In February of this year, the Ministry of Education of the Nation set The minimum teaching salary for the position of a common degree teacher with a simple day without seniority (or its equivalent in chair hours) at $ 500,000where there were no peers to update those values. As a reference, in the same period to not be poor, according to INDEC data, A type family needed $ 1,057,923while the bomber of destitution was $ 468,108.
“In the Good Air Provinces, in February the teaching salary was located in $ 591,762.55 For simple day without seniority and almost double full -time. In CABA$ 704,017 for the position of GRADE MASTER SIMPLE AND $ 1,408,034 For full -time. Santa Fe is one of the provinces that lost the most in its region and Mendoza In spite $ 610,000 For teachers with 11 years old. This picture did not vary much until today, ”he reviewed From Luca about the salary reality of teachers in the country.
In that sense, From Luca He pointed out that “working full -time, hopefully, the teaching salary is of poverty. Which leads to a substantive part of teaching to resort to multi -employment outside the education sector, in general, in the form of ‘changueo’.”
The courage of the government cut in resources was very strong. According to data that CIECS contributed, in the country The provinces finance $ 750 over $ 1,000 that are allocated to education. “Compared to the region, The average teaching salary – mediated in dollars – is half of the Brazilian and the fourth part of their Colombian peers. Our teachers are the worst payments in the region, having a degree superior to those of other Latin American countries ”, added From Luca In dialogue with Scope.
Between 2023 and 2025, according to CEICs analysis, The education spending made by Nation fell from 1.48% of GDP to 0.88%which implies: University System, Fonid, Compensating Fund -both affect the teaching salary -, connectivity, distribution of books, continuous training, among other items. “The painting would not seem to improve by 2026 and between 2023 and 2024 accumulates a 40% reduction in spending,” said Luca.
“That rhythm is observed in each of the 24 jurisdictions of the country. It has some variations, of course, but they do not alter that general dynamic. If we consider that 80% of the educational expense is concentrated in ‘personal’, less than 3% in goods and between 12 and 13% in transfers to the private sector to face, mostly, payment of salaries. Perhaps the slow but sustained deterioration of the Argentine society has something to explain to this process that explains something to explain this process that explains something to explain to this process that explains this process to explain to this process It crosses our education, ”he reflected.
University financing
The situation in universities is worrisome, not only for the resources destined for wages and infrastructure, but also for the funds that Financies Finans of Research and Community Service programs (which is called the University Extension), one of the pillars of higher education in the country.
For Javier Curcioprofessor and researcher (Affop Iiep – UBA CONICET) “The presidential veto exposes the tensions between the ordering of public accounts and the preservation of higher education as a strategic development policy.”
Law No. 27,795 on Financing of University Education and recomposition of the teaching salary approved last August in Congress and vetoed this Wednesday by Milei, was intended to “guarantee the protection and support of university financing through the update of the real value of the budget of national universities, salary recomposition and increase in scholarship Milei on the fiscal imbalance of the measure.
“According to the Congress Budget Office, Its application would imply a fiscal cost of $ 1.96 billion in 2025equivalent to 0.23% of GDP. It is a relevant effort, although not excessive compared to other public spending areas faced by the Government, ”the specialist told this medium.
According to the reports and surveys that month by month performs the AFISPOP IIEP – UBAsince the sanction of the Educational Financing Law in 2005, the resources allocated to the higher educational level from the national public sector “showed an increasing trend to reach a maximum of 0.84% of GDP in 2017.” Since then it began “a descending path that positioned it at 0.72% of GDP in 2023 and 0.57% in 2024,” they said.
In this regard, Curcio He warned that this decline in financing refers to levels of 20 years ago in the field of budget for universities. “The budget data in force for 2025 (which was extended from the previous year without the approval of the Congress for the second consecutive year) indicate a projection equivalent to 0.50% by 2025, if the current credits that do not contemplate the recomposition provided by the aforementioned law,” he explained.
“Said in other words, In the last eight years the relative effort of the State to finance national universities will have been reduced in a proportion equivalent to 40% of the maximum observed in 2017rolling the investment level to two decades ago, ”said the teacher and researcher.
Teacher Day: The ranking of wages in the provinces
Taking into account the survey of the Teaching Salary Indicative Report Prepared by the Ministry of Education of the Nation, whose latest information contains data from March of this year, the situation of teaching salaries throughout the country can be glimpsed. The official report It shows how the salary evolution of education workers, the composition of admission (remunerative components vs non -remunerative) is, how much the teachers win according to each province and the additional bonds/extras/extras that they receive as a complement in their assets.
The survey takes as a reference the gross salary of a degree teacher with 10 years old (MG10) – at the month of March 2025 – and exposes which are the jurisdictions that lead the list with the best salaries such as those that are among the least salaries pay.
EDUCATION EXPENSE 2001-2023 CEICS
Romina de Luca – Ceics
Teaching salary: The five provinces with higher salaries
The highest wages are in the south of the country and in Patagonia, where the incidence of the cost of living and the additional regional ones push the assets above the national average:
- Tierra del Fuego: $ 1,330,376 (the highest in the country)
- SAnta Cruz: around $ 1,300,000
- Neuquén: $ 1,300,000 (with the highest basic salary nationwide)
- Black River: $ 1,184,371
- La Pampa: $ 965,725
Teaching salary: The five provinces with lower salaries
At the other end, several northern provinces and the coast have significantly lower teaching salaries, even below the $ 900,000 brutus per month.
- Catamarca: $ 663,920 (the lowest in the country)
- San Juan: $ 731,254
- MISSIONS: Around $ 740,000
- Entre Ríos: $ 852,288
- Corrientes: $ 852,381
Provinces with higher teaching salary increases
The report also measured the evolution of salaries at the time of publication. In this way, the jurisdictions that showed a higher percentage of salary recomposition are:
- Santiago del Estero: +181%
- Mendoza: +102%
- San Juan: +102%
- Jujuy: +96%
- Tierra del Fuego: +87%
Salary gaps that concern
The differences are noticeable: while a Fuegian teacher with 10 years of age exceeds the figure of $ 1,300,000, his Catamarca couple barely reaches $ 660,000. The figures not only mark a regional contrast, but also impacts the offer to attract and retain teachers, in a context where education remains one of the main social demands.
In it Teacher’s Daythe report numbers function as a reminder that, beyond speeches, recognition of the teaching task is still strongly conditioned by the issue of wages and the accompaniment of effective educational policies so that students accumulate effective learning and with value for their future.
Complete teaching salary indicative report
Source: Ambito
