KNEC New Payment Rates For 2024 Invigilators. The amount that the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) would pay its outsourced professionals this year has been adjusted.
Teachers, drivers, and security guards are among the professionals contacted. Teachers have contracts as invigilators, supervisors, and center managers.
While Knec covers the cost of transportation, it does not cover the services provided by center managers, supervisors, or invigilators.
Teachers will get slightly different compensation this year due to the administration of national exams and assessments.
The modifications come in response to secondary school teachers’ requests for more funding to administer the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams, which are set to start on October 22, 2024.
Through the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), the teachers asked for their out-of-workstation allowances to be raised by between 750 and 900 per cent.
In a letter to Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba, Kuppet Secretary-General Akello Misori proposed a new rate of Sh3,000 per day for invigilators, up from Sh400 per day (a 750 per cent rise).
KNEC New Payment Rates For 2024 Invigilators
The union wanted supervisors to be paid 3,500 per day from the Sh450 they are paid currently (a 778 per cent rise) and Sh4,500 for principals, who also act as examination centre managers during the examination period.
Currently, the principals are paid Sh500 per day and therefore this would translate to a 900 per cent increase.
“Our members have vowed to reject the current remuneration structure during the upcoming examinations. As the Cabinet secretary in charge of the Kenya National Examination’s Council (Knec) budget, we urge you to facilitate the council in compensating teachers as provided under the Human Resource Policies and Procedures Manual for the Public Service, which is the applicable benchmark across the government,” said Mr Misori in the letter.
KPSEA SUPERVISORS
sh 680 per day for 3 days equals sh 2,040
KPSEA INVIGILATORS
sh 510 per day for 3 days equals sh 1,530
KCSE SUPERVISORS
sh 680 per day for 16 days equals sh 10,880
KCSE INVIGILATORS
sh 510 per day for 16 days equals sh 8,160
CENTRE MANAGERS
sh 510 per day for both KPSEA and KCSE