Teacher salaries: Pap Ndiaye promises at least 2000 euros net for beginner teachers from 2023

It was a promise from Emmanuel Macron and his former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Pap Ndiaye, the new tenant of Rue de Grenelle, confirms this in an interview with Parisian-Today in France published this Saturday, June 25: from 2023, teachers at the start of their career will earn at least 2000 euros net.

Today, the salary of a trainee teacher (in the first year of teaching) is close to 1500 euros, and that of a holder – the first year – is around 1800 euros.

The objective of this salary increase, desired for years by all union representatives, is to make more attractive a profession that is struggling to attract young people, readily admits the minister.

In Île-de-France alone, 2,000 positions will be vacant in the first degree in September, due to a lack of candidates in the competitions.

“It will bring in young people, but some will also slam the door”

So, 2000 euros, is it enough to bring candidates to the blackboard?

The answer from the teachers is invariably the same: good… but can do better.

“If it concerns the holders, it is an effort of 150 euros per month.

It's good.

But if this does not concern trainee teachers, so first year, it is a concern: they earn 1.1 times the minimum wage

even if it only lasts a year.

However, they are the ones who must be attracted, especially in Île-de-France, ”sums up Stéphane Crochet, general secretary of the reformist union SE-Unsa.

For her part, Sophie Vénétitay, professor in Essonne and general secretary of Snes-FSU, the main secondary school union, if she considers that the decision "is going in the right direction", also thinks of teachers "in mid-career", injured according to her.

“I take my example: I have a twelve-year career and I receive just over 2,000 euros.

I will therefore have the same salary as a beginner”, she illustrates, claiming that this new salary be “a revaluation of the grids” rather than “bonuses”.

Same story with Coline, a teacher for ten years in Seine-Saint-Denis, for whom it is "compulsory" to rethink the salaries "of everyone".

“How can I not be discouraged if I earn the same as someone less damaged than me by the trade?

No doubt this will bring in young people, but some will also slam the door, when we need experienced people, ”deciphers the one who has spent her entire career in 93.

There remains the question of “bonuses” awarded in exchange for “new missions”, another announcement by Pap Ndiaye in Paris.

Accompaniment of students, replacement of colleagues… it is still unclear, but the minister announces that part of the salary increase will be “with consideration”.

Difficult to hear for Sophie Vénétitay.

“Most of us are already doing these extra missions,” she says.

And they are already paid!

I'm afraid the idea is to make them mandatory.

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