Joel is a 65-year-old retired teacher, who dedicated more than 30 years to teaching in public secondary schools. Today, he wanted to tell what his life is like after leaving the classroom. “My retirement pension is 2,700 euros gross per month, or approximately 2,454 euros net,” he explains. An amount that, as he acknowledges, “allows me to live without excess, but with peace of mind after so many years of work.”
During his professional career, Joel taught classes in different centers in the Paris region, especially in the Essonne department. “I worked in schools in REP+ areas, where many students did not have French as their mother tongue,” he explains to the media. Lefigaro. These areas, considered an educational priority, provide a salary bonus due to the complexity of the environment. “After ten years on the outskirts, I was transferred to an institute in La Roche-sur-Yon, in Vendée,” he adds.
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In that public center he taught his last classes before retiring. “I remember that my last lesson was on Maupassant’s Bel-Ami, with a fourth-grade group. It was a very symbolic way to close my teaching period,” he comments wistfully. Although he confesses that he greatly enjoyed his profession, he was also looking forward to retirement: “I really wanted to dedicate myself to other activities after so many years of teaching.”
He retired before the reform, but continues to teach as a volunteer
Joel decided to retire at the age of 61, just before the pension reform came into force in France, which raised the legal retirement age of 62 to 64 years. Therefore, it was not affected by the new system. In his last assignment, he received a gross monthly salary of 3,200 euros, including the bonus for working in priority educational areas, which was equivalent to 2,500 euros net.
Today, despite being retired, he is still linked to teaching. “I volunteer at my local community center, where I teach French to foreigners twice a week,” he explains. He assures that this work gives him great personal satisfaction. “It is a different way of teaching, with adults who really want to learn because learning French is, for them, the first step to integrating and finding work.”
Father of two adult children, Joel now enjoys a slower pace. “I continue teaching, but without the pressure of exams or bureaucracy. I feel useful and, at the same time, free,” he says.
How much does a secondary school teacher earn?
In Spain, a Secondary Education teacher earns between 2,700 and 2,900 euros gross per month, although this salary may vary depending on the autonomous community, salary supplements and seniority. Teachers are within Group A1 of the Public Administration, which is the highest level within the groups of civil servants.
For example, in Andalusia, the monthly base salary of a secondary school teacher It is 1,300.88 euros per month, an amount to which must be added the destination complement, which is about 683.75 euros, the basic specific complement set at 762.59 euros and the seniority complements, which are 50.07 euros per three-year period.