Start of a series of analysis on the data of the day of the @datagovph.
Government employees have standardized salary grades that could be compared across all agencies, not just for teachers. In the dataset, the salary grades that are shown are SG11 to SG13 (Teacher) and SG18 to SG19 (Master Teacher), which are for the classroom teacher career line. There is a school administration career line.
Because of this standardization, when proposals to increase teachers' salaries are made, the salary grades are the ones that are proposed to be changed. Several lawmakers have proposed increasing their salary grades by at least 6 steps but the Association of Concerned Teachers just recommends a more conservative 3 steps.
The data only includes up to 2012, which seems to have been the last year that a salary standardization law (SSL) took effect. There have been three so-called SSLs, one in 1989 (
RA 6758), another in 1995 and another in 2009. The second and third SSLs were just joint congress resolutions and not actual republic acts.
Table: Percentage increase over the past year
|
Teacher I |
Teacher II |
Teacher III |
Master Teacher I |
Master Teacher II |
| 1996 |
22.7% |
24.6% |
25.3% |
26.5% |
26.2% |
| 1997 |
21.6% |
23.0% |
23.6% |
24.4% |
24.3% |
| 1998 |
17.7% |
18.7% |
19.1% |
19.6% |
19.5% |
| 1999 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2000 |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
| 2001 |
5.0% |
5.0% |
5.0% |
5.0% |
5.0% |
| 2002 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2003 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2004 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2005 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2006 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2007 |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
| 2008 |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
10.0% |
| 2009 |
18.1% |
18.6% |
19.2% |
30.2% |
31.1% |
| 2010 |
10.2% |
10.6% |
11.0% |
13.7% |
14.3% |
| 2011 |
9.3% |
9.6% |
9.9% |
12.1% |
12.5% |
| 2012 |
8.5% |
8.8% |
9.0% |
10.8% |
11.1% |
| 2013 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| 2014 |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
Due to a special provision in SSL3. Teacher 1 was upgraded from SG10 to SG11 and Master Teacher 1 was upgraded from SG16 to SG18, thus the bigger than expected jumps if compared to other government employees with the same salary grades.
In 2000, under the Estrada administration, a 10% across the board increase was implemented with Executive Order 1999-219 (??). In 2001, 2007 and 2008, under the Arroyo administration, there were 5%, 10% and 10% increases respectively in salary across the board for all government employees, via Executive Orders 2001-22, 2007-611 and 2008-719 respectively.
The chart above tries to adjust for inflation, using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It shows the value of their salary in terms of the number of days it could cover, using year 2000 as the base year, with 30 days. It shows that after 6 long years of no salary increase from 2001 to 2007, the value of a teacher's salary dropped to just 22.8 days, meaning that the teacher could buy 1/4 less than what could be bought six years earlier with the same salary.
Another round of salary increases is due next year if we would like to maintain the year 2000 levels of purchasing power by our teachers. The 10% and 10% across-the-board increases in 2007 and 2008 (21% not 20% due to compounding) and the four tranches of SSL3 are just enough to last until this year because of our inflation since the year 2000. The CPI will have almost doubled by next year compared to the year 2000.
Suggestions to improve the dataset
Other compensation should be included to provided a fuller picture. Additional compensation (ADCOM), for example, went up from P500 to P1500 monthly in 2006. Total compensation of teachers, or government employees in general, is made up of not just the basic salary. Fixed compensation is made up of the basic salary + ADCOM + personal economic relief allowance (PERA). Variable compensation includes hazard pay, honoraria, overtime pay, etc.
The column headers (Teacher_1_SG11) are misleading and do not reflect the reality of the teacher salary grades changing in 2009. New columns should be added to indicate these.
Several years (2002 to 2006, Gloria years) without salary increases were not included but 1999 (Erap year), a year without a salary increase was included. Consistency would be helpful.
Lines 4 and 5 have 35431 and 35735 as the value years. These are the integer values for January 1, 2007 and November 1, 2007. Again, consistency would be helpful. To simplify analysis of the data, the November 1, 2007 data was used for that year.
Here's how the dataset looks like:
Year,Teacher_I_SG11,Teacher_II_SG12,Teacher_III_SG13,Master_Teacher_I_SG18,Master_Teacher_II_SG19
1995,4902.00,5009.00,5240.00,6486.00,6901.00
1996,6013.00,6243.00,6568.00,8202.00,8712.00
35431,7309.00,7682.00,8118.00,10204.00,10825.00
35735,8605.00,9121.00,9668.00,12206.00,12938.00
1998,8605.00,9121.00,9668.00,12206.00,12938.00
1999,8605.00,9121.00,9668.00,12206.00,12938.00
2000,9466.00,10033.00,10635.00,13427.00,14232.00
2001,9939.00,10535.00,11167.00,14098.00,14944.00
2007,10933.00,11589.00,12284.00,15508.00,16438.00
2008,12026.00,12748.00,13512.00,17059.00,18082.00
2009,14198.00,15119.00,16101.00,22214.00,23703.00
2010,15649.00,16726.00,17880.00,25259.00,27088.00
2011,17099.00,18333.00,19658.00,28305.00,30474.00
2012,18549.00,19940.00,21436.00,31351.00,33859.00
References
http://data.gov.ph/catalogue/dataset/teacher-salaries-1995-2012
http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Manual-on-PCC-Chapter-3.pdf
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/67514/review-salary-standardization-law-for-govt-employees-says-ex-dbm-chief
http://incitegov.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/INCITEGov-SSL.pdf
http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/OPCCB/ios/10-EL_2006.pdf
