Staffing incentive allowance

You will be paid this allowance if you are a teacher employed in a school identified by the Ministry as requiring additional support for recruitment or retention.

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  • Teachers and Kaiako
  • Boards

About the allowance

You will be paid a staffing incentive allowance if you are a teacher or primary principal employed in a school or kura that the Ministry has identified as needing additional support for recruitment or retention.

Teachers are not eligible to receive both the staffing incentive allowance and the priority teacher supply allowance.

Eligible schools may be changed by the Ministry of Education as needs change.  This won't happen more than once a year, and only after consultation with employee representatives.  This list has been updated for 2024.

For more information, please contact: teacher.supply@education.govt.nz.

Eligibility and allowance conditions

The staffing incentive allowance is for:

  • primary teachers
  • secondary teachers
  • area school teachers
  • primary principals.

You will receive $1,000 per annum if you are employed:

  • at an eligible school
  • full-time (1 FTTE)
  • permanent or long-term relief (2 consecutive terms or more).

Where to find this in your collective agreement

The staffing incentive allowance is set out in the collective agreements as follows:

Clause 3.16.1 – Primary Teachers' Collective Agreement

Clause 4.12 – Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement

Clause 3.20 – Area School Teachers’ Collective Agreement

Clause 6.2.4 – Primary Principals’ Collective Agreement

Eligible schools

Eligible schools may be changed by the Ministry of Education as needs change. This won’t happen more than once a year, and only after consultation with employee representatives.

This list includes primary, secondary and area schools.

School number School name

1

161

176

398

730

1016

1035

1046

1053

1055

1056

1075

1081

1085

1086

1106

1109

1114

1119

1124

1214

1323

1385

1398

1405

1553

1593

1673

1675

1676

1706

1722

1736

1748

1759

1771

1778

1806

1808

1896

1923

1971

1998

2032

2052

2060

2084

2086

2105

2173

2185

2191

2195

2200

2253

2267

2371

2391

2401

2405

2407

2413

2420

2428

2463

2556

2578

2585

2587

2594

2609

2611

2616

2625

2627

2642

2649

2657

2658

2664

2672

2698

2703

2705

2706

2710

2712

2718

2732

2736

2739

2855

2962

3041

3064

3070

3119

3188

3199

3204

3342

3343

3363

3368

3387

3406

3432

3441

3442

3452

3476

3553

3566

3592

3724

3732

3764

3767

3789

3802

3837

3838

3840

3932

3953

3955

3961

3980

3984

3990

4030

4036

4218

Te Kura o Te Kao

Benneydale School

Ohura Valley Primary

Takitimu Primary School

Porangahau School

Horeke School

Kohukohu School

Te Kura o Mātihetihe

Motatau School

Ngataki School

Ngunguru School

Pakotai School

Peria School

Pouto School

Pukenui School (Kaitaia)

Tapora School

Te Hapua School

Tinopai School

Umawera School

Waiotira School

Awhitu District School

Kaiaua School

Mulberry Grove School

Okiwi School

Orere School

Waioneke School

Kaitoke School (Claris)

TKKM o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou

Ruakituri School

Te Mahia School

Colville School

Galatea School

Hauturu School

TKKM o Huiarau

Kaingaroa Forest School

Kawhia School

Kinohaku School

Te Kura Mana Maori Maraenui

Marotiri School

Piripiri School

Reporoa School

Te Kura o Tahaaroa

Te Akau School

Tirohanga School

Waikaretu School

Waingaro School

Te Kura Mana Māori o Whangaparaoa

Wharepapa South School

Awahono School – Grey Valley

Huiakama School

Makahu School

Marco School

Matiere School

Mokau School

Tokirima School

Whareorino School

Kaitieke School

Mangamahu Primary School

Moawhango School

National Park School

Ngamatapouri School

Orautoha School

Papanui Junction School

Pukeokahu School

Taoroa School

Elsthorpe School

Hiruharama School

Kereru School

Kotemaori School

Makarika School

Mata School

Matawai School

Motu School

Ohuka School

Omakere School

Patoka School

Potaka School

Putere School

Putorino School

Rere School

Sherenden and Districts School

Te Pohue School

Tikitiki School

Tiniroto School

Hatea-A-Rangi

Tutira School

Waerenga-O-Kuri School

Waimarama School

Weber School

Whangara School

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Whatatutu

Havelock School

Pongaroa School

Tinui School

Waitaria Bay School

Whareama School

TKKM o Kawakawa mai Tawhiti

Dovedale School

Lake Rotoiti School

Maruia School

Fox Glacier School

Franz Josef Glacier School

Haast School

Hanmer Springs School

Kaingaroa School (Chatham Islands)

Lake Tekapo School

Mayfield School (Mid-Canterbury)

Mt Somers Springburn School

Aoraki Mount Cook School

Okains Bay School

Pitt Island School

Te One School

Waiau School

Whataroa School

Clutha Valley School

Duntroon School

Macraes Moonlight School

Makarora Primary School

Omarama School

Poolburn School

Strath Taieri School

Tahakopa School

Taieri Beach School

Balfour School

Garston School

Glenorchy School

Halfmoon Bay School

Lumsden School

Mararoa School

Mossburn School

Tokanui School

Waikaia School

TKKM o Tokomaru

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