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Northern Ireland FE pay scales

Salary scales for Northern Ireland FE colleges.

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

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

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].

Northern Ireland FE lecturer salary scales
LECTURER
Point1 Sep 2013 (£) 1 Sep 2014 (£)
122,58622,609
225,970£25,996
328,14628,174
430,48530,515
532,74532,778
Threshold payment2,6092,612
Deane payment1,3571,358
Northern Ireland principal lecturer salary scales
PRINCIPAL LECTURER
College size groupingScaleRange of points on scale (£) 2013Range of points on scale (£) 2014
E3 and higher - 5 & 6543,690 - 47,49843,734 - 47,545
 644,968 - 48,77745,013 - 48,826
Note: These scales do not show the £2,612 (2014) 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
PART-TIME HOURLY-PAID TEACHERS
CategoryStandard of coursesRate per hour
(£) 2013		Rate per hour
(£) 2013
II/IIICourses 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 qualification35.6735.67
IVCourses 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 standard30.4730.47
VCourses other than those described above22.3722.37
Last updated: 26 July 2019