**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** From: "Adele Raemer and Laurie Levy" <raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: teachers' wages Just saw this in Ha'aretz: Adele Report: Some 40% of teachers earn less than average wage By Einav Ben Yehuda Some 40 percent of teachers earn salaries NIS 1,500 less than the average monthly national wage, a Finance Ministry report said on Monday. The report on public sector spending for 2003, released on Monday by treasury wages director Yuval Rachlevsky, highlighted the low salaries earned by Israeli teachers and found salary irregularities among 14 percent of the institutions surveyed. Teachers' real wages in 2003 dropped 6.5 percent compared to 2002. The report also revealed that more than 40 percent of teachers earned low or very low salaries. Twenty-eight thousand one hundred teachers, 37 percent of the nation's total, earned an average of NIS 5,500 per month. This salary is NIS 1,500 less than the average national salary. Another 3,487 teachers earned average monthly salaries of NIS 3,930. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/554900.html ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####