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Average (mean and median) full-time equivalent teacher salary by local authorityLast update
July 2024Next update
July 2025 (provisional)Publishing organisation
Welsh GovernmentSource 1
School Workforce Annual CensusContact email
EducationWorkforceData@gov.walesDesignation
Experimental statisticsLowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local authoritiesGeographical coverage
Local authoritiesLanguages covered
English and WelshData licensing
You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licenceGeneral description
The data covers different aspects of the school workforce in Wales, using the data collected from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC).Data collection and calculation
School teachers pay data are derived from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC) returns in November each year. The returns are completed by local authorities and those schools which have opted-out of payroll and / or HR service level agreements with their local authority.Frequency of publication
AnnualData reference periods
From 2019/20 onwards.Users, uses and context
Information relating to pay (including average salary and distribution across pay ranges) are based on information submitted in the SWAC Pay, HR and Absences return. Records from this return were linked to the SWAC School return using the minimum data set to provide a breakdown by school sector (i.e. primary, secondary etc). Where no corresponding record was identified in the SWAC School return their sector has been recorded as ‘Other’.The teachers’ pay award for academic year 2022/23 was not finalised and implemented until after the SWAC census date in November 2022 and average pay figures published for 2022/23 in July 2023 did not fully reflect the pay uplift for 2022/23. As a result, the increase in average teachers’ pay between 2022/23 and 2023/24 as shown in the data will be greater than the 2023 pay award uplift as it includes an element of the 2022 teachers’ pay award where local authorities were unable to implement it before the SWAC census date in November 2022