Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
DIVISION OF CAMARINES SUR
Freedom Sports Complex, Pili, Camarines Sur
RODRIGUEZ NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Cadlan, Pili, Camarines Sur, Philippines

DEMAND FOR SALARY INCREASE OF TEACHERS IN RODRIGUEZ

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Survey Report in English for

Academic and Professional Purposes

Ian Manuel Delos Santos

Mike Earl Rocamora

Ma. Luna Regine

Francia Cerdon

Baren Molina

Junior Barte

Mrs. Abegail Despuig

OCTOBER 2019
 INTRODUCTION

Being a teacher is one of the least paid professions in the country. Teaching is
the profession that aims to produce professionals but is considered as a low income job
compared to others.

Teaching is not an easy job. Most of the time, they do tasks that are not according
to their profession. Handling young people is hard. It is the teachers obligation to mold
these children to build their full potential and someday, be a law abiding citizen that
serves his fellowmen.

A role model is a person who inspires and encourages us to strive for greatness,
live to our fullest potential and see the best in ourselves. A role model is someone we
admire and someone we aspire to be like. We learn through them, through their
commitment to excellence and through their ability to make us realize our own personal
growth. We look to them for advice and guidance.

A role model can be anybody: a parent, a sibling, a friend but some of our most
influential and life-changing role models are teachers.

Teachers follow students through each pivotal stage of development. At six to

eight hours a day, five days a week, teachers are poised to become one of the most
influential people in your students’ life. After their parents, children will first learn from
their elementary school teacher. Then, as a high school teacher, they will guide
students through yet another important transition, adolescence. As children become
young adults, they will answer their questions, listen to their problems and teach them
about this new phase of their lives. Teachers not only watch their students grow, they
help them grow.

Teachers are founts of experience. They have already been where their students
are going, undergone what they will go through and are in a position to pass along
lessons, not only regarding subject matter, but lessons on life.

Being a teacher is a hard job. In schools, they are not just teaching staffs but also,
parents, friends, counsellor and more tasks that are beyond their profession. They do
not just make students be busy for hours, they help them to be equipped to face the
world. They are instruments to make another effective instrument.
 According to TeacherPH (2018), The Senate must have been more than willing to
implement proposed bills to provide the public teachers in the Philippines a decent
increase altogether with benefits but up to now none of the plans were actually realized.
The government officials should make an action to increase the salary that they
deserved. There are eight reasons that will state why public school teachers deserved a
salary increase. Extended working hours, after the class, they do not go to their home
directly they have to do something and bring it home to finish it such as lesson plans,
creating examinations, checking test papers and many more. So their working hours is
extended not just that they also go home late.

A public school teacher is an all-around worker/jack of all trades, some of the

teachers will do anything that they can do because they are lacking of manpower they
can do anything to the extent that they can be a gardener, cleaner, a security guard.

Being the foster parents to their students, most of the time the students spent their
time and life in the school, so that’s why the relationship between the teachers and the
students will reach to the point that they will be the great influencers and a good role
model for them.

Paying for educational stuff with personal funds, the teachers need to spend their
personal funds in order to buy and provide educational stuff for the students.

In other countries, teachers are prioritized and have a satisfying income.

In Luxembourg, the starting salary of lower secondary teachers is $79,000 in

equivalent US Dollars.

Other countries that has high paying salary are Germany and Denmark. Teachers
in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand reach their maximum salary towards
the end of their career and achieve close to their top salary after fifteen years’
experience.

In the United States, High School Teachers made an average salary of $59,170 in
2017. The states and districts that pay High School Teachers the highest average
salary are Alaska ($85,420), New York ($83,360), Connecticut ($78,810), and California
($77,390).

In the Philippines, the average income of teachers is Php 20,000. Public School
Teachers salary is on average 72% higher than private schools here in the Philippines.
The average monthly salary of Elementary and High School Teachers is PhP19,600 in
public schools and PhP 11,400 in private schools.
 Nationally coordinated protests and activities marked this year’s celebration of the
World Teachers’ Day, as hundreds of gathered to call on the government to prioritize
their welfare especially in their salary.

During President Rodrigo Duterte’s 4th State of the Nation Address last July, he
expressed his goal to see an increase in salaries for public school teachers and other
government workers. Doubling the salary of public school teachers under his
administration was one of Duterte’s campaign promises.

The Senators of the 18th Congress on July, made bills aiming to reach this goal.
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara wants public school teachers to receive at least
P36,000 monthly. Senator Francis Pangilinan also made a bill on additional
compensation of Php 10,000 per month. Senator Nancy Binay also has her own version
of the bill that aims to bring the monthly salary of teachers to P28,000 and P16,000. She
also wants to give additional "educational assistance" to public school teachers. They
said that adding teachers’ salaries by P5,000 would require an additional P75 billion
annually.

One of the effects would be is that doubling teachers’ salaries would cost an
additional PhP343.7 billion of the gross domestic product. Increasing their salary
impacts our economy.

Because of the lack of instructional materials and the technology-based

instructions at present, teachers will have to spend more money for lesson preparation
that needs internet connectivity, computer and printer. Teachers bear the expenses for
these necessities.

If we give the money for the welfare of our teachers, surely it will go to its
intended use with a ‘return of investment’ in several folds.

They should increase the pay of teachers because every peso will be worth it.

It is hard to understand how the Department of Education funds error-filled books

but cannot fund salary increase for teachers.

This study aims to evaluate the teachers’ in Rodriguez National High School
regarding with their salary. The researchers asked the teachers’ satisfaction with their
salary and their stand to current administration plan to increase it.
 RESULTS
TEACHER I
Salary of Teacher I Junior High School Salary of Teacher I Senior High School

TEACHER I JHS SALARY

1. PhP20,179.00
2. PhP21,038.00 TEACHER I SHS SALARY
3. PhP20,000.00 1 PhP24,000.00
4. PhP20,000.00 2 PhP20,000.00
5. PhP20,000.00 3 PhP20,000.00
6. PhP19,039.00 AVERAGE PhP21,333.33
7. PhP20,754.00
8. PhP19,000.00
9. PhP24,000.00
10. PhP20,000.00
11. PhP20,000.00
12. PhP20,000.00
13. PhP20,000.00
AVERAGE PhP20,308.46
Number of
TEACHER I JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PhP20,308.46 Teachers that
TEACHER I SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PhP21,333.33 is supporting
AVERAGE SALARY OF TEACHER I PhP20,820.90 someone
financially: 7

IF SALARY IS ENOUGH SATISFIED? (TEACHER I)

(TEACHER I)
YES
Yes 6%
13%

No
88% NO
94%
TEACHER II
Salary of Teacher II Junior High School Salary of Teacher II Senior HS

TEACHER II JHS SALARY

SALARY
1 PhP22,945.00
2 PhP25,000.00
AVERAGE PhP 23,972.00
TEACHER II
SHS
1 PhP24,938.00
2 PhP22,000.00
3 PhP19,000.00
4 PhP24,935.00
AVERAGE PhP 22,718.25

TEACHER II JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PhP 23,972.00

TEACHER II SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PhP 22,718.25
AVERAGE SALARY OF TEACHER II PhP 23,345.00
Number of Teachers that is supporting someone financially: 3
 IS SALARY ENOUGH? SATISFIED? Teacher II

YES
17%
YES
33%

NO
67%
NO
83%

TEACHER III
Salary of Teacher III Senior HS Salary of Teacher III Junior HS

TEACHER III SHS SALARY

SALARY
1 PhP27,000.00
AVERAGE PhP27,000.00
TEACHER III
JHS
1 PhP25,545.00
2 PhP27,545.00
AVERAGE PhP26,545.00

Average Teacher III Senior High School PhP27,000.00

Salary
Average Teacher III Junior High School PhP26,545.00
Salary
AVERAGE TEACHER III SALARY PhP26,772.50
Number of Teachers that is supporting someone financially: 3

Is It Enough? Teacher III SATISFIED? Teacher III

NO NO
100% 100%

TOTAL RESULTS
30,000.00

25,000.00

20,000.00

15,000.00 Junior HS
Senior HS

10,000.00

5,000.00

0.00
TEACHER I TEACHER II TEACHER III
 Is Salary Enough? (OVERALL) SATISFIED? (OVERALL)

YES
12% YES
20%

NO
NO 80%
88%

22 OUT OF 25 Teachers in Rodriguez National High School said that their monthly
salary is not enough to support their own and family’s needs.

20 out of 25 Teachers in Rodriguez National High School said that they are not
satisfied with their salary.

SUMMARY

With one of the country’s current issue on teachers’ salary promised increase, the
researchers conducted a survey about the teachers in Rodriguez National High School
on their stand on it. We asked random 25 teaching staffs inside the said public high
school and gave them 10 questions about their teaching position, subjects and students
they handle, salary per month and their satisfaction with the income they receive.

Upon data gathering and analysis, 3 main groups were formed according to their
teaching position with 2 subgroups each identified if they teach in the Junior or Senior
High School Department.

Their salaries were grouped and calculated for the average each groups and
subgroups. First, we computed for the average salary of Teacher I Junior and Senior
High School then get its average. After computation of the salaries, we separated the
number of teachers who say they were satisfied with salary together with those who do
not. The same pattern of data analysis were accomplished to all the remaining groups.
 The average salary received of Teachers I in Rodriguez National High School is
PhP20,890.90 monthly. Two (12%) said that it is enough for their needs while 14 (88%)
of teachers said that it is not. One (6%) said that he/she is satisfied while 15 (94%) of
them said that they are not. Majority with an approximate percentage of 91% of the
Teacher I are not satisfied with the salary they get monthly.

PhP23,345.00 is the average monthly income of Teachers II. One (17%) teacher
said that it is enough while 5 (83%) of them said it is not. Two (33%) of the teachers
said that they are satisfied while 4 (67%) of them said they are not. Majority of the
Teachers II were not satisfied with a number of 75%.

All of the 3 Teachers III said that their PhP26,772.50 salary is not enough and not
satisfying for their needs. 100% of them are not satisfied with their monthly income.

In total, 22 out of 25 Teachers in Rodriguez National High School said that their
monthly salary is not enough to support their own and family’s needs with 88%.

Also, 20 out of 25 Teachers in Rodriguez National High School said that they are
not satisfied with their salary with a number of 80%.

Overall, 84% of the Junior and Senior High School teachers in Rodriguez National
High School find that their salary is not enough to support their/families’ needs and also
not satisfying for them.

Majority of the Public High School Teachers in Rodriguez National High School
demands for a Salary Increase.

CONCLUSION