How to calculate teachers' overtime salary from September 2025

    Nam Dương |

    A reader with email thuvanxxx@gmail.com asked: According to the new regulations, how is the salary for teachers who teach extra hours calculated?

    The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

    Article 5 of Circular 21/2025/TT-BGDDT of the Ministry of Education and Training (effective from September 23, 2025) stipulates overtime wages as follows:

    1. The salary for 01 teaching period of a teacher is determined as follows:

    2. Salary for 01 extra teaching period = Salary for 01 teaching period x 150%.

    3. Salary for extra teaching hours/school year = Number of extra teaching hours/school year x Salary for 01 extra teaching session.

    4. The overtime salary for teachers prescribed in Clause 2, Article 2 of this Circular shall comply with the provisions on overtime salary of the law on labor.

    Thus, from September 23, 2025, teachers' overtime teaching salaries are calculated as above.

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    Nam Dương
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