Teachers will get a pay raise every year. State employees will increase salaries, but only on paper
In society, there has always been an ambiguous opinion regarding the profession of a teacher. On the one hand, the teacher and other teaching staff are highly educated and competent professionals who love their job and want to pass on their knowledge to the younger generation. Another thing is that the financial situation of such workers is always not at a high level, which affects the prestige of such a profession and the desire of young people to receive such a profession. Of course, the country's government is aware of this situation and periodically declares its desire to radically change the situation, to increase the prestige of teaching, both in schools and in higher educational institutions. But, unfortunately, such an initiative is not always put into action. And then we will talk about such an issue as raising the salaries of teachers in 2019 in Russia; Let's discuss the latest news.
Assessment of the real state of the pedagogical field of activity
It is no secret to anyone that the profession of an ordinary school teacher has not attracted young people for a long time, since everyone is well aware that there are no prospects for development in this profession. And this is not due to the fact that someone is better, someone is worse, but simply because the salary of teachers does not allow not only to develop, but even to live normally. If you carefully read various reports and news, then everywhere it says that average salary teacher is 20,000 rubles per month. But this is an average. Someone gets 30, and someone 10, as a result, we have an average figure of 20 thousand rubles.
According to statistical data, on average in Russia in 2017, such indicators were observed wages:
- Teachers of higher educational institutions were able to earn an average of 35,000 rubles a month;
- Teachers of secondary schools have a salary of 27,500 rubles;
- Educators of preschool institutions, that is, kindergarten teachers, received an average of 25,000 rubles.
At the same time, there is no statistical information on the wages of nannies, who also take part in the upbringing of babies no less, but usually receive much lower wages. There are no statistics on masters of vocational schools, etc. But despite this, many may be surprised and say that the situation is not as bad as it seems. After all, a salary for the region of 25-35 thousand rubles is normal, with the rational use of resources.
Also, do not forget about the statistical calculations that everyone takes into account: both the salaries of private schools and the salaries of public institutions. Of course, it is very difficult to judge the situation based on these data.
The salary of a teacher of any rank depends on many indicators, including the specific region of residence. In Moscow and the region, the salary of a teacher will be higher than the salary of the same teacher in a small village or district. In addition, the teacher's salary has always consisted of many additional payments to the main report:
- This is an additional payment for seniority, that is, for length of service;
- Supervision for classroom management;
- Additional payment for tuition in a particular region;
- Other types of surcharges.
That is, statistics give us average figures, taking into account all types of allowances and bonuses, but when a young specialist comes to work, he is not entitled to such allowances by law. He receives only a "naked" salary. Also, do not forget about such an indicator as the load. No matter how much a teacher would like to earn at school, he cannot receive wages more than his workload. The load depends mainly on such an indicator as the number of students. And here there is a direct correlation: how many students are in the village and, for example, in the capital. Therefore, we have such a difference: at the end of 2017, in Moscow, the average salary of a teacher was 58,780 rubles, and in the village - 9,000 rubles.
As a result, we get a situation where there are no young teachers in the village and small towns. Yes and in major cities there is a tendency when only people of retirement age who work exclusively by vocation work as teachers. If someone decides to enter the pedagogical faculty of the university, it is not always out of good intentions.
Behind last years there is such a trend: those who pass the exam very badly and cannot enter more prestigious universities and higher-paying specialties go to pedagogical universities.
Will there be an increase in 2018
The government announced that teachers in 2019 are waiting for a fairly good salary increase, which will be hard to miss. Recall that earlier Vladimir Putin announced an increase in salaries, which was supposed to radically increase the prestige of this profession. According to the President, by 2019, each teacher should have received on average 200% more than the average citizen of his region. In addition, the salary in relation to 2012 was to increase by 150%. If the declared promises were kept, then of course the teachers could be satisfied with their level of remuneration. But, unfortunately, the situation is not as rosy as it should be.
Many government officials generally say that there are no funds in the budget to radically change the situation in this area. In order for teachers to feel the increase and be able to get a decent increase in salary, it is necessary to take the funds from somewhere, that is, to make some kind of redistribution. It will be necessary to abandon the current repair of classes, the purchase of new equipment, etc. But then the students themselves will suffer. And it turns out that the country is in a vicious circle.
At the same time, all the same, such promises were partially fulfilled, and already from January 1, 2019, teachers will be able to experience some increase in their salaries.
Scatter factor
One of the most important innovations that will change the level of teachers' salaries in 2019 will be the dispersion coefficient. What this means: This means that the salary of an ordinary school teacher and his management, that is, the director, will be dependent on each other.
The law establishes a strict proportion, which does not allow the salary of management positions to be exceeded by more than 4 times from the salaries of ordinary first-level employees.
For example, if a teacher at a school receives 10,000 rubles, then the director of this school a priori will not be able to accrue a salary of more than 40,000 rubles.
Also introduced and another proportion between the other staff. But the question regarding these proportions remains open. Regarding the school, so far there are three categories of teachers that can be in the school:
- Teacher. This is the employee who came to work after graduation and has not yet undergone any further training. It's kind of the lowest rung career ladder.
- Senior teacher. Interestingly, not everyone can become a senior teacher, even after a long work. An allowance for such a rating in 2019 can only be received if the teacher takes an active part in the development of certain educational programs.
- Lead teacher. The very last rung of the career ladder in the gradation of teaching work. You can get a leader only if the teacher himself has become responsible for organizing and coordinating the work of other teachers.
But for now, it is impossible to find out official information regarding what allowances are due for each category. This information is closed to the public or there is no idea at all how the salary increase will be carried out in accordance with this classification.
Another innovation that has been adopted in order to increase wages is the introduction independent evaluation pedagogical worker.
According to the adopted law, every teacher will be able to take an independent exam in 2019 and, as a result of passing, receive a document confirming this procedure. If the certificate is in hand, then purely theoretically, the teacher may demand another increase from the leadership.
But again, the issue is quite controversial. Schools or other educational institution is public sector entity for which certain funding is allocated from the regional and federal budgets. Even if the school principal wants to increase his employee's wages, where can he get the funds for such an increase? The question remains open.
Unfortunately, teachers are very skeptical about such innovations. They believe that all the measures taken are only a fraction of the fact that now it has become much more difficult to receive allowances and bonuses. But time will tell what will happen and how.
Regarding official data regarding the increase in teachers' salaries, the following is currently known: from January 1, 2018, all teachers' salaries will be indexed by 4%.
This is the official size. Considering the fact that, according to statistics, the average salary of a teacher in Russian Federation is 20,000 rubles, then the increase will be in the amount of 1200 rubles. But again, these are all averages. If a village teacher receives a salary of 9,000, then he will receive a raise of 360 rubles. How much money will be enough is a difficult question.
After all, one should not forget that teachers in schools, and most of all teachers in universities, should participate in conferences, print the results of their scientific research etc. And it's not all free. Already, many complain that their work is turning into a hobby that does not bring income. Many teachers have either been working in this field for a long time or have additional source earnings. But the fact that it is difficult to live only on the salary of a teacher remains an indisputable fact.
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The salaries of educators leave much to be desired. Teachers in Russia cannot boast of a high level of income. In May last year, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin came up with an initiative to raise wages for educators. Despite the fact that, according to the plan, earnings should have increased one and a half times today compared to 2012 and be 200% more than the average salary in the regions, we can note that the task was not completed.
Teachers are skeptical of claims of this kind. They express doubts that salaries will be raised to the promised level. We cannot close our eyes to the fact that the crisis that is emerging in the field of education is taking on dangerous dimensions and will entail catastrophic changes. The teaching profession is losing prestige and becoming unclaimed. It would seem that people who can be said to be laying the foundation of society by educating our children need special attention and support from our government. But in reality the situation looks different. A teacher's salary does not motivate young people to choose this profession for themselves. What it can turn into and so clear. The shortage of qualified personnel and the lowering of the level of education - that's what we may face in the near future.
Young people with low results in the Unified State Examination enter universities that train future teachers. Moreover, the choice of a profession is motivated not by love for this type of activity, but by the notorious low passing score. Only teachers of computer science and foreign languages remain highly competitive. This is due to the fact that the guys do not really believe that they will work in schools, and just in case they choose a profession in which they can realize themselves outside educational institutions. In our article, we will tell you whether there will be an increase in teachers' salaries in 2018.
Teacher salaries in 2018 - a priority area
The issue of attracting young people to the educational sphere is acute today. Schools more than ever need young effective staff with a fresh look and new energy. Basically, the teachers who work today in Russian schools are elderly people. Many teachers have long since retired and continue to teach. Despite all the inexorable merits of educators with long service and experience, there is a slight bias.
Older people are not able to adapt to changes with sufficient speed. What's more, most of them are with the technique on you. And now, it is necessary to attract people to work in schools who will be able to take advantage of all the innovative tools and methods that have appeared in Russian schools in recent years. In distant regions and hinterlands, the situation can be described as deplorable. Young teachers have no desire to go to work in remote villages and distant settlements.
Salaries in the distant settlements disproportionate to work. Young people do not have a healthy motivation to leave the city in favor of the work of a rural teacher. VTsIOM gives depressing figures. As a result of a survey of Russians, 37% said that the profession of a teacher is not at all prestigious, and 42% of respondents said that it was impossible to live in Russia on a teacher's salary.
The same critical situation developed in the field of preschool education. Wages for kindergarten workers are so meager that skilled workers are becoming rare. If you manage to find a good teacher or nanny, then this is the exception rather than the rule. It should be noted that in the higher educational institutions of the country, young professional personnel are as rare as good teachers in kindergartens. Mostly retired people teach. Assistants prefer to leave the walls of universities, moving to any other job. For example, they become office managers. It's all because of the meager salary, as in all previous cases.
The government cannot fail to notice the scale and severity of the problem. The task of increasing the prestige of the teaching profession and increasing interest in this type of activity is a priority today.
An increase in wages is planned, not only for directors and head teachers, but also for ordinary teachers. The teaching staff of universities can also count on an increase in income.
The situation with the salaries of accountants today
It is still difficult to say how much teachers' salaries will change in 2018. Here are the average values for Russia, which reflect what the income of teachers was in the past 2017.
It is worth noting that these are average values for Russia. This means that in different regions of our country, wages are strikingly different.
It is impossible to give an objective assessment based on average values, because the salary of a rural teacher differs significantly from that in Moscow. In St. Petersburg and the capital, the salary is two or even three times higher than the amount received in other cities.
Consider how much our teachers in the regions receive per month:
In villages, teachers' salaries vary from 9,000 to 13,000 rubles.
Salaries of university teachers and employees of preschool institutions in 2018
The average salary of teachers of higher educational institutions barely reaches 30,000 rubles. This salary is received by people who have decent teaching experience behind them. Assistants are forced to be content with 12,000 rubles on average. These values apply to both small and large cities of Russia. An assistant professor working in the provinces earns 15,000 rubles a month, while an assistant tries to live on the 10,000 he is entitled to. The salaries of rectors and deans are strikingly different from ordinary teachers. The dean's salary can be about a hundred thousand a month, and the rector of the university can earn even more. Sometimes the level of monthly income reaches three hundred thousand rubles.
What happens to wages in kindergartens? How much do people who raise our children get while we are at work? The amounts are disappointing. On average, it is 20 thousand rubles. If we move away from the average indicators, then in fact we have the following picture:
Statistical inaccuracies
Statistical indicators do not give a complete picture of the situation in the country as a whole. When deriving averages, both public and private are taken into account. educational institutions. The presence of private institutions significantly distorts the correctness of the results, smoothing all real indicators to figures that are acceptable at first glance.
What salaries do private traders pay? For example, a nanny in a private kindergarten receives about 28,000 rubles a month for her work with children. A teacher in private schools receives a salary starting from 35,000 rubles. Associate Professor has at least 60,000 rubles every month. The presence of these figures in the overall calculation hides how things really are.
Government statistics for 2016 show fantastic numbers. The Deputy Minister of Education announced the average salaries of teachers:
One cannot but agree that such salaries throughout Russia could be dreamed of. But, let's return from heaven to earth and consider on the ground how obvious and frank contradictions we have.
After conducting a survey in the subjects of the federation, the experts came to the conclusion that the real amounts are not even close to the beautiful amounts of the government report. The real salary does not reach not only up to 30, but also up to 20 thousand. Approximately 18,600 rubles are received by teachers in the regions. And this is also an average.
Most clearly demonstrates the true state of affairs of the job market. If we analyze the data for the last year, then the following number of teachers is currently required in Russian educational institutions.
So, for wages from 5,700 (!) to 17,000 rubles, they are looking for 56% of total number needed teachers. In general, 440 jobs are available. 24% of 440 are offered salaries from 17,100 to 28,100. The lucky ones, who make up only 12% of the total, will be given a salary of 28,200 to 38,350 rubles for their work.
According to Vsevolod Lukhovitsky, statistics do not take into account another important factor. How exactly is it possible for a teacher to reach one or another salary per month. The co-chairman of the interregional teachers' union says that teachers are being overworked. In order to earn at least some extra money, teachers work hard.
Lukhovitsky said that the rate system is becoming obsolete. It is necessary to carry out not indexation of the rate, but an increase in the wage standards for each teacher.
It is necessary to take into account not only the number of lessons, but also the number of children. The workload of a teacher in a class where the number does not exceed 20 people and the workload in a class where the number of children reaches more than 30 people differ significantly. The only way out for a Russian teacher is to overload himself. Classroom management, conducting optional subjects, a large number of lessons - the path to emotional burnout of the teacher. He stops thinking about the quality of his work, not because he has lost interest in the profession, but because, in the pursuit of survival, he simply has neither moral nor physical strength.
Another type of teaching side job is “Pulling up” weak students. Additional lessons bring a small income. What does this threaten - for example, that the teacher, based on selfish interests, will begin to underestimate grades in order to expand the number of “lagging behind”. Then heavy artillery enters - pressure on parents that their child will not finish school without additional classes. Teachers who cannot earn extra money leave schools altogether.
What to expect from teacher salaries in 2018?
The salary of teachers in 2018 is predicted to be increased. The optimization that will be carried out this year should have a positive impact on the education sector.
But, you should not expect that all teachers will increase salaries.
It depends on the regional authorities how much they will add to teachers and whether they will add anything at all. The teacher's salary alone is only a part of the salary. But its full amount is formed individually, depending on what experience, category, etc. has a teacher. A novice teacher does not receive close to the salary that a teacher with more than ten years of experience has. Due to the fact that indexation directly affects the salary, and not the salary as a whole, the maximum increase will reach only 5.5%.
The government has no money to increase rates. From the point of view of Alexei Kudrin, it is possible to significantly change the course of affairs only by revising budget policy the state as a whole. By such a revision, we can mean a hypothetical redistribution of the budget, where the priority will not be the repair and equipment of schools, but the salaries of teachers.
Another dubious innovation that will affect the system of bonuses and incentives is the introduction of new titles for teachers. Titles will be awarded based on the complexity of the work. New professional standard bring new jobs.
There will be divisions such as:
To determine which of the above statuses a teacher belongs to will be through an examination. Most of all, the introduction of new titles worries teachers of retirement age. According to this category of teachers, the innovation is aimed at dismissing all pensioners from schools.
Scatter coefficient in 2018
The assumption that the salaries of teachers in 2018 will increase by almost 200% is not unfounded. The spread factor will significantly affect the teacher rate.
In each region of Russia the situation is different. Far from every subject of the federation shares the government's opinion on the increase in salaries. In many regions, it is believed that such a salary increase is unrealistic.
Starting in 2018, the spread factor will have a significant impact on rate setting. What does this mean? The difference in salaries between the director of the school and the ordinary teacher will be reduced. Too much difference between employees of the same link will become unacceptable by law.
There will be a one-to-four system. The manager's salary should not exceed this figure. While there is no reliable information when the announced reforms will begin to operate in full force.
"May Decrees of the President"
Let's consider what was planned to be implemented before 2018, and how things are with the execution of the presidential order in the field.
A report on the increase in the wages of workers in the field of education is provided to the president annually. Since 2016, the increase in the salaries of teachers has been under the special control of the president. But the deadlines for the implementation of the program are violated. Due to the budget deficit in the regions, wage increases are big delay. Therefore, not without reason, we can assume that in 2018 the cardinal changes that were programmed will not follow.
Since January 2018, indexation has been 4%. That is, only 1,200 rubles were added to teachers' salaries in 2018. And then, this figure is valid only for those whose monthly salary was more than 20,000.
Whether it will be possible to rectify the situation this year is not known. At the very least, the government promises to stick to its set course towards a significant improvement in the standard of living of teachers and other public sector employees. Time will tell how much teachers' salaries will increase in 2018.
Teachers and doctors were the ones to whom, on the eve of the presidential elections in 2012, the main promises of candidate Vladimir Putin were addressed. In order to win them over, it was promised that doctors and teachers by 2018 would earn money 2 times higher than the average wages of their region of residence. The indexation of teacher salaries at the beginning of 2018 is the latest indexation in terms of the performance of the famous May Decrees. Teacher salaries from January 1, 2018: the latest news on the indexation of teachers' salaries in Russia.
How the 2012 decrees are being implemented in relation to teachers
Naturally, according to the reports of officials, the decrees are executed regularly. Teachers will earn in 2018 on average 2 times higher than representatives of other professions on average in the region of residence of an educator, and purely theoretically, all figures, of course, will be adjusted as needed. However, it is important how this task is performed.
One of the methods of manipulating the numbers, often used by officials, is artificially lowering and holding back average wages. A similar practice of manipulation took place at the very top - back in 2015 Russian government changed the methodology for calculating the average wage, referring to the practice international organization labor. As told in the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, such a simple maneuver made it possible Russian authorities seriously underestimate the statistics of average wages in the country, thereby allowing the implementation of the May 2012 decrees. After all, teachers and doctors were not promised that they would earn specifically 50 or 70 thousand rubles. The conversation was that their wages would be 2 times higher than the average in the economy. There was no mention of how to achieve this.
In addition, various manipulations were undertaken to “twist” the average salary of teachers-doctors.
For example, if we talk about school teachers, the authorities seem to have made frank additions, since in 2017 officials reported that a secondary school teacher on average in Russia earns 32,000 rubles a month. Journalists from the Public Television of Russia conducted an investigation into how things are going in practice. According to the results of the investigation, it turned out that in almost 50% of the regions, teachers earn no more than 14 thousand. Moreover, such an amount is not a salary, on which additional payments and bonuses could be charged. This is the amount received by teachers in the hands.
Giving an assessment of the indexation of salaries of teachers-doctors, most experts note that, say, in 2015, indexation was “eaten up” by inflation.
How much will salaries for teachers be raised from January 1, 2018
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in early January that the increase in teachers' salaries in January 2018 would be 23%. This is actually a good figure, especially against the background of 4%, by which the wages of other state employees who were not included in the May decrees were increased.
If you believe Rosstat and the reports of this organization on the average salary of teachers in Russia in 2017 in the amount of 32.6 thousand rubles, then it turns out that in 2018 the average salary of a teacher will be 40 thousand rubles.
If we turn to independent statistics about how much teachers in Russia actually earn, then, according to the Trud.Com website, in 2017 real wages teachers averaged 20-21 thousand rubles across the country. The 40 thousand mentioned above were earned by teachers only in the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs.
For this, 14.5 billion rubles will be allocated from the budget.
The government continued distributing cash gifts to the electorate ahead of the upcoming elections. After pensioners, whose pensions have been indexed by 3.7% since January 1, the turn came to state employees, whose votes the government also counts on. For these purposes, the government has allocated 14.5 billion rubles, which will be used to increase the wages of teachers, doctors and cultural figures. The corresponding decree was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The government announced in December that public sector employees will receive an increase in wages from 2018. As they wrote then on the official portal of legal information, the funds are pledged in federal budget for 2018–2020. Now a specific amount has been named: 15.4 billion rubles, which will be used in 2018 to increase the salaries of public sector employees.
But officials are in no hurry to part with the entire amount at once. As reported on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, 14.5 billion rubles were initially allocated. Of these, 7.2 billion will go to education, 3.4 billion each to science and healthcare, and 500 million will be given to cultural figures. The remaining 900 million rubles in the reserve will be distributed after an analysis of the results of wage increases and the growth rate of average monthly income.
Thus, the government intends to return the old “debt” to state employees and finally execute the May 2012 presidential decrees. Recall that then Vladimir Putin, after taking office as head of state, outlined a program for the development of social guarantees. It contained parameters for which Russian economy should come out during his presidential term. Among others, there was a decree on raising the wages of state employees. It was planned that by 2017 it will be from 100 to 200% of the average salary in the region. In particular, since 2012, the average salaries of teachers and doctors should have been equal to the average for the region and not fall below this level.
However, the next presidential election is just around the corner, and things are still there. According to a survey of doctors by the Health Foundation and the All-Russian People's Front, almost 60% of doctors have one rate of less than 25 thousand rubles. Another 10.8% receive from 25,000 to 30,000. Moreover, in order to receive that kind of money, a doctor needs to work about 39 hours a week - this is the maximum salary of a doctor according to the Labor Code.
Meanwhile, according to Rosstat data for January-September 2017, the average salary of Russian doctors was at the level of 53.1 thousand rubles, which is 157% of the average for the region. There is a discrepancy between the poll results and the official figures. However, this difference is associated with a high coefficient of part-time employment among medical workers. According to the survey, 42% of doctors work for one position, 20% for one and a half and 11% for two.
In addition, according to the first deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Economics Ivan Antropov, the allocation of 14.5 billion rubles to increase the salaries of state employees is not so much a gesture of goodwill on the part of the government as a necessary measure. The fact is that earlier Vladimir Putin signed a decree: from May 1, 2018, to equate minimum size wages to the living wage. “Officers plan to kill two birds with one stone: on the one hand, to report on the implementation of six-year-old May decrees, on the other, to fulfill the plan to raise the minimum wage. Plus, even before the elections, statistics on salaries and incomes will be tightened up, ”the expert says.
True, Antropov doubts that the result will justify itself. “The actual income of state employees is affected not only by federal budget expenditures, but also by regional budget expenditures. So you need to look at the whole picture as a whole, and not at individual pieces of the puzzle, ”the economist believes.
Undoubtedly, the income of the population will grow. But only on paper. As a result, the private sector will be forced to go into the shadows in order to avoid new minimum wage norms. According to Antropov, the Russian economy is currently not developing. And this means that there are no prerequisites for a natural increase in the contents of the wallets of ordinary Russians.
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The teaching profession has an important public function education and preparation of future generations. Teachers teach our children, unlock their potential, instill a love of knowledge and show by example what kind of people they can become in the process of their further development. life path. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to teachers not only as employees of educational institutions, but also as people. Despite this, the likelihood of a significant increase in teachers' salaries in 2017 is weak.
The current figure for teacher salaries
The capital has the highest level of salaries among teachers. The average level of wages reaches 70 thousand. But it is worth noting that for this money, teachers are assigned a large number of tasks, including increasing the working day or the number of students. In addition, according to the latest news in Moscow, there are no plans to raise the salaries of teachers in 2017.
As for the rest of the country, the situation is different. In a number of regions, cases were noted when real wages barely crossed the threshold living wage. You can find such examples when people receive a salary of ten and twelve thousand rubles for their work, sometimes taking into account the bonus part.
Special attention should be paid to the ratio of the basic salary and incentive payments. In some regions, it is equal to 60 to 40. Some experts say that this is not an entirely fair wage scheme and speak in the direction of changing the ratio in favor of increasing the main part.
Will there be a salary increase for teachers in 2017?
The planned increase in wages will be carried out without fail, as this is enshrined in the decision of the president. She takes into account a basic level of inflation across the country. The problem lies in the difference between the predicted and real inflation rates. As practice shows, they differ greatly from each other.
Another interesting issue is the teachers' pension for 2017. Here the situation is ambiguous. The Ministry of Finance proposed an initiative to temporarily freeze pension savings, due to which the federal budget will be replenished by another 400 billion rubles. It is not yet clear whether teachers fall under the pension savings freeze group.
Trends
According to the federal plan, it was planned from March 2016 to the end of 2018 to carry out a program to increase the minimum wage, but due to the protracted crisis, this process is slowing down. Every year there is a systematic reduction in ongoing support. Despite promises of timely indexation of wages and pensions, this problem is not given sufficient attention.
So, for example, at the all-Russian youth educational forum "Territory of Meanings", Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, when answering the question of why the salaries of teachers are so low (it was about the Republic of Dagestan), allowed himself a statement that was resonant in its power affecting teachers throughout Russia. A rather disturbing message was hidden under the general ritual words. Of course, the teaching profession is a heartfelt vocation for those who choose it. But what about people who do not have enough money to live?
In addition, in the regions as a whole, the budget designed to support the education sector is reduced, on average, by 3-8%. Accepting numerous complaints from teachers, the regional authorities are in no hurry to solve the problem, apparently, waiting for better times, asking them to be patient.
What can affect the increase in wages?
Separate initiative projects, promoted by enterprising people in the hope of changing and at least slightly improving the situation, work poorly. Regional authorities involved in the distribution of the budget, more trust in the papers and statistics deployed before them than the words of the few experts who are concerned about the current situation.