Independent school teachers - question

[Dominey]

Hi,
If you teach in an independent school, would you mind telling me what your salary increase is, if any, for September? Ours is 4% and staff aren’t happy. Head says it’s what all schools are doing but I’m interested to know if this is true?

We are out of TPS as well.

Ours is 5%. We are not in the TPS. I think you have to look at it in relation to school fee rises. Ours are raising fees 7%. It feels fair enough. We given a presentation about costs and the potential costs when labour get in power. Raising fees is a balancing act.

Yes we had the presentation too…Fees going up 8%. My salary is poor considering I’ve been teaching 20 years and am head of department, but I love my job and it won’t make me leave. Plus I’m lucky I’m not the main breadwinner. I don’t know the staff who are manage to be honest.

We didn't have a pay rise between 2015-22 and had to fight twice to stay in the TPS. Last year we got 3%, and in September we are promised 5%. Wages still significantly below state, though, and people are owed 'optional' salary deductions from 2020. Governors have promised those before the end of the academic year.

I work in independent (but currently getting my CPD ducks in a row in order to jump ship in a year) and we’ve just had a 6% pay rise.

I can’t help but feel the governors are buttering us up for coming out of the TPS.

I’m sick of the poor educational standards in the independent sector anyway and the boys club vibes, so I won’t grieve too badly when I leave.

2% and looks like we’re going to be consulted coming out of TPS in September. Salaries also below the state pay scale already even before the 6.5% pay rise!

7%. Still in TPS, but not sure for how long.

@Lucia574 do you mind me asking where in the country you are and whether you’re prep or senior?

Just coming back to my old thread to see how the independent sector teachers are doing!! No pay rise at all for us this year and there have been a few admin staff redundancies and fixed term teaching staff not had contracts renewed but all the permanent teachers have kept jobs for now. We have partnered with a schools group which has helped too.
Anyone been a victim of the VAT etc?

We had 5% last year and another 3% this year. It does feel fair. BUT...I have just learnt that teachers now start on £32k!! Then UPS3 is around £50k. So after 30 years of hard work and experience, unless you are SLT, you will never earn more than £18k than you did right at the start of your career. That has blown my mind a bit tbh.

I have been teaching for 22 years and my full time salary would be £40k at my school. There is no progression now unless I become a deputy head, I’m already head of department. It is depressing!

That really is a shocking salary, if you consider a brand new ECT gets £32k now in the state sector.

Yes but it’s a small prep school… at the moment it’s worth it for job enjoyment and balance but I’d be curious to know about other prep schools’ salary scales!

I'm top of main scale and on about £52k FTE. I was really happy with it until I realised ECTs in the state sector start on £32k! I think it's the same problem in other sectors such as nursing, midwifery etc, that the top salary you will ever reach (unless you are in management) is actually not very much money these days. It costs £2000 minimum to rent a 2-bed flat round here.

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