Kelvin Taylor “Blasts” teachers, says they are paid less than $250/Month
No Ghanaian Teacher is paid more than $250/Month as Kelvin Taylor takes on the government and teachers in his latest critique.
The monthly salary of the Ghanaian teacher has been flogged as very low and dehumanizing by Kelvin Taylor in a new video making rounds on social media. The critical commentator on issues bothering Ghana on all fronts in his latest video on teachers and their salaries has bemoaned the very low salary paid to teachers working under the Ghana Education Service.
“Let me tell the Ghanaian teachers something, you will suffer, you will suffer very much, I have said it and will always say it. Those who defend the Akuffo Addo government on the radio are mostly teachers” Kelvin Taylor stated in the video.
No Ghanaian Teacher is paid more than $250/Month
No Ghanaian Teacher is paid more than $250/Month per the information shared by the journalist. Sharing the gross salaries of top teachers in higher positions, he stated that, the high-ranked Ghanaian teachers starting from Senior Superintendent II are paid a gross of GHS2363.00 while the Assistant Director’s Basic Grade salary is 3426.00.
He added that when taxes and social security deductions are charged against these salaries, no teacher would earn above $250 which when converted to Ghana cedis is not more than GHS2000.00.
He said he could not fathom how teachers call radio stations to praise the government of the day when their take-home pay is so low and insulting. How can you live on such a peanut and succeed in life? He quizzed.
Before the above video surfaced on social media, Ghanaeducation.org had commenced a survey to find out the perception of teachers regarding their salaries and salary expectations.
In this survey, we considered the population proportion 50% of 14800 teachers as our population, given a 95% confidence level and a margin of error of 5% the survey needed a minimum of 375 respondents from the population.
This means 375 or more measurements/surveys are needed to have a confidence level of 95% that the real value is within ±5% of the measured/surveyed value. An online sample size calculator was used to obtain the sample size.
Three important questions were posed to teachers. There were as follows.
#1. Ghanaians teachers are better paid
A total of 408 respondents answered this question, which sought to seek the general view of teachers regarding their salary and if they felt they were receiving pay worth their work and effort. Out of the 408 respondents, 55 representing 13% indicated they are paid well while 353 respondents (87%) said No, they are not paid well.
#2 How much more do you think you deserve as a monthly income?
Given that teachers have been knocking on the doors of government for better conditions of service, with their salaries taking centre stage in this call, we sought to know how much teachers felt their monthly income should be increased. A total of 400 teachers responded to this survey question. 4% (16 respondents) said they expect their monthly income to increase by at most GHS200.00, 3% (11 respondents) expect it to be increased by GHS400, 39 (10%) expect a GHS600 monthly upgrade while and 334 (83%) expect an increase up to GHS1000 of their monthly earnings.
#3. If the government was to pay hourly rates to teachers, how much would you recommend?
The final survey question sought to discover the hourly rate teachers would prefer if they were to be paid an hourly rate. While 655 responded to this question, 60% thus 394 respondents expect an hourly rate of up to GHS100 per month, 25% 162 respondents want up to GHS79 hourly rate while the remaining 15% (99 teachers out of the 655) prefer up to GHS49 as the hourly rate.
The data from the teachers preferred hourly rate showed that the least teachers expect to be paid is, GHS4000 whiles the highest is GHS20,000. However, no teacher currently has a gross pay that equals $500.00 and many more take home less than $250 a month after the deduction of taxes and other statutory charges.
The Ghanaian teacher is also not paid more than GHS20.00 per the current salaries they earn. Per the table below, if teachers are paid an hourly rate of GHS20.00, that will amount to GHS160.00 a day and translates into GHS4000 a month. All things held constant, a mason who works full 25 days a month in Ghana is better off compared to a teacher.
The hard work of teachers in building the needed foundation for learners is key. They continue to nature these young minds year after year until their effort makes students useful human capital for the nation. Ghanaian teachers deserve better, until teacher unions unite on matters such as salaries and shelve their harmful political colours as leaders of the various unions and members of the chalk fraternity, peanuts paid teachers will be glorified and teachers will continue to be made to believe that they are being favoured by the government.
Preferred teachers’ hourly rate | Frequency | Percentage | Teachers’ Monthly Work Hours | Expected lowest pay per hourly rate in GHS | Expected highest pay per hourly rate in GHS |
GHS20-GHS49 | 99 | 15% | 200 | 4000 | 9800 |
GHS50-GHS79 | 162 | 25% | 200 | 10000 | 15800 |
GHS80-GHS100 | 394 | 60% | 200 | 16000 | 20000 |
Total | 655 | 100% |
With the rising cost of living and the unstable strength of the Ghana cedi, standard of living is becoming a big issue as take-home pays received by workers, in general, cannot support their families. No Ghanaian Teacher is paid more than $250/Month per Kelvin Taylor’s assertion. Our simple but eye-opening survey shows that teachers are not happy with their pay and would prefer their least pay to be GHS4000 or its the current monthly salary should be increased by GHS1000.00 to help them meet their daily needs for the hard work they do.
No Ghanaian Teacher is paid more than $250/Month…Do you agree with the findings of the survey? Why or Why Not?
Source: Ghanaeducation.org
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