Guidance

Teachers' pay grant methodology

Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers' pay grant.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 14 September 2018
• Last updated: 21 October 2022
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  1. 21 October 2022

     The information about the provision of funding for non-maintained special schools during the 2022 to 2023 financial year was updated.

  2. 28 April 2022

     Updated for the 2022 to 2023 allocations of the teachers' pay grant.

  3. 28 October 2021

     Updated 'Teachers' pay grant methodology' to reflect allocations published in October 2021 for September 2021 to March 2022.

  4. 17 February 2021

     Updated to clarify information for the 2021 to 2022 financial year for institutions not paid through the national funding formulae.

  5. 13 November 2020

     Updated to reflect that the September 2020 to March 2021 allocations have now been published. These updates do not include any new announcements.

  6. 21 August 2020

     Updated the methodology with the rates used for 2020 to 2021.

  7. 27 February 2020

     For the 5-month period from April 2020 to August 2020, rates will be five-sevenths of the 7-month rates from September 2019 to March 2020, and payments will use October 2019 pupil numbers for 5 to 16 year olds.

  8. 23 October 2019

     Updated to include 2019 to 2020 figures.

  9. 27 September 2019

     Page updated with rates in line with increases in the total amount of the grant.

  10. 3 July 2019

      Detailed allocations section of 'Teachers' pay grant methodology' updated.

  11. 25 April 2019

      New and growing schools adjustments information added for 2019 to 2020 allocations.

  12. 13 March 2019

      Updated 'Teachers' pay grant methodology' with revised rates for primary schools.

  13. 28 November 2018

      Corrected data error in 'Rates for primary schools'.

  14. 14 September 2018

      First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 10 August 2026

This content is now out of date.

For mainstream and specialist schools, see Schools budget support grant 2026 (SBSG 26).

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This guidance is for:

• local authorities
• school leaders
• school teachers
• governing bodies and their representatives

It relates to local-authority-maintained schools and academies in England.