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Thursday, August 3, 1972

"In the meantime a new Certificated Masters' salary scale of

$1,100 to $1,750 per month will be implemented so that they will be able

to receive back pay dating from April 1, 1971."

All the various other aspects of the new structure and salaries

for teachers which had been agreed within the Senior Civil Service Council

will be similarly implemented.

The total cost of implementing the new structure is likely to

be between $50 and $60 million a year on top of the present cost of teachers'

salaries which amounts to about $340 million a year,

Government originally offered a salary of $1,025 to $1,750 for

Certificated Masters. The decision to grant them an increased starting

point of $1,100 will alone cost almost $15 million per year.

The Staff Side's proposed scale would have cost an additional

$40 million a year, he added.

The scales which had been agreed for other teachers will apply

to teachers in aided schools as well as those in Government schools. The

spokesman stressed that these generally represented very substantial increases

in pay for the 14,000 teachers in aided schools.

Release time: 8.30 p.m.