Since the " Teacher Law " originally stipulated that the average salary income level of teachers should not be lower than the average salary income level of local civil servants, two industries with different attributes have been connected together. Especially after the "Revision Draft of the Teachers Law" revised the original scope of teachers to primary and secondary school kindergarten teachers, the "not lower than" goal has been further strengthened. This was originally to emphasize the importance of education and teachers from this level.
Although the "no less than" goal has always existed before, it only existed in the "Teachers Law". Later, it was launched at the beginning of 2020 and was generally achieved nationwide before the end of 2020 due to the deadline stipulated in the national-level "three-year implementation" policy. Only then did the "no less than" goal truly take root. What needs to be done thereafter is to continuously monitor and hold accountable to prevent rebound and insufficient implementation.
After a full year of supervision and inspection in 2021, the Education Steering Committee of the State Council issued two consecutive reminder letters in January and May 2022, requiring all localities to list compulsory education teachers’ salaries as mandatory government expenditures, ensuring a long-term mechanism for compulsory education teachers’ salary guarantees and a linkage mechanism for salary income to be adjusted with the salary of local civil servants to further consolidate the results of compulsory education teachers’ salaries being “not less than” and ensure continued implementation.
After such a big fanfare, the "no less than" target has reached a consensus among teachers across the country, that is, the average salary income level of teachers is no longer lower than or higher than the average salary income of civil servants. Therefore, whenever teachers talk about the overall average salary income level, which is still low, some people will sneer and even propose to reverse the positions of the two subjects of the "no less than" target.
It can be seen from the two consecutive reminder letters issued by the State Council Education Steering Committee this year that there is a long way to go to achieve the "no less than" goal. The main reason is that many places have rebounded after the deadline and defaulted on teachers' salaries and various allowances. Even if they are not in arrears, many local teachers cannot enjoy performance bonuses, let alone enjoy various regional additional allowances for civil servants, housing supplementary provident fund, transportation subsidies, and lunch subsidies.
Yesterday, I saw a Liaoning teacher with 28 years of teaching experience in the 7th grade of senior level posted a message saying that he only found out that his total salary was 8,255 yuan after receiving a text message reminder that the housing provident fund payment base had changed. After deducting five insurances and one fund , his monthly check-in salary was 5,614 yuan. A netizen left a comment (as shown in the picture above), saying that the actual salary of a teacher with 28 years of teaching experience is indeed not high, and that his daughter-in-law exceeded it in the first month after being admitted to the civil service examination. "No less than" has a long way to go: a teacher with more than 28 years of teaching experience has passed the first month of being admitted to the civil service.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-