LC Written Examiners, 2022

Depends on the type of student teacher. Bottom line is that you need to have a degree, so some subjects will take pme 1s, but not people who are heading into 4th year of a teaching degree.

I didn’t see rates published last year and did LC myself, but there’s usually a fair difference between the two. On the other hand, you get through the JCs a lot quicker.

I’d send in a new application with the subject you want on it. I’d add to the form somewhere the other info (that you have marked X but would prefer to mark Y this year).

I corrected for years (about 16 actually) and unless you have an absolute power tripper of an advising team you will be fine.

Maybe it has changed but that was only part of it for me....the pay rate never mind the tax and the amount of time given up to do it were drawbacks too

I hated it tbh.....3/4/5 weeks of solid get up at 6/7 and work 4 hrs half hour off and then another 4 and a half hours.......it was tedious boring repetitive attention to detail work that came with a lot of responsibility (now I reckon I probably was a bit slower than some etc) ..... anyway you could get similar money working for a couple more weeks in the local spar with much less hassle/responsibility and not have to spend 8 hours a day hunched over exam scripts ...and enjoy your evenings without more of the same hanging over you the next day

Could be different now that it's moving online etc

The €700/€900 is for everyone, whether online or not. You also still get the admin fee if you are online, with very little admin work compared to what used to be done

The €3/€6 bonus per script is on top of the script fee. It was introduced last year/ the year before (I can’t remember) as a bonus €150 per 25 scripts.

For me, the tedium of opening bags, numbering scripts, picking a sample etc was the worst part of the job. Now that it’s online, you just click a button and get your sample.

in my subject I can download 20 at a time, which is a days work. I haven’t found I’ve been working into evenings as much as I used to on paper. Also, each bundle is 20, regardless. In the old way, you could have a bundle of 15 or 30 depending on the centre size. I always felt I needed to do a full bag each day, which led to longer days.

Even at the 20 a day I beat the deadlines and can have a life at weekends.

It really depends on expenses. If you and your school are 100 km from athlone that’s an extra €167 for the overnight, tax free. Mileage makes a fair difference too.

I would expect at least €1800 for the 26 days work.

obviously it depends on kids ages, but I would have found a summer camp for 4 hours would leave mine wrecked afterwards, so I’d get a couple of hours done while they’d sit in front of the tv, so I’d get 6 hours during the day, and 2 hours done either early in the morning or late at night to fill out my day.

I haven’t marked JC since before the additional payments were added in. The €1800 is the minimum I would expect to be paid into my hand for JC.

Would they still be looking for people I wonder?

Each subject gets a different rate, depending on how long they expect them to take. You get the €6 for every script. This is the first year of marking conference day 1 in person and day 2 online, so I don’t know what the fees are like, but we used to get a 2 day conference fee, so maybe they’ve split that up a bit.

Sorry to piggy back on this and I don't wish to derail, but does anyone have any experience of the advising examiner position? I've been asked to do it and details of what the job entails/workload and pay haven't been sent yet. I saw a post on Teachers Voice Only asking for similar info so there must be a couple of new Advising Examiners coming on board this year.

I earned about €1400 last year correcting jc. I was sick so had to send back half my scripts. Even with the estimate of the remaining scripts it'd bring me to €2800 nowhere near the €4800 they estimate that jc correctors typically make. If you include this years extra 700 it's still only 3500 a good 1300 off their estimate.

My figures were pretty much the gross amount as I wasn't working most of last year so didn't have to pay tax. I corrected about 170 papers to get €1400

That is a fair wedge of extra readies on top of the regular wage. I hear young teachers giving out about it that it isn't worth doing, then giving out that they can't save for a deposit. The two don't align in my simple mind.

You do generally have to do at least a year of junior cert before they will give you leaving cert, so the wages may not be that high the first year.

Conferences are in person this year, so that and the €700 will add a bit to the take home pay.

My JC subject was €8 per paper before the €3 was added, so 170 of them would have given more than €1400. Obviously you couldn’t help what happened last year, but the next 170 wouldn’t have taken as long to mark either, so it wouldn’t be double the time it took last year to do 340. The faffing about at the start with learning the marking scheme and doing the sample does slow things down a bit.

Are you marking online? It’s probably so that they can get you set up with the marking website and get the sample script marked so they can give you clearance to get going with it. They mightn’t have the capabilities to have everyone online in the marking conference venues.