NJC pay scales 2008/9

In our authority you get paid for (I think) 43.26 weeks, and a full time week is 37 hours, so if you worked 22 hours at point 7 you would get £12,592 (43.26/52) (22/37)= £6228.72 or £519.06 per month.