Base FTE salaries for graduate and top-of-scale classroom teachers across Australia's eight state and territory public school systems. Every figure comes from the Enterprise Agreement, award, or rate sheet that set it.
| Jurisdiction ↕ | Graduate (2026) ↕ | Top-of-scale (2026) ↕ | Gap ↕ | EA timeline ↕ | Status ↕ | Sources |
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Solid = agreed rates through to nominal EA expiry. Dashed = last agreed rate, frozen after expiry until a new agreement takes effect.
When each jurisdiction's data was last checked, and what's changed. Full citations are in the detail cards above.
Figures exclude employer superannuation, allowances, and loadings — including NT remote/location loadings, which are a substantial part of actual NT teacher pay.
The highest step a classroom teacher can reach without promotion to Highly Accomplished Teacher, Lead Teacher, or any equivalent leadership or executive classification. The exact classification used per jurisdiction is noted in each detail card.
Step 1 of the entry-level teacher classification. In most jurisdictions this is the four-year-trained graduate rate.
Show only increases already agreed in each current Enterprise Agreement. When an EA expires, the projection line ends — subsequent pay depends on future bargaining outcomes. Where an in-principle agreement is not yet ratified, projected rates are shown with a note.
Current — in force and not expired. Expired, in negotiation — nominal expiry passed, agreement still operative while a new one is negotiated. In negotiation — new agreement being negotiated before expiry.
Every salary figure links to the Enterprise Agreement, award, or rate sheet it came from. Source links and access dates are in each jurisdiction's detail card, and collected in the Provenance section.