Salaries of teachers in the province: 35 thousand for 2.5 rates. Why so few?

Alexander Dybin

She wrote a post in the Texler, help community on the Vkontakte social network, which residents of the region usually use to complain to the authorities.

“Please help the teachers! For many years we have not received a salary increase, the rate is 15,100. I am a mother of two children, I am raising them alone, I have to work for two rates in order to somehow survive. I am at school from morning to evening, working in two shifts. And in the evenings, checking notebooks, preparing for lessons, reports, etc. When will teachers live with dignity, not earning 2-2.5 salaries and working hard? After all, all public sector employees were promoted more than once, but we didn’t,” wrote Anna Zavyalova.

As the teacher told Novye Izvestia, this situation is typical for all schools in the region, since salaries are set at the regional level. And it consists of a salary and a few small allowances.

“Everyone has such a rate of 15,100,” she said, “only the Ural coefficient is added, which is eaten up by the tax. In addition, Russian language teachers are paid 3% for checking notebooks, if there is a category, this is another 2-3 thousand. And, again, if there is, class management - another 5,000. This rate was last raised for us 9 years ago. Since then there has been no movement. I have many colleagues in different cities and the situation is much better there. For example, in the Samara region, teachers were given 10,000 rubles by the Day of Teachers, in the Krasnodar Territory the rate is different. Actually, that's why I decided to write to the governor's group, because it is in his power .

According to the teacher, she gets 36-37 thousand rubles a month. To do this, she works at more than two rates and leads a classroom management.

“All teachers are stewing in the same pot and everyone is unhappy with such a salary: the workload is growing, the work is getting harder and harder,” she says. - One rate - 18 lessons per week. I have 8-9 lessons every day. I arrive at nine in the morning and until half past seven at school, the whole evening is busy with notebooks, since there is no time to check them at school: the lessons go in a row, sometimes there is no time for lunch. Plus, you need to fill out an electronic journal, prepare for lessons, somewhere parents call, you need to allocate time for this too.

The salary situation is confirmed by Dmitry, a resident of Chelyabinsk, who takes his son to one of the most popular gymnasiums in the city.

“I have a first grader, we just started to dive into all this, discussed with other parents a gift for the teacher,” the man said, “I carefully asked the class if something specific might be needed. She replied that if we want to give a gift, then the best thing is an envelope. He says that the average salary is 35 thousand rubles. And this is far from the last school in the city.”

How much do teachers in the regions of Russia earn

Not so long ago, Rosstat published data on the salaries of teachers in Russia, of which, by the way, there are more than a million in the country. So the highest salaries were expected to be in the capital, St. Petersburg , the north, the oil regions and the Far East. In Moscow , teachers receive on average 125,800 rubles, Moscow region - about 80,000. In Yamal - more than 137,000 rubles, in Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug - 101,000. Magadan, Sakhalin regions, Chukotka Autonomous District and Kamchatka Territory - about 100,000 rubles. In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug - more than 120,000 rubles.

Modest salaries are more often noted in the regions of Central Russia, the Volga region and the Caucasus. For example, in Mordovia, Penza, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Kirov regions, average salaries do not exceed 40,000 rubles. In the Novgorod region - a little more than 33,000. In the North Caucasian republics such as Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chechnya, and others, a teacher can count on amounts of 25 to 36 thousand rubles. The leader in the federal district is the Stavropol Territory , where the amount of 36,700 rubles is fixed.

As a result, the average salary of a teacher in the country amounted to 57 thousand rubles.

Low pay leads to burnout

The low salaries of teachers are not a discovery. This is also being discussed at the federal level. In particular, there is an instruction to bring the incomes of school teachers and kindergarten teachers to the average earnings in the region, and for university teachers - to double the average earnings in the subject. A similar instruction several years ago was given to physicians, and it was not easy for the regions. More or less, they were able to successfully bring the salaries of doctors to the desired figures largely thanks to covid payments. In addition, for example, teachers of secondary specialized institutions, which also fall under the jurisdiction of the regions, have not yet been included in the instruction on teachers' salaries.

According to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region Olga Mukhometyarova , the increase in teachers' salaries is long overdue.

“The burden on people is very large and is constantly growing, but incomes are not, professional burnout sets in very quickly without motivation, so it is necessary to revise the salaries of teachers upward,” the deputy says, “the last few years, when adopting the regional budget, this topic was not touched. At the same time, teachers are in no hurry to complain, at least officially. In private conversations, of course, they tell everyone, but I don’t remember formalized appeals with which you can start working, at least with us.

What makes educators keep quiet about their situation? One of the teachers interviewed by Novye Izvestia noted that the teaching environment is made up of people of pre-retirement or retirement age who are either waiting for a pension and there is no point in changing anything, or already retired and, coupled with a small salary, life is easier.

“There are still advantages in the work of teachers, these are long holidays and length of service, earlier retirement, so people receive both a pension and a salary, both are small, but together they are already something,” the source says.

But this situation leads to the fact that young specialists begin to avoid the profession. Either they come to school for a couple of years, gain experience, or they immediately go past the school to tutoring and private educational projects. This is confirmed by the hero of our material, Anna Zavyalova from Chelyabinsk:

“There are practically no young people, if someone comes, then quickly leaves, often in the middle of the year,” she says, “a few remain at school. They can’t cope with the pace of work, it’s morally difficult, the children are not simple now. And the low wages just kills. We have an average age of the teaching staff of 50 plus, those who are waiting for a pension or are already retired and, as they say, earn extra money. And those who need to raise children, it’s hard for them, on weekends they work somewhere else, take tutoring, or, which is a shame, completely out of this area.”

Actually, tutoring is what helps teachers in many ways. But a vicious circle emerges. Low salaries wash out young people and class specialists from the teaching environment. This leads to a drop in the quality of teaching, and this stimulates the popularity of tutoring and even more pulls teachers from the school.