Seven grades for Qatari teachers from next academic year

Friday, 25 May 2012

DOHA: Monthly pay packages of Qatari teachers of Independent Schools will be more than three times those of their foreign counterparts, figures reported by Al Sharq suggest.

Regulations proposed to be put into effect from the new academic year beginning September this year groups Qatari teachers into seven grades.

Starting gross monthly emoluments of a teacher in the top grade would be more than QR52,000 and would go up to QR60,000 over a period of time.

Even a teacher in the last grade would be drawing almost QR25,000 a month as gross salary, which is much more than the monthly pay packet of a senior expatriate teacher (of Independent School).

Local Arabic daily Al Arab had reported on Monday proposed salary slabs for non-Qatari teachers of Independent Schools whereby the average monthly emoluments of a senior teacher do not work out to be more than QR20,000.

The starting basic salary of a Qatari teacher in the top grade has been proposed at QR40,000 with provisions for annual increment of between one and six percent of the basic based on performance.

There would be no salary increment for a teacher whose performance is not found to be satisfactory. Qatari teachers would additionally enjoy social security and would be entitled to post-retirement benefits, Al Sharq reported.

Teachers traveling overseas for official work or as part of official delegations would be entitled to daily allowance of QR2,500, said the daily.