Teachers' pay increases and inflation rates (FOI)

​​Request

Please provide details of the pay increases for teachers as a percentage of salary, from 1992 to date as well as the annual rates of inflation for the same period.

Response

Please see attached table which shows the annual teacher pay increases as a percentage of salary from 2013 to 2022.

Table.pdf​

The information requested from 1992 and 2012 is not held in a reportable format; therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Please find below some helpful published links:

The 2013 to 2022 data can be found in the Annual reports and accounts for all pay groups which also shows the RPI on page 175:

​States of Jersey Group 2022 Annual Report and Accounts (gov.je)​

The annual rates of inflation are published online, please follow the below link:

Retail prices index (inflation) (gov.je)​

Also available on open data:

Inflation (RPI, RPIX, RPI pensioners, RPI low income) (opendata.gov.je)​

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​