Employment
Finding a job
Once qualified as a teacher, there are several ways of finding a job:
Salaries
Collective agreements for secondary, primary and kindergarten teachers can be viewed on the Ministry of Education’s website.
For other early childhood services, pay varies greatly and salaries are agreed in a variety of collective agreements or by individual contracts.
More detailed information on some early childhood collectives and primary salaries can be found on NZEI’s website. Similarly secondary teachers can view the PPTA’s website for further salary information or you can follow the links below.
Support while teaching
Loan Support Scheme
The aim of the Loan Support Scheme is to retain NZ qualified teachers of current target subjects in state or state-integrated schools (years 9 to 13) for at least the first four years after they have qualified as a teacher.
Secondary teachers of maths, physics, technology, te reo Māori, and Māori Medium teachers who are eligible will receive a taxable payment of $2500 in each of their second, third and fourth years of teaching to reduce their student loan.
Teachers in hard-to-staff schools who teach all the current target subjects - biology, chemistry, English, maths, physics, technology, and te reo Māori at the secondary level, will also be eligible to apply. For conditions relating to subjects recently removed from SSTA, please refer to the details of this scheme below.
Having a student loan will not be a condition of payment but where a teacher has a student loan, the payment will be used to reduce the student’s loan.
Recipients of the Secondary Subject Trainee Allowances are eligible for this scheme, as are some Secondary Subject Scholarship recipients.