Azerbaijani teachers will not receive the highest salary in the UK

On June 18, President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on increasing the salaries of teachers who work in state educational institutions and have passed certification. The salaries of these teachers will increase by an average of 20% from September 1, 2019. It was reported that the increase in salaries will affect about 160,000 teachers and will allow them to raise their average monthly salary to 605 manat (357 US dollars). With an increase in the salaries of civil servants in Azerbaijan, they will become the highest paid in the South Caucasus (SC), the press reported.

In reality, comparing teacher salaries give a different picture. First, the highest salaries among the countries of the post-Soviet space are received by educational workers in the Baltic States. Estonia comes first with almost 1.5 thousand dollars of monthly wages, then come Latvia and Lithuania.

In Georgia, schoolteachers are divided into four categories: practice teachers are at the first stage, senior teachers are at the second, leading teachers are at the third, and mentors are at the fourth.

To date, the average salary of teachers in public schools in Georgia is 1 thousand GEL (about 365 dollars), and the average monthly nominal salary in Georgia, according to 2018, is 1124 GEL (about 410 dollars). Since September 2019, schoolteachers who have passed certification and a level higher than practical teachers will increase their salaries by 150 GEL (plus $ 55), for a total of $ 420).

https://sputnik-georgia.ru/reviews/20190513/245218346/V-Gruzii-povysyat-zarplatu-uchitelyam---ministr-rasskazal-po-kakomu-printsipu.html

The Minister of Education of Georgia promised that by 2022 the average salary of teachers, increasing annually, would reach 1.5 thousand lari (about 550 dollars).

In early August, the Ministry of Education of Georgia announced that teachers of retirement age who voluntarily leave the education system will receive a cash bonus equal to the salary two years before January 2020, and free medical insurance. It is estimated that teachers who agreed to leave will receive immediately more than 5 thousand dollars.

Women retire in Georgia - at 60 years old, men - at 65. The minimum pension in Georgia is 220 GEL, or $ 77 at the current exchange rate. Until recently, the average salary of full-time teachers in Armenia was about 150 thousand drams ($ 300). Since June 1, by the decision of Prime Minister Pashinyan, the salaries of teachers and military personnel have been increased by 10 percent, that is, teachers now receive an average of $ 330 per month. In Armenia, the increase in salaries affected 38 thousand teachers.

https://eurasia.expert/stalo-izvestno-kak-v-armenii-izmenyatsya-zarplaty-voennosluzhashchikh-i-uchiteley/

In Russia, in 2019, secondary school teachers receive 44,760 rubles ($ 686). University professors - 93,000 rubles ($ 1,426), preschool educators - 34,700 rubles ($ 532).

Thus, by the beginning of the school year, Azerbaijani schoolteachers will be only the second in the UK in terms of average salary after Georgia. In terms of salary, teachers of oil-rich Azerbaijan are ahead of colleagues from Armenia by only $ 27 a month. -0-