Teachers’ will be paid under new relevelling salary structure this week

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Minister of Finance and Treasury Harry Kuma has announced that the teachers’ new salary structure will be effected in the pay run on May 15, this Thursday.

Kuma, speaking in Parliament this week, in response to the Speech from the Throne on Monday said: “I would like to inform this Honorable House that the relevelling of the teachers’ new salary structure and normal Police salary will be effected in the pay run on May 15 2025, that Thursday this week. This will include the payout of the backdated (to February 1 as per Cabinet Decision) portion of the teachers’ relevelled salary, as well as the new relevelled salary structure henceforth.

He said: “I would like to inform this Honorable House that the relevelling of the teachers’ new salary structure and normal Police salary will be effected in the pay run on May 15 2025, that Thursday this week. This will include the payout of the backdated (to February 1 as per Cabinet Decision) portion of the teachers’ relevelled salary, as well as the new relevelled salary structure henceforth.”

He told Parliament that the government is currently implementing the Solomon Islands Education Act approved in 2023. Adding, Ministry of Education, in collaboration with and support from MOFT and MPS, have successfully completed the cleansing and proper alignment of teacher’s payroll data in late April.

Kuma admitted that this has been a meticulous exercise that took more than six months to complete, as it was critically necessary to have been completed at 100 percent of all teachers’ payroll data.

“This has enabled the subsequent adjustments and testing to be conducted in SIG’s Aurion Payroll System (APS) from end of April up to now to enable the smooth migration of data between MEHRD and APS,” said Kuma.