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A head teacher earned over £200,000 in basic salary, bonuses and backdated payments in 2009/10. Mr Elms, who runs a school of 400 pupils, was paid a basic salary of £82,714 last year.But he also received more than £100,000 - £51,957 of which was backdated pay for 2008/09 - for work on a programme introduced by the Labour government to tackle underachievement in disadvantaged areas.
He was also paid £10,000 in overtime for 2009/10, and a further £9,317 for overtime in 2008/09.
An Ofsted report described the head teacher's leadership as "outstanding".
The story is here
So should this outstanding head teacher have got this well rewarded ? Thoughts ?
It's a lot of money, though sounds like £50k of it is back pay, so more like £150k per year, and it sounds like everyone thinks he's doing a good job.
I'd have more doubts about the pay the PM is getting 😆
As it's a coalition government, does the PM have to share his salary now with Nick Clegg?
The point has already been made that some of this is back payment, some is two years worth of overtime, some for doing a second job on the underachievement programme. Sounds like he works quite hard and does a good job.
I can't help thinking that there might be a perception that 'teachers' should be on low wages and therefore this is wrong. Personally, I don't see why a good teacher shouldn't be paid as much as (if not more than) a plastic surgeon. Although I'm not sure that £200k isn't a bit much for both jobs.
Surely it is just the Union's Raison d'etre.
They will not stoke up emotions and get people joining if they do not shout about the pay differences. What the story does not say is how long the school was considered poor/bad before he took over, how he has changed it and the morale of staff and pupils.
His basic salary without the back pay is around the same that a lot of headteachers get working at difficult schools.
The salary of the union chiefs' are not that much less than the head teacher - are they being overpaid?
The salary of the union chiefs' are not that much less than the head teacher - are they being overpaid?
If that's the case, then yes, I'd say they are overpaid (the unions chiefs that is)
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