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CYPRUS IS one of only three countries, along with Romania and Portugal, where its teachers have the potential to double their basic salaries in the course of their career, according to a report by the European Commission’s Eurydice Network for 2009 and 2010.
According to the report, in these countries it takes more than 20 years to progress to the top salary scale.
Annual gross salaries of full time fully qualified teachers in public schools in Cyprus for all levels of teaching stands at a minimum of €23,646 and a maximum of €51,772, taking around 22 years for a teacher to attain maximum salary.
A secondary school head on the maximum salary scale earns over €63,000 in Cyprus.
Although the Cypriot teachers’ salaries are in line with most of their European counterparts, in comparison to per capita salaries in the private sector in Cyprus, they come in one and a half times higher. Only Portugal had a higher ratio in relation to per capita income.
Teachers in primary education in Denmark, Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway will not get more than a 30 per cent salary increase during their professional career.
Despite the potential to double their salaries teachers in Cyprus, unlike the majority of EU countries, do not receive salary allowances and complimentary payments. These include additional benefits covering higher qualifications, incentives for student results, overtime and extracurricular activities.
Public school teachers unions OELMEK and POED only recently declared that they would not take part in the October 28 parade as they felt that neither the state nor society appreciated their efforts and wide-ranging duties. They also voiced their members’ intentions to abstain from any extra curricular activities in a bid to highlight the wider parameters of the teaching parameters.
