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Salary Grades and Expenditure
kindergarten | primary | secondary | tertiary

Secondary Schools
Special note: With the exception of salary range midpoints all values have been provided with upward rounding to the first digit. As all calculations were made without rounding, hand calculations of the displayed figures are likely to result in slightly different results from those provided.

Government, Government Aided, and Per capita Grant Schools
Salary grade Salary range (HK dollars per month) **Number of personnel ***Monthly expenditure per salary grade ****Esitmated Annual Expenditure
Low High Midpoint

Principal I 76,755 88,425 82,590.0 384 31,714,560  
Principal II 63,005 74,075 68,540.0 9 616,860  
Senior Education Officer 57,730 65,725 61,727.5 610 37,653,775  
Education Officer  48,140 60,405 54,272.5 4,378 237,605,005  
Assistant Education Officer 17,200 46,810 32,005.5 10,913 349,270,565  
Principal Assistant Teacher 48,140 60,405 54,272.5 211 11,451,498  
Senior Assistant Teacher  40,785 52,705 46,745.0 649  30,337,505  
Assistant Teacher 32,415 38,970 35,692.5 1,305  46,578,713  
Assistant Teacher (workshop) 32,415 38,970 35,692.5 24  856,620  
Certificate Teacher 17,220 31,005 24,112.5 4,215  101,634,288  
Certificate Teacher (workshop) 17,220 31,005 24,112.5 63 1,519,088   
Other ranks*     37,311  10 373,110   
Subtotal       22,771  849,611,485 HK$ 10,195,337,820

Source: Department of Education. 1994. Code of Aid for Secondary Schools. Data provided by the Office of the Principal Information Officer, Department of Education.
Department of Education, Statistics Section. 2002 (May). Teacher Statistics 2001. Table 4.5 Distribution of secondary school teachers by rank and sex, p.83.
Notes: * As no salary information could be found for the category Other ranks, the average salary for all ranks was employed by way of estimate. This estimate is likely biased upward.
  ** Includes only permanent and long term contract personnel, who are either in post or on leave.
  *** Average monthly expenditure for each salary grade was obtained by multiplying the midpoint of each salary range times the number of teachers.
  **** TThe estimated annual expenditure for all salary grades was obtained by summing and multiplying by twelve.
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Private Secondary Schools
Salary grade Salary range (HK dollars per month) **Number of personnel ***Monthly expenditure per salary grade ****Estimated annual expenditure
*Estimated average

Private school head      82268 63 5,182,884  
Private school teacher      36521 1632 59,602,653  
 Subtotal       1695  64,785,537 HK$ 777,426,448 

Source: Department of Education. 1994. Code of Aid for Secondary Schools. Data provided by the Office of the Principal Information Officer, Department of Education.
Department of Education, Statistics Section. 2002 (May). Teacher Statistics 2001. Table 4.5 Distribution of secondary school teachers by rank and sex, p.83.
Department of Education, Statistics Section. 2002 (May). Teacher Statistics 2001. Table 4.2 Number of teaching posts, teachers, and vacancies in secondary schools by sector, p. 80.
Notes: * The estimated salaries for private school heads is the weighted average of the estimated salaries for public school Principals I and II. The estimated salaries for private school teachers is the weighted average of the estimated salaries for all other public school teachers below the rank of Principal II. It is likely that these estimates are downward biased.
  ** Includes only permanent and long term contract personnel, who are either in post or on leave.
  ** Average monthly expenditure for each salary grade was obtained by multiplying the estimated average salary times the number of teachers.
  *** The estimated annual expenditure for both salary grades was obtained by summing and multiplying by twelve.
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Temporary and Supply Teachers
(Government, Government Aided, Per capita Grant, and Private Schools)
Number of teachers Full-time equivalent* **Estimated average monthly salary
(HK dollars per month)		 ***Estimated monthly expenditure ****Estimated annual expenditure

557 546.2 37,311 20,379,268 HK$ 244,551,216

Source: Department of Education, Statistics Section. 2002 (May). Teacher Statistics 2001. Table 4.2 Number of teaching posts, teachers, and vacancies in secondary schools by sector, p. 80.
Notes: * A full-time equivalent is a standard unit of measurement equal to the workload of a full-time teacher.
  ** This value is based upon the average monthly salary for all permanent and full-time staff.
  *** This figure was obtained by multiplying the number of full-time equivalents by the estimated average monthly salary.
  *** The estimated annual expenditure was obtained by multiplying the estimated monthly expenditure by 12.
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Total Government Expenditure on Secondary School Teachers' Salaries
 
Permanent and full-time teachers Estimated annual subtotals  FTE Adjustment factor  Adjusted amounts
  • Government, government aided, and per capital grant schools
10,195,337,820    
  • Private schools
777,426,448    
Subtotal   10,972,764,268  0.995287338  10,921,053,334
Temporary and supply teachers (All sectors) 244,551,218  already adjusted  244,551,218
Total
   HK$ 11,165,604,552
 
 The full time equivalent adjustment factor: 24350.7 fte / 24466 = 0.995287338. The 24350.7 full-time equivalents were obtained from Table 4.2 on page 80 of Teacher Statistics 2001 published by the Department of Education. This adjustment is likely biased downward.

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