The salaries of mid-career teachers in France remain significantly lower than those of the average of the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), underlines the report annual Views on education, released Monday, October 3.
In France, the salaries of teachers with fifteen years of experience and the most widespread qualifications (a Capes) reached, for the first cycle of secondary school (middle school), the equivalent of 43,133 dollars (44,157 euros) in 2021, 16% less than the OECD average ($51,246), according to the OECD report.
The gap is a little greater in elementary school: the annual statutory salary of teachers with fifteen years of experience there remains equivalent to 40,043 dollars, i.e. 19% less than the OECD average (49,245 dollars), despite a 4% increase between 2015 and 2019.
“We must make the teaching profession more attractive”underlined, during a press conference, the Secretary General of the OECD, Mathias Cormann.
“France is providing answers, and we welcome the minister’s announcement to increase the minimum salary for teachers to 2,000 euros per month from next September. »
The progression of the grid under discussion
Consultations around teacher salaries start from this Monday in France with the social partners. “OECD studies show that France can do bettercommented during the press conference, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye. We know it and we react. »
Asked about possible increases in remuneration for teachers with more than fifteen years of seniority, Pap Ndiaye specified that “the bulk of the increase” expected would be “on career beginnings and mid-points”. “The progression of the grid will be discussed from this afternoon [lundi] with trade unions”he said.
“For career purposes, it will above all be a question of facilitating the transition to the hors classe and the exceptional class, so that a slightly larger number of teachers can also benefit from the end of their careers. ‘increases’he continued.
According to the OECD, it takes thirty-five years of experience for teachers in France to go from starting salary to the highest salary, compared to twenty-six years on average in OECD countries.
Salaries remain below those of the OECD average at each stage of the career, at all levels of education except in kindergarten, the report adds, specifying that the gap is greater with ten and fifteen years of employment. experience only at the beginning or at the end of a career.