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10% pay raise for Hungarian teachers in January
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Sándor Pintér, the interior minister, told lawmakers on Monday that a 10 percent pay raise for teachers from January was “definitely” in the pipeline.
The aim is for Hungarian children to be educationally competitive in the European Union, and to achieve this it was essential to increase the social recognition of teachers and boost their pay as part of a differentiated, performance-based salary system.
The law on the new teacher’s career model has been designed with this in mind, Pintér said at his annual hearing before the parliament’s culture committee.
He said the new public education employment law had the backing of “most teachers”, with 70 percent agreeing that performance should be a factor when setting pay. Not every teacher’s salary will increase, he added.
Teachers who work in regions that are striving to close the gap with richer ones may be set 20 percent higher, in order to encourage teachers to work in more deprived areas.
With a view to reducing administrative burdens, self-evaluation has been scrapped, while principals now have carte blanche to extend the winter or spring break to take into account how tired students are, he said. Also, schools will stay open for an extra hour, until 6pm.