Pay Breakdown › Career earnings
What will I earn over my career?
Public schools. Your pay added up year by year at today's printed rates, moving up the scale only where your state's rule says so. Nothing is stored.
Example: New South Wales, from Step 1 (Graduate), 10 years. Change it
$928,820
before tax over 10 years
Where it stops: Step 1 (Graduate). NSW's rule gives no step a year (it matches a past salary instead), so the count stays on Step 1 (Graduate). The rule: Proficient teachers can ask NSW to match their base salary from the past five years (no allowances, full-time rate), at the next step up if it falls between steps. Interstate service also counts in whole terms of 50 days. Source
| Year | Step | Salary | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $92,882 |
| 2 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $185,764 |
| 3 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $278,646 |
| 4 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $371,528 |
| 5 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $464,410 |
| 6 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $557,292 |
| 7 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $650,174 |
| 8 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $743,056 |
| 9 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $835,938 |
| 10 | Step 1 (Graduate) | $92,882 | $928,820 |
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How it's worked out
At today's rates: actual pay will be higher if rises continue.
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