Teachers across Europe have gone on strike in the past year for better pay and working conditions. We look at the differences in salaries.
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00:00 Thousands of teachers in Portugal protested in Lisbon on the 14th of January after several days of partial strikes.
00:07 Teachers in England and Wales announced on the 16th of January that they have voted to take strike action
00:12 joining teachers in Scotland who have already held strikes in January.
00:16 But how do teacher salaries compare across Europe?
00:19 The country with the highest annual gross starting salaries in public schools, a lower secondary, was Luxembourg,
00:26 earning over €69,000 per year, almost three times that of the EU average,
00:32 and over 16 times that of Albania who sit at the bottom of the chart with an annual €4,233.
00:40 The UK, placed above the EU average, with over €29,000 per year, earning an extra €4,033.
00:48 The five highest earners were Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Iceland.
00:54 The countries that earned the least were Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania.
01:04 Learn more about the strike in Portugal at www.parintest.org/strike