Where is the best place to work at school
In honor of the recently held Teacher's Day, we found out where it is best for Russian school teachers to work and live. On their holiday, all youth mentors preferred to talk about good things, however, some teachers’ aspirations were found out.
According to Rosstat, the average teacher salary in 2023 is 45,787 rubles on average in Russia. Its size, including “thematic” bonuses depend on the region where the person teaches.
So, for example, the monthly salary of a school teacher in the Chukotka and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs starts from 100 thousand rubles, and bonuses for “difficult conditions”, class management, etc. are added to this salary. Teachers in the capital receive the same amount, and these are the highest teacher salaries in the country.
The lowest pay for teachers in the North Caucasus (in the constituent entities of the North Caucasus Federal District) is a base salary of 30 thousand rubles. In other regions of the Russian Federation, the “average temperature in a hospital” in terms of teacher salaries is 40 thousand rubles. per month. True, in reality, many teachers do not agree with Rosstat.
“I teach algebra in grades 10-11,” shares a teacher from a Tyumen city school. – My salary is 30 thousand rubles a month, this includes class management. Despite the fact that the workload is forty hours a week, and these are only lessons, but also checking written homework and papers, preparing for classes, and class events. It’s a shame when they say that our average teacher salary in the region is 65 thousand rubles!
Indeed, on the eve of the professional holiday of school teachers, local educational authorities published statistics according to which the average Tyumen teacher receives from 65 thousand rubles. per month, and this does not include bonuses for classroom management and other additional loads.
Not everyone in the capital also agrees with the data on their salaries announced in statistical reports.
“I’ll give you an example,” says Alla Ivanovna, a former language arts teacher at one of the schools in the east of the capital. — You are a journalist. Let's say you have a salary of 50 thousand per month and a fee of 500 rubles per article. And they tell you that you get 100 thousand, without saying that for this you still need to write a hundred articles a month, and that’s more than three per day, including weekends. A lot also depends on the personality of the teacher himself and his relationship with management. If someone is not lazy to build relationships with his superiors so that he is thrown only into fertile areas, he will live better.
— Yes, in every way. They can, for example, give class leadership to a good class, with adequate parents helping the leader, or vice versa. There are plenty of ways to both support the teacher and to push him down. Everything is in the hands of the director and head teacher. But they can also be suppressed from above if they do not build useful connections there either. Vertical, in general. It's a shame that many teachers transfer the same attitude to children. They take out their own grievances on them.
— Then I don't mention tutoring, most schools don't encourage it. Although there is another form of the same thing. When a school teacher sends his underperforming student to his friend who tutors for money. Of course, for some gratitude on his part.
There is also a kind of “incentive bonus” — these are like incentive points for merits such as your student’s victory in the Olympiad, for working on weekends — that is, at extracurricular activities, traveling with children during the holidays, and so on. But the more teachers are active, the smaller the size of this “stimulation”. After all, it is paid from a fund with a fixed amount, and the size of this bonus is not precisely established.
Therefore, the more teachers are active, the lower the bonus for each. Again, the school management decides who to reward with a “five”, where each point is worth 300 rubles, and who with a “four”, where each point is 100 rubles. Well, you can also enlist in the “red tent” — these are nomadic schools in the Far North for the children of nomads. They pay very well there, but you have to move around with the school. But, it seems to me, the conditions there will ruin your health before you get your first increased salary.
This is, perhaps, the general opinion of all Russian teachers surveyed: you can earn more than 100 thousand a month if you work around the clock , leaving neither time nor energy for other areas of life except work. But there is an answer to how a school teacher can live well in Rus', and it’s not just tutoring.
“My friend went to teach Russian children in Delhi, India,” says a teacher of Russian and literature from a Volgograd secondary school. — And I’m very pleased! Judge for yourself: housing is free on the territory of the embassy, the school is well equipped, the classes are normal, since there are many Russian organizations in India and all the children go to the Russian school at the embassy. Payment is partly in local currency for living expenses, and the other part in rubles on a house card, so that there is a reserve upon return. You can bring your family to your home, but they will have to buy tickets at their own expense.
And most importantly, grateful work there! Far from their homeland, as a rule, Russian parents begin to be more sensitive to the teacher and his requests.
This opinion is more popular today than ever among Russian teachers: many of them are not averse to “recruiting” to teach far from home, and The direction of the “teacher’s dream” today is the countries of Africa, where, according to the president’s order, new Russian representative offices will be opened, and with them Russian schools where teachers will be needed.