By how much will teachers increase in 2023?

School education will be subject to an additional economic effort. While the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal foresaw an increase of 3,600 million euros in the National Education Budget in the middle of the summer, the endowment will finally increase by 3,700 million euros. Therefore, the total budget of the ministry will be 60.2 billion euros in 2023, an increase of 6.5%.

Much of this increase will go to increases in teacher salaries.

139 euros more per month

What does this lump sum represent for each teacher? The country has about 870,000 people in charge of teaching this fall (730,000 in the public sector, 140,000 in the private sector under contract). If their number remains the same for the start of the 2023 school year, the increase will therefore be 1,075 euros on average per teacher during the last four months of the year, that is, 268 euros more per month.

Not everyone will receive this additional compensation. Precisely, a part of the 935 million euros of increase will be allocated to the new missions of the pact, whose content will give rise to consultations with the social partners. In the campaign for his re-election, the Head of State had mentioned ways for these new missions such as the substitution of absent classmates, the individualized monitoring of students or even help with homework and personalized accompaniment.

Teachers who already benefited in July, like all officials, from the 3.5% increase in the index point in the inflationary context.

In total, according to Bercy, the total cost of these revaluations amounts to 2,000 million euros in a full year. The number of officials affected amounts to 1.2 million people (870,000 teachers, 330,000 supervisors), or 1,666 euros on average per year and per person employed in National Education, or 139 euros more per month.

Finally, the government announced the Budget that would be dedicated to one of Emmanuel Macron’s promises to create an educational innovation fund (the FIP) that will finance projects carried out locally by educational teams to adapt their teaching methods. closer to the needs of students. This fund, which is presented as an “extension of the Marseille plan on a large scale”, will have an endowment that will reach 300 million euros in 2025 and 500 million at the end of the five-year period.