Pay award for teachers in 2023

Make sure you know what the teacher pay ranges, and teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments for 2023/24 are, as well as how your school needs to apply them. Find the pay ranges from the current STPCD all in one place.

Last reviewed on 18 October 2023
School types: All · School phases: All
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Contents
  1. Pay ranges for 2023/24
  2. Additional allowances

Pay ranges for 2023/24

There's at least a 6.5% increase across all pay ranges.

All pay rises will be back dated to 1 September 2023.

There are currently no statutory pay points within pay ranges, but you can use the advisory points for the main (MPR) and upper (UPR) pay ranges in annex 3 (page 63) to help you review your school's pay policy.

Unqualified, main (MPR), upper (UPR) and leading practitioner pay ranges

Pay range England (excluding London area) Inner London area Outer London area Fringe area
Unqualified teacher range        

Minimum:

Maximum:

£20,598

£32,134

£25,831

£37,362

£24,415

£35,954

£21,933

£33,464

MPR        

Minimum:

Maximum:

£30,000

£41,333

£36,745

£47,666

£34,514

£46,001

£31,350

£42,689

UPR        

Minimum:

Maximum:

£43,266

£46,525

£52,526

£56,959

£47,592

£51,179

£44,579

£47,839

Leading practitioner range        

Minimum:

Maximum:

£47,417

£72,085

£56,377

£81,051

£51,179

£75,850

£48,723

£73,393

These are set out on pages 20 to 23 of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD 2023).

Leadership pay ranges

Annual salary England (excluding the London area) Inner London area Outer London area Fringe area
Minimum: £47,185 £56,100 £50,929 £48,484
Maximum: £131,056 £139,891 £134,765 £132,352

This is set out on page 11 of the STPCD 2023, linked above.

Find the pay ranges for the different headteacher groups on page 12 of the STPCD 2023.

Teaching and learning