Government of Jersey

Teachers' ages and pay (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 10 October 2023.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

Please advise what percentage of teaching staff is over the age of 45 years?

Please provide the mean, more and median of teachers' pay?

Please provide the mean pay of teachers, excluding deputy teachers and head teachers?

Pleae advise what percentage of teachers will reach retirement age (60 on the old scheme) in the next eight years?

Response

A and D

It has been concluded that the information, as requested, is not held in recorded form. The Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.

B and C

For information, Public Sector pay scales are publicly available on www.gov.je and can be accessed via the following link. These figures display the range of salaries in different pay groups and include information relating to teachers.

Public Sector pay scales (gov.je)

Teacher pay, by band, can also be found on Page 187 of the States of Jersey Annual Report and Accounts and can accessed via the link below.

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

Public sector pay scales are publicly available on www.gov.je and can be accessed via the link above. These figures display the range of salaries in different pay-groups including Teacher pay scales.

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.