In 1996 I worked for Oxfordshire County Council Education Department, primarily as a secretary but also updating teachers' pay records for pension purposes. (Special DfEE database that no one else could apparently understand even though I thought it was easypeasy.)
The average salary of a teacher then was about 5K more than I was being paid as a non-graduate secretary (and I was temp-to-perm, originally paid through a temping agency, so what I was worth to the department was about 40% more than I was paid). The majority of teachers were on about 2K more than I was. This is just before all the 'incentives' started (a friend now gets an extra 2Kpa for being an IT specialist - she teaches five-year-olds who don't care a whit about IT but never mind).
I once wanted to go into teaching. Never again after working there.
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The average salary of a teacher then was about 5K more than I was being paid as a non-graduate secretary (and I was temp-to-perm, originally paid through a temping agency, so what I was worth to the department was about 40% more than I was paid). The majority of teachers were on about 2K more than I was. This is just before all the 'incentives' started (a friend now gets an extra 2Kpa for being an IT specialist - she teaches five-year-olds who don't care a whit about IT but never mind).
I once wanted to go into teaching. Never again after working there.