Salaries

For secondary teachers, the collective agreement and individual employment contracts section of the Ministry of Education’s website gives information on such things as remuneration and allowances, hours of work, and leave provisions.

Loan Support Scheme

Secondary teachers of maths, technology, te reo Māori and physics now receive a taxable payment of $2,500 in each of their second, third and fourth years of teaching as an incentive to remain in teaching.

From 2005, Māori Medium teachers - who teach in a total immersion setting: kura kaupapa Māori; wharekura; or total immersion classes in a mainstream school - are eligible to receive a taxable payment of $2,500 in each of their second, third and fourth years of teaching.

Teachers in hard-to-staff schools who teach all the current target subjects - biology, chemistry, English, maths, physics, technology and te reo Māori at the secondary level, will also be eligible to apply.  For conditions relating to subjects recently removed from SSTA, please click here for the details of this scheme.

Having a student loan will not be a condition of payment but where a teacher has a student loan, the payment will be used to reduce the teacher’s student loan.

Recipients of the Secondary Subject Trainee Allowances are eligible for this scheme, as are some Secondary Subject Scholarship recipients.

For more details and entry criteria, download the form below.