How to understand "the salary of teachers is not lower than that of civil servants"? In many places, on the surface, teachers' salaries are indeed not lower than or even higher than local civil servants. But the actual income is much lower than that of civil servants. The main difference is that civil servants have incentive subsidies at the end of the year, while teachers don't, or very little. The existence and amount of incentive subsidies directly determine the income gap between teachers and civil servants. Teachers' dissatisfaction with wages and salaries is more based on the year-end incentive subsidies for civil servants. Therefore, if the Ministry of Education supervises "teachers' salaries are not lower than those of civil servants" instead of "teachers' incomes are not lower than those of civil servants", it can not really improve the treatment of teachers. There should be a clear statement whether "teachers' salary" only refers to monthly salary or includes year-end incentive subsidies.