2025/26 pay award

The independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) has recommended a pay award of 4% to uplift the pay and allowances for teachers in England from 1 September 2025.

The government has accepted the recommendations and has also announced a package of additional funding for schools to help them meet the majority of costs for the pay award.

Please see our Pay Award (England) page for further details of the implementation process.

Teachers’ pay scales for England, excluding London and the Fringe

The pay values below are those published in the STPCD and fall short of our demand for an above RPI inflation pay increase this year.

We have set up separate salary scales for members who work in Inner and Outer London and the Fringe.

If you work in an academy that is not operating in accordance with the STPCD, please see our Academies FAQs.

Qualified Teachers
Teaching and Learning Responsibilities
Special Educational Needs Allowances
Unqualified Teachers
Lead Practitioners
Leadership Group
Ranges for Headteachers

Qualified Teachers

Spine point 1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
Main pay range
M1 (Minimum) [1] £31,650 £32,916
M2 £33,483 £34,823
M3 £35,674 £37,101
M4 £38,034 £39,556
M5 £40,439 £42,057
M6 (Maximum) £43,607 £45,352
Upper pay range
U1 (Minimum) [1] £45,646 £47,472
U2 £47,338 £49,232
U3 (Maximum) £49,084 £51,048

Teaching and Learning Responsibilities (TLRs)

  1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
Payment 1 (TLR1)
Minimum
Maximum
£9,782
£16,553
£10,174
£17,216
Payment 2 (TLR2)
Minimum
Maximum
£3,391
£8,279
£3,527
£8,611
Payment 3 (TLR) (Fixed term)
Minimum
Maximum
£675
£3,344
£702
£3,478

NASUWT recommends that if the relevant body awards TLRs of different annual values to two or more teachers, the minimum difference in the annual value between each award of a TLR1 is £1,500 and between each award of a TLR2 is £1,500. From 1 September 2025, and no later than 1 September 2026, TLR1 and TLR2 payments will be paid to teachers based on the proportion of responsibility they carry out, rather than their contracted hours.  

See our Teaching and Learning Responsibility Payments (England) advice page for further guidance.

Special Educational Needs (SEN) Allowances

  1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
SEN Minimum
SEN Maximum
£2,679
£5,285
£2,787
£5,497

Unqualified Teachers

Scale point 1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
1 (Minimum) £21,731 £22,601
2 £24,224 £25,193
3 £26,716 £27,785
4 £28,914 £30,071
5 £31,410 £32,667
6 (Maximum) £33,902 £35,259

Lead Practitioners

Spine point 1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
1 £50,025 £52,026
2 £51,280 £53,332
3 £52,560 £54,663
4 £53,867 £56,022
5 £55,209 £57,418
6 £56,593 £58,857
7 £58,118 £60,443
8 £59,457 £61,836
9 £60,943 £63,381
10 £62,509 £65,010
11 £64,129 £66,695
12 £65,608 £68,233
13 £67,247 £69,937
14 £68,925 £71,682
15 £70,639 £73,465
16 £72,518 £75,419
17 £74,182 £77,150
18 £76,050 £79,092

Leadership Group

Spine point 1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
L1 [1] £49,781 £51,773
L2 £51,027 £53,069
L3 £52,301 £54,394
L4 £53,602 £55,747
L5 £54,939 £57,137
L6 £56,316 £58,569
L7 £57,831 £60,145
L8 £59,167 £61,534
L9 £60,644 £63,070
L10 £62,202 £64,691
L11 £63,815 £66,368
L12 £65,286 £67,898
L13 £66,919 £69,596
L14 £68,586 £71,330
L15 £70,293 £73,105
L16 £72,162 £75,049
L17 £73,819 £76,772
L18 £75,675 £78,702
L19 £77,552 £80,655
L20 £79,475 £82,654
L21 £81,441 £84,699
L22 £83,464 £86,803
L23 £85,529 £88,951
L24 £87,651 £91,158
L25 £89,830 £93,424
L26 £92,052 £95,735
L27 £94,332 £98,106
L28 £96,673 £100,540
L29 £99,067 £103,030
L30 £101,533 £105,595
L31 £104,040 £108,202
L32 £106,626 £110,892
L33 £109,275 £113,646
L34 £111,976 £116,456
L35 £114,759 £119,350
L36 £117,601 £122,306
L37 £120,524 £125,345
L38 £123,506 £128,447
L39 £126,517 £131,578
L40 £129,673 £134,860
L41 £132,913 £138,230
L42 £136,243 £141,693
L43 £138,265 £143,796

Please also see the pay ranges for headteachers below if you are at the top of a headteacher pay range.

Ranges for Headteachers

Group Range of spine points 1 Sept 2024 to 31 Aug 2025 1 Sept 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
1 L6-L18 £56,316 - £74,926 £58,569 - £77,924
2 L8-L21 £59,167 - £80,634 £61,534 - £83,860
3 L11-L24 £63,815 - £86,783 £66,368 - £90,255
4 L14-L27 £68,586 - £93,400 £71,330 - £97,136
5 L18-L31 £75,675 - £103,010 £78,702 - £107,131
6 L21-L35 £81,441 - £113,624 £84,699 - £118,169
7 L24-L39 £87,651 - £125,263 £91,158 - £130,274
8 L28-L43 £96,673 - £138,265 £100,540 - £143,796

The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) recommended that no pay uplift be applied to the maximum values on the Leadership Group Pay Range (LGPR) or to maximum values on any of the eight head teacher group pay ranges in 2015.

This restriction was applied to the maximum of each of the eight head teacher group pay ranges only. It does not apply where a head/deputy/assistant head teacher is not earning the maximum on a head teacher group pay range, but is placed on one of the corresponding points on the LGPR - L18, L21, L24, L27, L31, L35 or L39, which have all increased by 1% in each year between 2014 and 2017, by 1.5% in 2018, by 2.75% in 2019 and 2020, by 0% in 2021, by 5% in 2022, by 6.5% in 2023, by 5.5% in 2024 and by 4% in 2025.


Footnote
[1] M = main pay range, U = upper pay range, L = leadership pay range. All salaries/allowances are listed as £ per annum.

 



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