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School teachers' pay 2024

This page brings together all the information you will need in relation to school teachers’ pay in 2024/25. The LGA provides the secretariat for NEOST (National Employers Organisation for School Teachers).

As detailed in a ministerial statement, the Secretary of State accepted the STRB’s recommendations for the 2024 teacher pay award in full. The headlines are:

  • a 5.5 per cent uplift to all pay points and allowances for both teachers and leaders applicable from 1 September 2024. You can find the proposed pay values for each of the pay ranges in the LGA pay reference circular
  • almost £1.1 billion in additional funding to cover the average estimated cost of the 2024/25 pay award for both teaching and support staff.  Providing £945 million for mainstream schools, £140 million for high needs, and £11 million for centrally employed teachers.

STPCD 2024 changes include:

  • as anticipated, the removal of the performance related pay requirement from 1 September 2024
  • the department has published revised appraisal, capability and Managing Teachers Pay non-statutory guidance documents
  • moving the list of administrative tasks from an annex in Section 3 (guidance) to an annex in Section 2 (main body of STPCD)
  • clarifying that "Where reasonable appropriate and agreed by both the individual teacher and the relevant body, PPA can be taken in one weekly unit and it can be taken away from the school site."

NEOST response back to Government

As part of the NEOST secretarial role, the LGA undertook a survey with local authorities and academy trusts which formed the basis of employers' views presented in the NEOST response to the government’s consultation on the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) 34th Report and the draft School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) 2024.  The consultation response and all relevant documents can be found under the NEOST consultation response folder below.

Timeline

For draft STPCD to become final STPCD 2024:

  • 18 October 2024: STPCD 2024 Teachers Pay Order was laid in Parliament
  • 18 October – 7 November 2024: 21-day praying period (this allowed MPs to raise any objections on the Teachers' Pay Order)
  • 8 November 2024: the Praying period ended in Parliament, which is the formal end of the process
  • pay award backdated to 1 September 2024.

National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers (NEOST)

NEOST is the statutory recognised national employer representative body for school teachers. The LGA provides the Secretariat to NEOST, which represents education authorities and other employers of school teachers in maintained schools in England and Wales. Find out more about NEOST