Teachers’ and school heads’ knowledge and skills, together with their commitment to the job are essential factors in providing for inclusive and sustainable education while achieving high-quality educational outcomes. Remuneration, along with other factors plays an important role in attracting and retaining people into the profession and ensuring that serving teachers feel valued and motivated to provide high-quality teaching and thus contribute to successful education systems.

This interactive platform provides data on statutory salaries and actual salaries of full-time, fully qualified teachers and school heads in public schools, as well as on allowances they may get in addition to their statutory salaries.

It covers the 37 European countries, members of the Eurydice network.

Information on salaries covers pre-primary to upper secondary education. Data are collected in accordance with the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED).

Salary data refer to annual gross salaries, which may be:

• statutory data: defined in regulations or other steering documents (see statutory salaries and allowances)

• actual data: a weighted average of teachers’ actual earnings (see actual salaries).