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Mykolaiv's budget for 2025 increased by ₴46 million due to education subvention

Миколаївська міська рада отримає 46 мільйонів гривень субвенції від держави на освіту. Фото: архів «NikVesti»Mykolaiv City Council will receive 46 million hryvnias in subventions from the state for education. Photo: archive NikVesti

Mykolaiv City Council will receive 46 million hryvnias in subventions from the state for education.

This was announced on Tuesday, 28 January, during a meeting of the budget committee, by Vira Sviatelyk, director of the finance department of the Mykolaiv City Council, NikVesti reports.

According to the draft decision, it is proposed to increase the revenue side of the general budget fund by 46.2 million hryvnias at the expense of a subvention from the state budget.

The largest part of the additional funding — 30.4 million hryvnias — has been allocated for additional payments to school teachers.

In addition, 6.27 million hryvnias of the subvention will be used to support children with special educational needs.

Another 9.54 million hryvnias of the subvention will be used to develop «The New Ukrainian School» and improve the quality of education.

Members of the budget committee supported this draft decision for submission to the city council session.

Teacher salaries in 2024

As you know, members of the city council are planning to appeal to the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to increase the salaries of teachers in Mykolaiv. They note that since 1 April, the minimum wage in Ukraine has increased from 7100 hryvnias to 8000 hryvnias. However, teachers' salaries are currently lower than the minimum wage.

The system of remuneration for educators includes a basic rate and certain allowances. The salaries of teachers are influenced by the following factors:

  1. Allowances for length of service (length of service: 20% for experienced teachers and 10% for young teachers);
  2. Prestige of work (from 5% to 30%);
  3. Classroom management, checking student work;
  4. Work with students with special educational needs, classroom management, etc.

Depending on the availability of certain allowances and surcharges and their amount, teachers will receive different salaries.

The Minister of Education and Science, Oksen Lisovyi, initially announced that teachers' salaries would be raised in January and April 2024. This was supposed to be due to an increase in the education subvention, most of which is earmarked for teacher salaries. However, teachers did not receive the announced salary increase.

Later, however, he said that Ukrainian educators should not expect a salary increase until the end of the full-scale war. He explained this by the difficult situation in the budget.

At the same time, there is a shortage of teachers of various subjects in Mykolaiv region. Educational institutions are most in need of teachers of chemistry, physics and biology.

And due to the outflow of schoolchildren, Mykolaiv decided to combine classes in educational institutions that will work remotely. As reported, some teachers will have to be laid off.

At the same time, the average salary of officials has increased by 32% in four months and exceeded 50,000 hryvnias.

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