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The education minister wants to raise pay rates for skilled tradespeople who work as unqualified teachers.
Education Minister Erica Stanford wants higher pay rates for tradies who work as unqualified teachers - but she has to persuade the teacher unions first.
She said tradespeople who did not have teaching qualifications were employed under a Limited Authority to Teach (LAT) and did not have access to the top rates on the teacher salary scale.
The top rate for a LAT with a degree on the Untrained Teacher Pay Scale was $91,086 while the top rate for a qualified teacher with a degree on the Qualified Teacher Pay Scale was $105,686.
