Northern Ireland FE pay scales

The below was imposed in FE lecturer salaries without agreement.

1. payment of the outstanding 0.07% increase in salary rates (including allowances ie. threshold, dean, responsibility and re-organisation) from 1 September 2015.
   This uplift applies to all staff employed under the lecturer's contract of employment (ie. associate lecturers, full-time lecturers, principal lecturers' and heads of department)
2. 1.00% increase in salary rates (including allowances ie. threshold, dean, responsibility and re-organisation) from 1 September 2017
   This uplift applies to all staff employed under the lecturer's contract of employment (i.e. associate lecturers, full-time lecturers, principal lecturers' and heads of department).
3. 1.00% increase in salary rates from 1 September 2017 relating to staff employed under the hourly paid part-time lecturer's contract.

Salary scales

Please note: the 2014 scales below are the latest official scales provided by Colleges Northern Ireland and do not reflect the impositions detailed above.

• Lecturer scales
• Principal lecturer scales
• Part-time hourly paid teacher scales

For the latest department head and management spines, or principal and director scales and all further notes, please see the lecturers' award circular [168kb] and the principals and deputy directors' award circular [188kb].