Will some teachers receive a 15.9% pay rise?

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has claimed that "almost each recently experienced teacher and 40% of experienced teachers volition really get wage rises up to 15.9%".

Ms Keegan was asked connected BBC Breakfast astir teacher wage increases successful England.

In July 2022, the authorities announced that it had accepted the School Teachers' Review Body's (STRB) recommendations connected teacher pay.

The wage increases - which came into effect successful September 2022 - varied with little experienced teachers getting larger percent increases.

Teachers successful England were offered an mean wage emergence of 6%.

Ms Keegan referred to "newly experienced teachers", but that's not an authoritative class applied to staff.

The wage set for qualified teachers successful England with the slightest acquisition is M1. They volition spot their wage spell up 15.9% arsenic they determination up to the adjacent set M2 successful 2022-23 (outside London) which you would expect to hap to astir each of them aft the archetypal year.

This fig combines the STRB's wage emergence and besides wage progression components.

So she's close astir this circumstantial radical of teachers who made up astir 5% of teachers successful England successful 2022-23.

Teachers astatine this wage set moving successful London volition spot their wage spell up by a spot little - astir 14%.

But the acquisition caput went connected to speech astir experienced teachers.

She said 40% of them would beryllium getting "up to 15.9%", but successful information nary of them volition beryllium getting that overmuch - they volition beryllium getting 9% oregon 10% if they determination up a wage set this year.

We asked the Department for Education (DfE) astir the grounds for her assertion and were told that the little experienced teachers who could get 15.9% and the 40% of experienced teachers who could get 9% oregon 10% are so abstracted groups.

Mary Bousted - associated wide caput of the National Education Union (NEU) - spoke connected Radio 4 connected 9 January astir however overmuch teachers' salaries had fallen aft adjusting for rising prices, saying: "Teachers person mislaid 24% of their wage successful existent presumption since 2010."

The national aboriginal told our colleagues astatine More oregon Less that she had mis-spoken and really meant to accidental 23%.

It recovered that betwixt 2010 and 2022, taking into relationship rising prices, the salaries for the astir experienced and elder teachers had fallen 13%, for mediate earners it was betwixt 9% and 10% and that starting salaries person fallen 5%. The wide mean was 11%.

More oregon Less recovered that determination were 2 cardinal differences betwixt the calculations by the NEU and the IFS.

The archetypal is that the NEU concentrated connected experienced teachers due to the fact that that is the largest group, portion the IFS looked astatine each teachers.

But also, the IFS fig was based connected CPIH, which is the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) header fig for inflation. The NEU utilized RPI, which is mostly higher. While the ONS calculates RPI, it said successful 2018: "we bash not deliberation it is simply a bully measurement of ostentation and discourage its use".

Nonetheless, it's wide that teachers' wage has fallen considerably since 2010 aft adjusting for rising prices.