Next on The Nation this morning the interviewer repeated this to the the Minister who made no denial:
That’s true, and we will get to those. We’re talking about the level of remuneration right now. Under your offer, how much will an average teacher get extra?
It depends, because through the Ministry of Education, the offer has been loaded up at the beginning-teacher salary rate. So a beginning teacher, for example, stands to gain almost 15 per cent increase over three years. Those more experienced teachers would get less under the offer that’s on the table at the moment.
And the majority of those teachers are the more experienced teachers. The average age is 57 or something like that. They’re higher into the pay scale. So do you know how much they’re going to get?
Again, it depends on where they’re at on the salary scale, but also about 40 per cent of primary school teachers are earning over the top of the salary scale because they have additional allowances or additional management units or whatever. So it’s quite difficult to put nice clean numbers on it, because the pay scale and the pay system for teachers is quite a complex one.
This morning I linked to data from 2008 which showed the average age was 44.5.
After further probing I have data from the OECD showing the average teacher age in 2015 was 45. What you would expect based on the 2008 number. At this rate, the average age won't be 57 until 2183 AD.... or thereabouts.
My guess is that The Nation presenter simply repeated what he read in the NZ Herald.
Like Chinese whispers.
2 comments:
Its simple maths Lindsay, if the average age was 44.5 in 2008 they must all be ten years older now so it must be 55.5 now - oh well near enough to 57, maybe some retired teachers came back and pushed it up. Sarc but it makes you wonder whether thats what someone has actually done.
Hi Lindsay, Andrew Dickens on ZB repeated the same "fact" yesterday. Maybe he does his research on the NZ Herald as well.
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