Teachers, allied educators to get pay increase from October

Singapore

TEACHERS will get a pay rise from Oct 1, 2015, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said in a statement on Tuesday.

Those in various General Education Officer and Senior Education Officer grades will receive a 4-9 per cent increase in their monthly salaries.

This is "to ensure that their overall salary packages keep pace with the market" and "to signal the importance we place on teaching as a profession", MOE said.

"The demands on our teachers are growing," Education Minister Heng Swee Keat wrote in a Facebook post. "It is important that we attract and retain suitable people to be our teachers, and develop them …