Classroom Assistants: Average Earnings
(asked on 25th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average salary was for (a) general teaching assistants, (b) higher-level teaching assistants and (c) all teaching assistants in (i) local authority maintained schools, (ii) academy schools and (iii) free schools in each year between 2010 and 2015.
The following table shows the average salary for all full-time general teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants, and all teaching assistants in local authority maintained schools, academy schools, and free schools in England, from November 2011 to 2015.
Figures for 2010 are not available.
| Full-time General Teaching Assistants | Full-time Higher Level Teaching Assistants | Full-time All Teaching Assistants |
2011 |
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Local Authority Maintained Schools | £18,700 | £21,400 | £18,900 |
Academies | £18,400 | £20,400 | £18,600 |
Free Schools | SUPP | SUPP | SUPP |
All Schools | £18,600 | £21,300 | £18,800 |
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2012 |
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Local Authority Maintained Schools | £18,600 | £21,500 | £18,900 |
Academies | £18,300 | £21,000 | £18,500 |
Free Schools | £15,700 | SUPP | £16,000 |
All Schools | £18,500 | £21,400 | £18,800 |
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2013 |
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Local Authority Maintained Schools | £18,800 | £22,000 | £19,100 |
Academies | £18,500 | £21,200 | £18,700 |
Free Schools | SUPP | SUPP | £16,300 |
All Schools | £18,700 | £21,800 | £19,000 |
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2014 |
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Local Authority Maintained Schools | £18,800 | £21,900 | £19,200 |
Academies | £18,500 | £21,300 | £18,700 |
Free Schools | £16,500 | £19,500 | £16,700 |
All Schools | £18,700 | £21,700 | £19,000 |
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2015 |
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Local Authority Maintained Schools | £19,000 | £22,400 | £19,400 |
Academies | £18,900 | £21,400 | £19,100 |
Free Schools | £16,900 | £19,500 | £17,000 |
All Schools | £18,900 | £22,100 | £19,200 |
Source: School Workforce Census
Figures where there are less than 50 teaching assistants have been suppressed.