Teachers are more than £4,000 worse off after a decade of Tory cuts to public sector pay, new analysis shows. Since 2010, teachers and school leaders, alongside other public sector workers, have seen their pay capped or frozen altogether.
Analysis of House of Commons Library data by Labour found the average salaries of classroom teachers were £4,478 lower in 2019 compared to 2010 if pay had risen in line with inflation.
Head teachers lost out by an average of £2,500 a year over the same period. Some 94% of teachers are also facing a real terms pay cut after Rishi Sunak opted to freeze public sector pay for those earning more than £24,000.
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