Pay progression
Pay progression and how it works
Pay toolkit
Use our pay toolkit to secure pay progression, by taking collective action or by pursuing and winning appeals against decisions that individual teachers should not progress.
Advice
Threshold progression and the upper pay range
The Upper Pay Range is a pay range offering significantly higher pay than the main pay range. This advice helps explain progression to the Upper Pay Range.
Pay progression for teachers
This advice summarises how performance related pay progression works for teachers.
Pay appeals
Advice on identifying the grounds for a pay appeal and on how you might run a successful one.
School pay policies
All schools, including academies, should have a pay policy which sets out how decisions are taken on pay matters including pay assessments, pay progression, discretionary payments, appeals etc.
NEU pay policy checklist
This checklist should be used alongside the National Education Union model policy to help you negotiate a policy acceptable to the NEU.
Pay model policy
This model pay policy will help to recruit, retain and motivate teachers, provide the basis for sound financial and personnel planning and minimise the risk of grievance and discrimination. It is consistent and compliant with the STPCD and the NEU pay policy checklist.
Pay appeals - checklist
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.
Pay appeals - model letters
These model letters 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.
Pay progression for school leaders
This guide gives advice to leaders on how their pay progression system works.
Winning pay appeals
This guide gives advice on securing pay progression by persuading governors not to accept a recommendation to deny pay progression or by appealing successfully against a decision to deny progression.
Securing pay progression
This is a guide on steering a course through your appraisal and the pay decision process to ensure that you can secure pay progression.
Understanding pay progression
This guide gives advice on how the pay progression system for classroom teachers works.
Winning an acceptable pay policy
This guide explains how to challenge unfair pay policies and secure a fair pay policy in your school.
Press release
Pay survey results 2020
Teacher pay survey shows that 63% of teachers have considered leaving the profession due to pay concerns.
Teachers’ pay being cut due to lack of annual pay rises and performance related pay progression
Teachers’ pay continues to be cut because schools are increasingly failing to give them cost of living increases as well as denying them pay progression, the National Education Union’s annual national pay survey shows.