Northern Ireland FE pay scales

12 December 2006

Salary information for Northern Ireland FE colleges.

For the latest bargaining and campaigning information please see: FE pay in Northern Ireland

Salary scales

For the latest department head and management spines, or principal and director scales and all further notes, please see the lecturers' award letter covering the rates from 1 September 2022 [56kb].

Lecturer scales
Point	From 1 Sep 2019	From 1 Sep 2020	From 1 Sep 2021	From 1 Sep 2022
1 n	£23,542	£24,013	£24,253	£24,496
2	£27,068	£27,609	£27,885	£28,164
3	£29,336	£29,923	£30,222	£30,524
4	£31,773	£32,408	£32,732	£33,059
5	£34,129	£34,812	£35,160	£35,512
Threshold*	£2,719	£2,773	£2,801	£2,829
Deane**	£1,415	£1,443	£1,457	£1,472
* Threshold payment carried from lecturer scale, if applicable. Threshold payment carried or newly acquired on the lecturer scale ** The Deane payment is detailed in Section 6 of this circular. This payment relates to staff who have been on threshold for two years or more. (Note - pay award applied and the new rates then rounded to the nearest £1)

Northern Ireland principal lecturer salary scales
		Range of points on scale (£)
College size group	Scale	2019	2020	2021	2022
E3 and higher - 5 & 6	5	45,537 - 49,506	46,448 - 50,496	46,912 - 51,001	47,381 - 51,511
	6	46,869 - 50,839	47,806 - 51,856	48,284 - 52,375	48,767 - 52,899
Note: These scales do not show the £2,801 (September 2021)/£2,829 (September 2022) payment for lecturers on the Principal Lecturer scale who apply for and are awarded a Threshold payment or who have carried such payment from another scale.

Northern Ireland payment rates for part-time hourly-paid teachers
		Rate per hour (£)
Category	Standard of Courses	2019	2020	2021	2022
II/III	Courses above National Certificate or equivalent standard leading directly to a university degree or equivalent qualification and courses of equivalent standard but not necessarily leading to a university degree or equivalent qualification	36.03	36.03	36.39	36.75
IV	Courses above the level of the General Certificate of Secondary Education or comparable level leading directly to the National Certificate, or courses or parts of courses of a comparable standard	30.77	30.77	31.08	31.39
V	Courses other than those described above	22.59	22.59	22.82	23.05

Last updated: 14 August 2023