OVER 75 per cent of the €8.59 billion education budget is absorbed by pay and pensions. This means that all other education services must be funded from the €2.14 billion non-pay element of the budget.

In all, more than 60 staff in the education sector earn more than €150,000, according to The Irish Times survey. A further 476 staff earn more than €110,000. In all, 497 people are on the professorial salary scale, €113,573–€145,952.

The education sector has 95,554 full-time staff – about 27 per cent of total public sector employment. Of these, 59,000 are teachers, 10,400 are special-needs assistants and 20,000 work in third-level colleges. The cost of teacher salaries is €2.1 billion at primary and €1.9 billion at second level. The cost of pay in the university/IT sector is €1.3 billion.

A further €62 million is spent on pensions to 22,700 education staff in primary, second-level and in ITs.



1 PROF DES FITZGERALD

Vice-president for research, UCD

€263,602

2 PROF FRANK GANNON

Director general, Science Foundation Ireland

€259,697

3 DR MICHAEL MURPHY

President, UCC

€232,151

4 PROFESSOR TOM BEGLEY

Dean, School of Business, UCD

€231,575

5 PROFESSOR NICK QUIRKE

Principal, College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UCD €227,659

6 BRIGID McMANUS

Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills

€215,590

7 DR JAMES BROWNE (Joint 7th)

President, NUIG

€212,755

7 DR HUGH BRADY (Joint 7th)

President, UCD

€212,755

9 MARY COUGHLAN

Minister for Education

€208,526

10 EAMON DREA

Vice-president for staff, UCD

€202,913
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...282950573.html

The top 100 best paid in education. mary coughlan is 9th.

3/4's of the education budget goes on pay and pensions.......disgraceful.