Private school teachers will be paid more than public colleagues

Private schools will have to be “transparent” with teachers about how many hours will spend extracurricular activities after the course, within a new salary transaction through which experienced staff will win their public school colleagues.

Graduate teachers will receive $ 90,000 compared to this year – with about 2000 USD than their public education counterparts, according to the payment tables published by Independent Education Union.

The Secretary of the Union, Carol Matthews, said in the agreement, which he encouraged to vote formally to support this month, schools should be clear about the time when teachers need to organize weekend and after school , such as music and sports.

“We have achieved a great discovery for the fact that the employers of the independent school will now be obliged to notify the teachers about the face -to -face loads, the extracurricular requirements and the reduction of the face -to -face time for teachers in management positions,” Matthews said .

“This information needs to be provided when the new teachers start from a school. Clearly, it was a problem in a significant number of schools -our members told us this. “

The teachers of the public school have earned a historical increase in wages of $ 10,000 in 2023, after years of worsening a deficiency of teachers and another increase in 2024 more than 3 % per year.

This week, the Government said that vacant professionals have reached a low level of four years due to increased wages. In the rural and regional parts of the state, the vacancies decreased to 654, a decrease of 47 % between 2022 and last year.

The interim executive director of the Association of Independent Schools in NSW, David Boury, said the changes will “clarify that schools inform teachers about the usual number of teaching times in front per week or per cycle.”