Teachers’ salaries start to increase in Europe

In 2013/2014, teachers saw their salaries increase in 16 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Austria, Slovakia, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway, Macedonia, Turkey) compared with the previous school year, according to a Eurydice report carried out for the European Commission. The rises were chiefly due to salary reforms and adjustments to the cost of living. The survey covers teachers and school heads at pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary level. In about half of the 33 European countries featured in the report, teachers’ purchasing power1 in 2014 is still below the 2009 level, the European Commission announced.