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RANKINGS

Best UK residential teaching jobs
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Our research shows these residential schools have the best pay

and the clearest timetables.

Hours Teaching Lesson Total Scheduled Other work Duties not
Name Days Salary covered hours prep + hours off-duty time cited cited and/or
by NMW admin quoted timed
St Edmund's 6 £730.45 70 22 11 47 All evenings None None
College 
Airport runs
Whitgift  6 £710 68.25 23 45.5 After 16:30 Induction
Pastoral care
Airport runs
Bede's 6 £700 67.3 Up to 25 Up to 15 55.3 After 17:30 Induction
Pastoral care
Marking Meetings
SBC 6 £625 60.75 30 3.75 48.75 Unclear Supervision Pastoral care
Excursions Induction
British 4-5.5 hours. Airport runs
Summer 6 £615 60 25 Up to 15 48+ No night Excursions Class breaks
Courses  duties Camp setup
Airport runs
After 17:45
Exsportise £615 60 25 Up to 15 48+ Excursions Class breaks
Mon-Fri
Camp setup
Airport runs
Wimbledon
SoE YL £600 59 25 Up to 15 48+ All evenings Excursions CPD Class breaks
Camp setup
Based on the lowest rate of pay for an EFL teacher at these schools. Data compiled from job ads plus job descriptions on
operators’ websites. All information correct as of 1 February 2023. Check our website for up-to-date listings and specifications.

Working time, overtime and time on-duty
W orking time, overtime and time on-duty

How we checked our top schools and how you should check the job ads.

ummer schools desperately need is the amount an employer can offset for or duty, plus all actual travelling time and
teachers but the pay rates on offer accommodation when calculating NMW. all mandatory training including CPD and
vary hugely. Language school pay This figure can be deducted from your salary Induction. Many schools wrongly exclude:
Sfor residential teachers varies from or require extra unpaid overtime, but not a) meetings, time supervising children
£300 a week, including holiday pay, to £625 both. Next to salaries, we also give the total (including on breaks or at meals) and any
excluding it (£700.45 a week, inclusive). time available before NMW law is breached. pastoral/residential duties;
Boarding school-run operations range from b) classroom time including teaching,
£818 with holiday pay, down to just £376.68. Rule 2: UK employers admin, setting up, or tidying;
All our figures are based on the lowest c) mandatory training, CPD and induction;
pay rate on offer and exclude holiday pay can require unpaid d) lesson preparation and marking which
which cannot be used for National Minimum overtime but if your wages take place at the workplace when
Wage (NMW) calculations. Our calculations workers are on-duty.
are based on the NMW of £11.44 per hour drop below NMW for the
applicable to everyone aged over 20 as of total time worked they will Our chart includes working time not
1 April this year. mentioned or not accounted for in job
be in breach of the law. descriptions. Airport runs and excursions are
Rule 1: Always check specified because the actual time taken may
Schools may claim no overtime is payable
whether the figure on the since summer school staff are salaried. For vary. As a rule of thumb, all time on-duty is
working time. So we checked for off-duty time
ad excludes or includes NMW purposes only workers with both and listed it. One school, Discovery Summer,
holiday pay. If no pay figure annual contracts and salaries paid in equal met both this requirement and our pay
benchmark but we found insufficient public
instalments over a 12-year period qualify as
is given, don’t apply. ‘salaried hour workers’. domain data to include it.
So, what is working time? Working time Lastly, any school marked with a  has
For the salaries provided above, residential covers all actual time spent on or at the provided the clearest upfront information
teachers can add an extra £69.93 which workplace and doing any work-related task about their pay and duties!
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