Part Three - Remuneration

3.0 A principal’s remuneration shall include the U Grade rate, the staffing funding component, the decile payment (where applicable), the payment for Leadership and Realising Youth Potential, the High Priority Principals’ Allowance (where applicable) and the Individual Payment for Experience in Role (where applicable).

3.1    Principals’ Salaries

3.1.1 The following U grade rates shall apply from the dates specified:

3.1.2 The staffing funding component (subject to the note below) is generated by the relevant formula below:

The staffing funding component is based on total teacher staffing that includes entitlement, attached and resource staffing, in addition to entitlement staffing transfer, teacher specific time allowances and staffing for attached units under Boards of Trustees as determined in the Ministry staffing notice.  It does not include teachers who may be employed above entitlement from a Board’s operations funding.

Note: Any principal who continues to be eligible for the grandparenting of the previous supplementary grant formula as per the conditions of the promulgated Secondary Principals IEC 1998, shall have this formula used to calculate the salary entitlement under 3.1.3.  This shall be subject to any conditions relating to that grandparenting that were applied at that time.

3.1.3 Principals in decile 1-4 schools shall also receive a payment in addition to 3.1.1 and 3.1.2, according to the following tables:

Decile 1 or 2 schools

Decile 3 or 4 schools

3.1.4 Individual Payment for Experience in Role

(a) Subject to subclause (b) and (c), below, and effective from 28 January 2008, principals who have met the specified criteria of three (3) years of current continuous service as a principal in a state or state integrated secondary or area school and who have been recently successfully appraised by the Board pursuant to Part 4 of this agreement, shall be entitled to receive additional remuneration of $3000 per annum, paid fortnightly.  This is paid in recognition of strong professional leadership demonstrated through experience in the role and sound performance as appraised by the Board in the performance review.

(b) A principal who is undergoing corrective action pursuant to Part 6 of this agreement shall not receive the payment from the commencement of the procedure until such time as the corrective action has ended at which time the payment recommences.

(c)  For the purposes of this clause, the three years of current continuous service does not include any period spent as an acting principal or periods spent as supernumerary in a teaching role.  Leave without pay, including secondments, does not break service and nor does it count as service for this payment.  A period of relief principalship will not count as service except where it is continuous with other relevant service as a principal.

3.1.5 Leadership in Realising Youth Potential

(a) From 28 January 2008, for each principal of a secondary school which has students enrolled in years 11-15 (as defined in (b)) shall be entitled to:

(i) a per annum payment, paid fortnightly, of $2000

(ii) a per student payment of $3.00 per annum, paid fortnightly, for each Year 11-15 student.

These payments are in recognition of the work that principals will do to develop and implement actions to increase the retention, engagement, and achievement of students in secondary schooling, help young people build on their qualifications when they leave school, and to progress along clear pathways into sustainable employment

(b) No student may create more than one $3.00 payment in any one year.  Foreign fee paying students and adult returning students are excluded from the per student payment in 3.1.5(a)(ii).

Note: The roll for determining this payment shall be set annually and be the greater of the GMFS roll or the March 1 confirmed roll of the following year.

3.2    Definition of roll

3.2.1 For the purposes of determining a principal’s U grade as per 3.1.1 and 3.1.3 “roll” shall mean the greater of the GMFS roll or the 1 March roll of the following year, as determined by the relevant Staffing Order in Council, except that students who are included in the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (at 1 July for the September school roll purposes) shall be counted on the following basis:

• students classified as “very high” under the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme shall be counted as six instead of one;
• students classified as “high” under the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme shall be counted as three instead of one.

3.3    Expenses

3.3.1 The principal shall be entitled to reimbursement of the actual and reasonable expenses incurred by the principal in the proper performance of the principal's duties in accordance with the reimbursement provisions applying to teachers in the school and as specified in the applicable secondary teachers’ collective agreement or as may be approved by the board. Reimbursement shall be made out of the school's operational funds.

3.3.2 Removal expenses shall be available to the principal and funded by the Ministry as provided for in Part 10 of this agreement.

3.4    Changes to U Grade and Decile Funding

3.4.1 Where the salary rate of the principal as specified in clause 3.1.1 changes as a result of a drop in the U grade of the position (determined by the greater of the GMFS roll or the confirmed 1 March roll of the following year) and the principal’s salary exceeds the rate for the new U grade, the following shall apply:

(a) the amount of the principal’s U grade payment above the rate for the new U grade will be protected for a period of 24 months inclusive of the school year that the new U grade is confirmed in the 1 March roll; 

(b) after the 24 month period of U grade protection, the principal shall be paid no more than the appropriate U grade for the position;

(c) U grade protection under this clause shall lapse if the principal accepts an alternative position or is appointed to a new position in another school.

3.4.2 Where the U grade of the principal’s position increases, (as determined by the greater of the GMFS or the confirmed 1 March roll of the following year), the principal will move to the new U grade rate from the beginning of the new school year in which the 1 March roll is determined.

3.4.3 For clarity, salary protection includes the U grade (3.1.1) and any applicable decile rating (3.1.3).  It does not include the salary generated by the staffing funding component formula in 3.1.2, the individual payment for experience in the role (3.1.4) and the payment for leadership in realising youth potential (3.1.5).

3.4.4 In the event of a change in the school’s decile rating the change in the decile rate will be effective from the beginning of the following year; except that where the change to the decile would reduce the decile rating of the principal, the existing rate will be protected for a period of 24 months from the first day the change takes effect.

3.5    General

3.5.1 The remuneration received by the principal pursuant to this agreement shall be deemed to compensate fully the principal for all time worked and duties performed under this agreement.

3.5.2 Nothing in this agreement shall affect the principal’s entitlement to continue making contributions to the Government Superannuation Fund and to receive all benefits that the principal may be entitled to under the Government Superannuation Fund Act.
3.5.3 Nothing in this agreement shall affect the principal’s entitlement to continue making contributions to the SSRSS and TRSS and other government approved retirement savings schemes and to receive all the benefits that the principals may be entitled to under these schemes.

3.5.4 It is noted that the rules for the retirement schemes differ with regard to the components of remuneration which form part of the contributions to the schemes.

3.6    High Priority Principals' Allowance

The High Priority Principals Allowance (HPPA) provisions below shall apply to principals employed in those secondary schools identified by the Ministry of Education as requiring additional support for recruitment and retention.  The schools identified by the Ministry are those set out in separate advice and may be changed by the Ministry as needs change, no more than annually, after consultation with the PPTA.

(a) Full-time fully registered teachers employed as principal on a permanent or long-term relieving basis of two consecutive terms or more shall be entitled to receive the allowance of $3000 per annum.

(b) Principals moving to a school which has been designated as a HPPA status are entitled to either the transfer and removal provisions of this agreement or the National Relocation Grant.  On completion of a minimum of three years' continuous service in one or more HPPA schools a principal shall have access to the transfer and removal provisions of this Agreement when moving from this category of school to another principal position in a state or integrated school.

(c) In the event that a school is removed from the HPPA coverage, a principal in receipt of the HPPA immediately prior to that change, shall continue to receive the allowance until the end of the school year.  Principals so affected shall retain their entitlement to the transfer and removal provisions of this Agreement for a further three years.