I see. how is your CEP determined? Is it dependent on your annual Performance Grading? So you'll need to get majority Bs in the past few years to qualify? By supt, do you mean the principal or just your reporting officer? Thanks lots for the detailed reply!

Hey guys, I have been in the service for 5 years. I got promoted to geo3 after two years and have been in this grade since. I have been getting C all this while, despite working my life away and planning successful and engaging department and level events. Didn't even managed to get a c+ after all this work. Is this normal or am I at a slower progression rate? How long does it usually take for a geo3 to move up to geo4?

CEP is your Current Estimated Potential which is the position you would attain by the time you retire. You will not know your CEP as it is determined by the ranking panel in your schools. Some schools are afraid of raising the CEP of their officers because there are repercussions. If an officer's CEP is raised and given more opportunities and he/she does not perform up to expectations, the ranking panel will need to drop his/her CEP. When one's CEP is being dropped, promotion will halt as well. (halt for how many years, I am not sure. HR has a formula though)

For many schools, the default CEP for teachers is at the HOD level. But to go into HQ, your CEP cannot be at the HOD level. It needs to be higher, say at the P level. This means the ranking panel in your school must agree to raise your CEP. Reason being, there is no reason HQ would want to develop an officer whose CEP is at HOD level, given that there are so many teachers with similar CEP.

CEP, together with favorable performance grade will result in faster promotion.

Supt = superintendent which is the RO of your P and VP. For my HQ posting, my P's recommendation needs to be endorsed by my supt before I go for my tea session.

Are u a male or female? For some reason females are promoted slower...

Can anyone share based on current pay level, what is the max salary and rank a teacher can progress to assuming I just want to concentrate on teaching and not interested in things like HOD or VP?

I am interested in teaching (with the usual admin & customer service) only and honestly not going to play office politics to be VP or Principal. But at the same time I also need to weigh my options compared to the private sector in terms of future pay progression.

Thanks.

Eh... from my experience, default CEP for new officers is to cap at GEO5 (teacher level). One increase will only bring you to the SH/LH level... which I think suffices for you to get a HQ posting (but no experience as a RO here, so just guessing).

Salary scales
 

Someone shared this awhile ago - not sure if it's been updated since.

p.s. for teachers without any official appointments, salary grade will cap at GEO5.

GEO1 (Untrained): ? (non-graduates start here)
GEO (Trained): 1600 - 2730
GEO2 (Untrained): 2000-4340 (graduates start here)
GEO2 (Trained): 2538-4500
GEO3: 3515 -5616
GEO4: 4545-7271
GEO5: 4903-7845 (max salary grade for standard teacher)
SEO1: 5651-9064 (min. LH/SH/ST)
SEO2: 7236-10766 (min. HOD/LT)
SEO3: 8748-11232 (+9%?) (min. HOD/MT)

Not too sure if this is true. There are many HQ postings and I don’t think all the postings requires one to have a CEP of VP or P. The number of HQ postings far exceeds the number of schools we have. So I don’t think those who wants to go HQ must have CEP of VP/P

if you look annual remuneration package, that includes the bonuses (year-end, mid-year, performance bonus and 13th mth) it's close to 4-5months already.

starting (post NIE) salary from 3500 onwards (depending if served NS), it's very decent i have to say...

I guess the person wasn’t referring to starting salary. Perhaps it is the stagnant salary of those who stayed for 5-10 years. Salary hovers abt 5-6k when peers in private sector are getting 7-8k.