Details Inside Teachers’ New Allowances Payrise. Teachers working in cities will benefit the most from the Sh13 billion release of teachers’ salaries and allowances adjustments made by the government in the last phase of the 2021–2025 pay arrangement.
Teachers working in Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Nakuru, and Eldoret received the highest housing allowances, ranging from 4,500 to Sh50,000, according to information released by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Nairobi-based teachers will be ecstatic because they received a housing allowance of Sh50,000, making them the highest paid teachers.
The lowest-paid teacher in this category received Sh6,750 for housing.
These above details on the new salary and allowances are contained in a circular dated August 29 .
These details were released by TSC Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia.
On the other hand, those employed teachers working in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru Cities, Nyeri, Eldoret, Thika, Kisii, Malindi and Kitale got a housing allowance of between Sh4,500 and Sh35,000 respectively.
Details Inside Teachers’ New Allowances Payrise
The circular released on Thursday revealed that TSC allocated payment teachers on the clusters grouping teachers based on the areas they teach from four to three.
Teachers based in Nairobi fall under cluster one while others on the rest of the cities are put together under cluster two.
According to TSC circular, those teachers serving in all other regions now fall under cluster 3 and will take home between Sh3,850 and Sh25,000 per month as house allowances.
In as much as housing allowance is a significant financial boost for teachers,more especially those in high-cost areas, the fact is that the allowance in Cluster 3 may not be sufficient to cover the whole amount of housing cost, more so in urban areas.
The above variation in payment at some time could lead to financial strain for teachers in these regions.
Even with this scenario,the above varying allowances across different clusters have been evidently been contributing to disparities in the quality of life for teachers.
A part from the house allowances, every individual TSC teachers will also get commuter, hardship, disability and annual leave allowances.
After the adjustments, the other allowances teachers will receive are as follows;
- Commuter allowance between Sh4,000 and Sh16,000.
- annual leave allowance spread between Sh4,000 and Sh10,000.
- Disability allowance flatrate token of Sh20,000.
- hardship allowance of between Sh6,600 and Sh38,100