Teachers Salary in Kenya: At least 20,000 teachers are set to be promoted to managerial grades. Also, some 54,000 teachers have attained promotion qualifications after going back to school to get higher academic qualifications.
At the same time teachers holding acting positions will also be confirmed to formally hold the positions they have been sitting in for.
These promotions and confirmations will see teachers start earning higher salaries in their new roles.
The teachers who are set to benefit from the promotion are those in the job group L, M, and N but who have been stagnating in one position for donkey years.
The teachers who are set to be promoted include senior teachers, deputy principals and principals.
“The total number of teachers in secondary schools and colleges currently stands at 100,000,” says a report in the Daily Nation.
The report further says that teachers in job group L will be promoted to M while those in group M will move to group N. Those in Job Group L holding administrative grade C5 currently take home between Sh. 49,912 and Sh. 55,644.
“Starting July this year, their salaries will increase to between Sh. 55,909 and Sh. 58,171 when the third phase of their CBA is implemented. Senior headteacher, senior master II and deputy principal IV, who all fall in job group M, will also reap big during the promotions. They currently take home between Sh. 66,177 and Sh. 80,242 but come July, their salaries will rise to between Sh. 77,840 and Sh. 82,717,” says the report.
“Principals of secondary schools currently in job group M and N and who earn between Sh. 77,840 and Sh. 90,612 will also have their salaries raised to between Sh. 93,850 and Sh. 102,807.”
In the sane vein, adds the report, teachers serving in job group N will be promoted to job group P, which covers senior principals taking home between Sh. 99,730 and Sh. 114,632 per month. Their current administrative grade is D3.