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Pay scales for teachers and leaders in England from September 2020

The new teacher and school leadership pay rates for 2020-21 have been confirmed by the Department for Education.

In July, the DfE announced salaries for new teachers would rise by 5.5 per cent this year year, with the upper and lower boundaries of the pay ranges for all other teachers to rise by 2.75 per cent

While local authority-maintained schools are required to follow these pay scales, academies and free schools are allowed to set their own scales.

Here are the new pay rates, effective from September 1 2020. Please note that for the first time from this year, these apply only to England, rather than to England and Wales.

 

Classroom teachers

 

Headteachers and school leaders

 

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Classroom teachers

England excl London
Unqualified teacher pay range 2019 2020
Minimum 17,682 18,169
Maximum 27,965 28,735
Main pay range
Minimum 24,373 25,714
Maximum 35,971 36,961
Upper pay range
Minimum 37,654 38,690
Maximum 40,490 41,604
Leading practitioner pay range
Minimum 41,267 42,402
Maximum 62,735 64,461
Fringe area
Unqualified teacher pay range 2019 2020
Minimum 18,844 19,363
Maximum 29,123 29,924
Main pay range
Minimum 25,543 26,948
Maximum 37,152 38,174
Upper pay range
Minimum 38,797 39,864
Maximum 41,635 42,780
Leading practitioner pay range
Minimum 42,403 43,570
Maximum 63,874 65,631
Outer London area
Unqualified teacher pay range 2019 2020
Minimum 21,004 21,582
Maximum 31,290 32,151
Main pay range
Minimum 28,355 29,915
Maximum 40,035 41,136
Upper pay range
Minimum 41,419 42,559
Maximum 44,541 45,766
Leading practitioner pay range
Minimum 44,541 45,766
Maximum 66,012 67,828
Inner London area
Unqualified teacher pay range 2019 2020
Minimum 22,237 22,849
Maximum 32,515 33,410
Main pay range
Minimum 30,480 32,157
Maximum 41,483 42,624
Upper pay range
Minimum 45,713 46,971
Maximum 49,571 50,935
Leading practitioner pay range
Minimum 49,065 50,415
Maximum 70,540 72,480

 

 

Headteachers and school leaders

England excl London
2019 2020
Leadership minimum 41,065 42,195
Headteacher group 2019 2020
1 46,457 – 61,808 47,735 – 63,508
2 48,808 – 66,517 50,151 – 68,347
3 52,643 – 71,590 54,091 – 73,559
4 56,579 – 77,048 58,135 – 79,167
5 62,426 – 84,976 64,143 – 87,313
6 67,183 – 93,732 69,031 – 96,310
7 72,306 – 103,334 74,295 – 106,176
8 79,748 – 114,060 81,942 – 117,197
Fringe area
2019 2020
Leadership minimum 42,195 43,356
Headteacher group 2019 2020
1 47,592 – 62,932 48,901 – 64,663
2 49,940 – 67,658 51,314 – 69,509
3 53,775 – 72,718 55,254 – 74,718
4 57,714 – 78,170 59,302 – 80,320
5 63,562 – 86,104 65,310 – 88,472
6 68,325 – 94,859 70,204 – 97,468
7 73,446 – 104,455 75,466 – 107,328
8 80,880 – 115,188 83,105 – 118,356
Outer London
2019 2020
Leadership minimum 44,323 45,542
Headteacher group 2019 2020
1 49,714 – 65,038 51,082 – 66,827
2 52,067 – 69,747 53,499 – 71,666
3 55,898 – 74,816 57,436 – 76,874
4 59,833 – 80,272 61,479 – 82,480
5 65,689 – 88,206 67,496 – 90,632
6 70,445 – 96,957 72,383 – 99,624
7 75,564 – 106,558 77,643 – 109,489
8 83,007 – 117,287 85,290 – 120,513
Inner London
2019 2020
Leadership minimum 48,824 50,167
Headteacher group 2019 2020
1 54,223 – 69,499 55,715 – 71,411
2 56,576 – 74,208 58,132 – 76,249
3 60,404 – 79,280 62,066 – 81,461
4 64,344 – 85,731 66,114 – 87,062
5 70,194 – 92,667 72,125 – 95,216
6 74,949 – 101,421 77,011 – 104,211
7 80,074 – 111,020 82,277 – 114,074
8 87,512 – 121,749 89,919 – 125,098

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2 Comments

  1. Claire Flux

    As a teacher in a local authority school we have been told that our council is still negotiating this payrise (apparently this is the case nationally), in other words it seems unlikely we will actually receive it. This is the problem when government announces these things, people assume its true when actually it’s not the whole story.

  2. ste holmes

    whatever the pay divided by the hours required barely reach minimum wage. The entire state education system is shot. If you want anything like a decent education for your kids and can afford it,go private. Saying this as a parent of state educated children btw.