* All teachers will receive five per cent increase on their salaries.
* The Union was meeting with the Ministry almost nine months now to decide on salary increase.
* The payout that was made in 2002 brought salaries of teachers in the lowest category to $20,000.
* Teachers with degrees in related subjects receive $53,072, which amounts to $20,000 more than persons in the Public Service with corresponding qualifications.
* Trained Graduate Teachers: teachers who would have undergone training and posses a Degree receive approximately $59,325, while persons in the Public Service wit the corresponding qualifications would earn $34,242.
* Persons joining the profession with five subjects at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) receive $23,880. Teachers with two A’ Level subjects receive $27,063 whereas in the public service that person would receive $21,409.
* Other teachers with three subjects at the A’ Level Examination receive $38,400, which is as much as a trained teacher, but that person would receive only $24,000 in the public service.
* In May, Cabinet made the decision to pay between 40 and 60 million dollars to teacher, but only if teachers returned to the job for the new school year.
* This was decided with the intention of bringing teachers salaries to the level of pubic servants, as the GTU was asking.