Teacher Wages To Rise 3.5% In 2016
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
Teachers’ wages will rise by 3.5% in September this year based on the teacher career model, László Palkovics, the public education state secretary, said. The wage increase means teachers will receive between 3,000 forints (EUR 10) and 15,000 (EUR 48) forints more each month depending on seniority, Palkovics said, noting that the government has continuously increased teacher’s wages since 2013.
Next year the government will spend an additional 45 billion forints on raising teacher’s wages, bringing the total amount spent on wage hikes for teachers since 2013 to 323 billion forints, he said.
Teaching assistants will be given 35,000 forint bonuses on two occasions this year and an average wage increase of 10% in 2017, he added.
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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