Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Lol, for elite admin leadership scheme. Their salary is superscale.
My ex-boss was from such scheme in MOF.
Was a full director at age of 32 (female) already.

Lol, Our next PM was a CE of EMA at age of 36.
Not withstanding he served 2 years of NS.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

$4.6K is too low for 5 YOE?

I think minimum is $5K

It’s true. Female non scholar. I’m at there……….

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It’s true. Female non scholar. I’m at there……….

Congrats for crossing the $5k mark!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

In my 9th year of teaching.

Got my geo 4 in 2018 and geo 5 this year. Not sure which school you're at, but this seems normal in my jc. My cohort peers are either geo 4 or 5.

For those who mentioned "(n)th year of teaching", does that include the time spent on contract teaching and in NIE?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

That lady probably is a outlier.
With 5 YOE, the 25% percentile would make at least $5K+
The 75% Percentile would make at least $6K+

The top 0.0001% probably been absorbed into the Elite Admin leadership service.
Likely to make $8K+ at 5 YOE.

Wrong. You are out of touch with the present-day situation. The past 3 years (2020, 2021 and 2022) merit increments and promotion increments have been really low compared to just the years before. It disproportionately affects younger officers at lower subgrades, whereas GEO5 teachers who are already drawing over 6.5k+ or 7k+ will barely notice the difference.

Furthermore, starting salary points have not moved much since 2015, especially for graduate entrants, so all in all the younger teachers are getting shafted.

There ARE definitely 5 YOE teachers who have not done anything wrong, but are still drawing below 5k gross.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

For those who mentioned "(n)th year of teaching", does that include the time spent on contract teaching and in NIE?

Don't know about others but I count it by connect plan year.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Don't know about others but I count it by connect plan year.

It’s untrained plus after officially appointed in school.
Excluding NIE and practicum.
For the new batches for 16-month PGDE, I’m not sure

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Congrats for crossing the $5k mark!

No. I mean I’m at the 4.6k and it is true 5 years non scholar female at 4.6k.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How many years in service do people usually hit geo 3 to geo 4? on average

Got it in less than 3 years..no scholar..2nd lower honours from NIE

2015 - GEO2
2016 - GEO 2, C
2017 - GEO 2, B
2018 - Promoted GEO 3 in April, B
2019 - GEO 3, B (CEP Raised)
2020 - Promoted GEO 4 in April (heard that principal pushed for the promotion as she wanted to put me up for SH interview) Passed interview in Oct/ Nov, can’t remember.
2021 - Appointed SH. Didn’t do internal covering. Grade B
2022 - Grade B

Been getting Bs. Non-graduate, non scholar, just a lot of love for teaching and the children.