LC Written Examiners, 2022

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.

They should have been on the payslip for October. The advance payslip has no details on it.

I did the JC for a couple of years before LC. It's a much better way of starting, the LC is tough by comparison. Not sure my exact gross last year, maybe around 8 grand for LC HL but in a subject not struggling as badly as others and the surprise of being finished a few days before Sprioc La.

I find the "I can't save for a house" bit funny too. I did July provision, superintending, exam secretary and correcting over a few years, sometimes 3 at a time. We've a few very sensible young staff who are saving and doing all the extra. A lot have or will buy houses soon. It is phenomenally difficult alone though, the small cheap one/two beds don't exist anymore.

Most of the younger teachers about here have summer income. At least the ones talking about buying a home have anyway. We can all pick exceptions to rules if we want.

How many year's examination marking experience leads to advising examiner?

Thanks!