Permanent and Fixed-Term Teachers’ Pay

Your gross fortnightly salary can be calculated by dividing your gross annual salary by 26.09.

If you are in receipt of any allowances, these will be listed separately on your payslip.  Your allowance(s) will also be paid at a gross fortnightly rate of gross annual allowance divided by 26.09.

Current salary scales and allowances are contained in DEY Circular 50/2025 (PDF)

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Yes, a Primary Teacher Appointment Form or a Primary Teacher Reappointment Form will need to be submitted to the DEY to notify them of your appointment and so that you can be paid.

These Forms can be submitted through the DEY’s customer service portal.

Teachers in permanent and fixed-term contract are paid for a 14-day fortnight – i.e. paid for Saturdays and Sundays.  Therefore, dividing your gross fortnightly salary by 14 will give your gross daily rate of pay.

Your salary will be calculated on a pro-rated basis.

A full-time teacher’s salary is based on 25 hours per week.   Therefore, a teacher with a 15-hour per week contract of employment will be paid a gross fortnightly salary which is three-fifths of that which is paid to a full-time teacher.

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A part-time fixed-term teacher can engage in substitute work in any school on the days they are not rostered to work, up to a maximum of 25 hours a week. This substitute work will be paid via the OLCS at the teacher’s personal daily substitute rate. See our Substitute Pay FAQ webpage here for more information on substitute pay. The substitute work will be listed separately on the teacher’s payslip.

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Fixed-term part-time teachers can be paid for up to full-time hours. However, a maximum of two days per week may be recorded through the OLCS, and the school will have to arrange for manual payment of additional days directly with payroll.

Yes, you will be paid for all school closure periods which fall during your period of employment.

Teachers who commence employment during the period 1st September to the first working day of November and remain in employment on a fixed-term contract for the full school year shall be paid until the 31^st August.

A fixed-term teacher who commences employment after the first working day in November and continues in a fixed-term capacity until 30th June will not get paid for the summer vacation unless s/he secures a further fixed-term (temporary) teaching post or a permanent post from the first working day of the following school year (normally 1st September). The retrospective holiday pay entitlement will then be calculated as follows:

If the teacher took up the fixed-term (temporary) post after the first working day in November but prior to 1st April and continues in employment as a fixed term (temporary) teacher until 30th June then to receive retrospective holiday pay for the summer period (which would not be payable until the new school year), the teacher must have secured a contract for the entire new school year or a contract that will not expire any earlier than one year after the start date of the original fixed term contract.

If the teacher took up a fixed-term (temporary) post after 1st April and continues in employment as a fixed-term (temporary) teacher until 30th June then retrospective payment of holiday pay for the summer period will be made one year on from the start date of the initial contract provided the teacher has served in either a fixed-term (temporary) post or permanent post for the entire 12 months period.

Salary is paid every second Thursday.  On any given Thursday, the relevant pay period is the 14-day period ending on the previous Monday.  For example, for a Thursday 25^th September pay date, the pay period is Tuesday 9^th – Monday 22^nd September. The payroll period will be listed at the top of your payslip.

No.  There are no circumstances in which a teacher can move down the pay scale.

Every 365 calendar days of employment in a permanent / fixed-term capacity is a year of service and equates to one increment.  Therefore, you should move up the scale on the same date each year.   Your increment date is determined by your own unique service history.  Therefore, your increment date may differ from the increment dates of your colleagues even if you qualified at the same time. Pay Scales and Incremental Progression page contain further information on incremental progression.

Yes, your progression up the salary scale will pause if you take a career break unless you take up work as a substitute teacher.

All job-sharing teachers receive payment for 12.5 hours per week regardless of the pattern actually worked.

No, your pattern of work has no effect on your PRSI contributions.  As all job-sharing teachers are paid 12.5 hours’ salary each week, you will pay a PRSI contribution each week.

Deputy principals who job-share must temporarily relinquish their post and allowance for the duration of the job-share arrangement.

 

An Assistant Principal I or Assistant Principal II may retain their Leadership and Management post allowance while job-sharing provided the employer decides that the roles and responsibilities of the post can be performed in full.  Where an employer decides that it is not possible for the job-sharing teacher to perform the full roles and responsibilities of the AP1 or AP2 post, an acting AP1 or AP2 may be appointed, and the allowance will be shared equally between the two teachers.  The allowance shall be restored to the actual post holder on resumption of full-time roles and responsibilities.

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The DEY has a customer service portal which can be accessed here. Select ‘Payroll’ from the first dropdown menu and select the most appropriate query category from the list of options.