13th May 2024
Please see the update provided below from DE in relation to Teachers’ Pay Award Implementation:
“The Department is currently processing the 3-year agreement of the Teachers’ Pay Awards for year’s 2021, 2022, 2023 which will be completed in 2 stages for all current teachers;
- Permanent teachers will be placed on their new September 2023 rate of pay from May 2024 and will receive their arrears from the implementation of the current payroll system, i.e. November 2023. Permanent teachers will then receive their arrears from the former payroll system which will be processed with the aim of paying the majority in the June 2024 payroll.
- Supply teachers will be placed on their new September 2023 rate of pay from June 2024 and will receive their arrears from the implementation of the current payroll system, i.e. February 2024. Temporary teachers will also receive their arrears from the former payroll system, which will be processed with the aim of paying the majority in the July 2024 payroll.
Please note due to the time-pressures and constraints of processing this 3 year pay award, the processing of some normal correspondence may be delayed until after pay award is completed, unless this adversely affects current pay. Please be aware also that the Teachers Pay Team is extremely busy so it would be appreciated if teachers contact the Team by email rather than phone calls and note that there may be some delay in dealing with non-urgent queries.”
Agreement Documents are accessible via the following link: Teachers’ Pay Agreement 2021- 2023 | Department of Education (education-ni.gov.uk)