
Pay campaign
The NEU is campaigning for a pay increase of at least 9% for teachers and fair pay for all educators including support staff. Pay is a crucial part of our campaign to Value Education, Value Educators.
Advice on pay scales, pay progression and how to secure fair pay in your workplace.
The NEU is campaigning for fair pay for all teachers and support staff. This must include a fair pay increase in 2022 to make a start in restoring the real terms cuts to pay since 2010. Pay freezes and below-inflation pay increases are unjustified and unfair.
The latest news on support staff pay is here.
Following the publication of the STRB Report, the Government has confirmed its intention to freeze teacher pay in September 2021. You can see the STRB Report and the Government's response here. You can see the NEU press release on the announcement here. A joint union response has also been released.
Joint union advice on teacher pay in England from the NEU, NASUWT, ASCL, NAHT and Voice Community underlines the united view of teachers and school leaders on pay issues, including the adoption of pay scales for teachers and leaders.
School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
The Welsh Government published the Independent Welsh Pay Review Body (IWPRB) report in June. The NEU press release responding to the report can be found here.
The NEU is campaigning for a pay increase of at least 9% for teachers and fair pay for all educators including support staff. Pay is a crucial part of our campaign to Value Education, Value Educators.
Teacher pay scales in England and Wales.
The NEU pay calculator sets out school teacher pay rates for 2021-22 following the Government's decision to freeze teacher pay in England and the pay increase implemented in Wales.
This guide gives advice on how the pay progression system for classroom teachers works.
This checklist will help you prepare for meetings about recommendations to deny pay progression and appeals hearings after a decision has been taken to deny pay progression.
This guide gives advice to leaders on how their pay progression system works.
Pay and conditions agreement for support staff - most LA schools use the local government pay scales to pay their support staff in conjunction with National Joint Council (NJC) terms and conditions.
Specific advice for members about pay and conditions in sixth form colleges (the Red Book) and information about our campaigns in the sector.
Details of the joint trade unions pay claim and pay scales for members working in the further education sector.
Information on pay and conditions for Soulbury paid officers in England and Wales.
As private businesses outside the national collective bargaining structure in the maintained sector, independent schools have greater freedom to set their own terms and conditions of employment.
Pay and conditions for teachers in residential establishments are aligned with those in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD), the Burgundy Book and the Independent Pay Review Body in Wales.
This guidance summarises the position in respect of pay and conditions for unattached teachers employed by local authorities and there are separate STPCDs for England and Wales.
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Guidance on matters to consider in relation to pay and conditions when working in the independent sector.
The most common queries NEU members have on pay for leadership teachers in schools and academies.
This guidance sets out the obligations of employers and employees in relation to notice periods and notice pay.
This advice summarises how performance related pay progression works for teachers.
Advice on Teaching & Learning Responsibility Payments (TLRs) and other allowances such as Special Educational Needs allowances and Recruitment and Retention payments.