Teachers offered the Minister of Education of the Orenburg Region to live on their salary

“Salary will be increased by 400 rubles”

A scandal erupted in Orenburg after the words of the regional Minister of Education Alexei Pakhomov about the impossibility of raising the salaries of local teachers to the Moscow level, otherwise “they will enter the education system for the long ruble, and not for the fact that there is a calling to teach children.” A teacher from Orenburg announced salaries in the region and invited the minister to live on this money.

After the scandalous speech of the Minister of Education in the Orenburg region, the regional government stood up for the official. They say that the speaker was misunderstood; the minister was not talking about the refusal to increase teachers’ salaries, but wanted to explain that teachers’ incomes meet the requirements.

A teacher from Orenburg with 17 years of experience commented on the situation.

– I work 36 hours a week, I have the highest category. The real salary without incentives is 36 thousand rubles, that’s how much I get in my hands,” says the teacher. – Incentives pay differently: when it’s 2000 rubles, when it’s 4000-5000. But, according to our officials, we receive 41 thousand. It doesn’t work out as much, no matter how you look at it, even with my highest category.

Theoretically, at the very least you can survive on 36 thousand rubles, pensioners manage to survive on 20 thousand…

Our interlocutor listed what the money is spent on: “We pay the mortgage – 13 thousand, travel to work is 2500, plus utilities 5500. The rest is for food and clothing. You can’t even dream about any vacation trips. I want to invite the minister to live on this salary himself.

All the teachers in the city are grinding on this topic. People on social networks are afraid to speak out, they might fire you. But in the comments under the video of the minister’s speech, city residents ask him to resign.”

Recently, local media highlighted the problem of teacher shortage in Orenburg. The publications came out with headlines that, due to a shortage of personnel, classes are taught by students.

“Many teachers quit, cannot cope with the workload, and do not want to work for a meager salary. We actually work seven days a week. We do so much unnecessary paperwork, constant reports, checks, preparation for lessons. There are a lot of vacancies in the region, no one is applying,” says the Orenburg teacher. – Teachers substitute for non-core subjects. Conventionally, a mathematics teacher can teach physics and music.

Payment for one substitute lesson is on average 100 rubles, if the teacher has a category. If the replacement is a young specialist without category or experience, they pay even less.

The regional government claims that in fact, teachers’ salaries are increased in accordance with decrees. Moreover, on the initiative of the governor, she was also promoted.

“The base salary has indeed been increased since October 1,” the woman agrees. – The rate was, it seems, 8 thousand, they added 628 rubles. The basic salary is 100 percent of the payment for one rate, which is 18 hours of work per week. Additional payments for length of service and category are then added to this amount.

Conventionally, for a teacher with a workload of 22 hours, the salary will increase by approximately 2,000 rubles. And our salaries, indeed, are increased twice a year, but these are ridiculous amounts – on average by 400 and 650 rubles.

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