{"id":4016,"date":"2026-01-08T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:32:37","slug":"government-confirms-new-minimum-wage-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/ametiuhingute-tegevus\/government-confirms-new-minimum-wage-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Government confirms new minimum wage for teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Estonian government confirmed that the minimum wage for teachers in full-time employment in 2026 will rise to \u20ac1,970 a month. The government will also increase the teachers&#8217; salary fund by 10 percent from its 2025 level.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum wage for teachers is set to increase by 8.2 percent, or \u20ac150 a month, the ministry announced on Thursday. The minimum wage for teachers applies to those who meet the qualification requirements, are currently in teacher training, hold a master&#8217;s degree or are in the process of acquiring one.<\/p>\n<p>The government will allocate a differentiation component of 22 percent for each teaching position, meaning teachers are paid a salary in line with their career level, responsibilities and professional duties.<\/p>\n<p>On March 1 this year, Estonian will introduce a national career model for teachers, which defines career levels based on professional standards and corresponding salary coefficients.<\/p>\n<p>According to the career model, the minimum salary for teachers (\u20ac1,970 a month), will be paid to beginner teachers and teachers at entry level.<\/p>\n<p>The salary coefficient for senior teachers is 1.1 times that of the minimum \u2013 \u20ac2,167 a month \u2013, and for highly experienced teachers, 1.3 times the minimum, or \u20ac2,561 per month.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Estonian government confirmed that the minimum wage for teachers in full-time employment in 2026 will rise to \u20ac1,970 a month. The government will also increase the teachers&#8217; salary fund by 10 percent from its 2025 level. The minimum wage for teachers is set to increase by 8.2 percent, or \u20ac150 a month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,58,30,93,45,53],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ametiuhingute-tegevus","tag-ametiuhing","tag-eesti","tag-haridus","tag-haridustootajad","tag-tootajad","tag-tootamine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eakl.ee\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}