The data shows that male classroom teachers received an average salary of £37,885 compared with £36,985 for their female peers. And for headteachers, the average salary for men was £77,362, compared with £68,870 for women.
Male teachers made up less than a quarter of the total headcount in schools – there were 121,356, which was 24.2 per cent of all teachers.
For headteachers, a higher proportion were men (32.7 per cent, a headcount of 7,335), while for classroom teachers it was 23.1 per cent (99,124). This is similar to previous years.
Main Findings:
- In 2019, the average FTE salary for all teachers in state-funded schools was £40,537 per annum – an increase of over £1,000 compared with 2018.
- The average FTE salary for all full and part-time classroom teachers in all state funded schools was £37,192.
- Salaries are higher for leadership teachers (excluding headteachers), the average salary in 2019 being £54,911.
- The average salary for a headteacher was £71,655 in 2019.
Average salaries are higher for male teachers across all grades:
- For male classroom teachers the average salary was £37,885 compared to £36,985 for female.
- For headteachers the average salary for males was £77,362 compared to £68,870 for females.
Average salaries vary by type of school:
- The average salary of a nursery and primary classroom teacher was £35,673
- The average salary of a secondary classroom teacher was £38,674
- The average salary of a special school classroom teacher was £37,638.
- Average salaries for classroom and other leadership teachers are higher on average in LA maintained schools than academies. The average salary for headteachers is however, higher in academies than in LA maintained schools.
- Of the teachers who qualified in 2018, 85.4% are still in service one year after qualification. This retention rate is slightly higher than the previous year when the one-year retention rate was 85.1%. In general, one-year retention rates have declined slightly in each year since 2011, with this year being the first increase.
- Of the teachers who qualified in 2014, 67.4% are still in service after 5 years. This is lower than the five-year retention rate seen in the previous year, when the figure was 68.0%.
- Of the 96.8% of teachers for whom we hold qualifications data, the majority (98.8%) hold qualifications at degree level or higher - this includes those with a first degree or higher, a Bachelor of Education degree or a Postgraduate Certificate of Education. There were 1,721 teachers holding a non-UK qualification, 0.4% of the total.
- In 2019, 64.7% of teaching hours at Key Stage 3 were spent teaching the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects of mathematics and English, all sciences (including computer science), history, geography and all modern languages. At Key Stage 4 this rose to 67.8%.
- In total, 68.8% of all secondary teachers taught at least one EBacc subject, with 87.8% of all hours taught in EBacc subjects being taught by a teacher with a relevant post A level qualification.
- For the individual EBacc subjects, the majority of hours taught are taught by a teacher who holds a relevant post A level qualification in the subject they are teaching. The exception to this is computing, where in 2019 47.3% of hours were taught by a teacher with a relevant post A level qualification, the same as in 2018.
- In 2019, 35.3% of teaching hours at Key Stage 3 were spent teaching non EBacc subjects, including arts subjects, design and technology, religious education and physical education. At Key Stage 4 this decreased to 32.2%. These figures are slightly lower than in 2018.
- In 2019, a third of all teachers (166,426) were aged between 30 and 39. Only 5.2% were under 25 (26,290) and 2.6% over 60 (12,933).
- The headcount of male teachers in all state-funded schools was 121,356 which was 24.2% of all teachers. For headteachers, a higher proportion were male (32.7%, a headcount of 7,335), while for classroom teachers it was 23.1% (99,124). This is similar to previous years.
- There were 66,039 teachers, or 14.3% of all teachers who described themselves as being in a minority ethnic group* (where ethnicity information had been provided). This is up from 11.2% of all teachers in 2010.
- Between 2011 and 2019 the percentage of teachers taking sickness absence has fallen from 55.8% to 54.0% in 2018/19.
- The teacher sickness absence rate in 2018/19 was 4.1 days per teacher, an increase from 4.0 in 2017/18.
- Of those teachers taking sickness absence, the average number of days taken has fallen, from an average of 8.2 days in 2010/11 to 7.5 days in 2018/19.
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