Teachers' salaries are not lower than those of civil servants. As a mandatory requirement made by the Ministry of Education in 2020, it seems that it has indeed been realized in some parts of the country. However, after 2020, we will still find teachers in many areas voicing online: It has been 202 1 year, and the salary income of teachers in our area is still not as high as that of civil servants! Indeed, as far as the national situation is concerned, the salary of teachers does not seem to be lower than that of civil servants. Then, why is it difficult for all localities to implement the principle that teachers' salaries are not lower than those of civil servants? As a front-line teacher, the author thinks that the requirements and appeals at the national level are really good, but from the overall situation, it is difficult to fully realize them nationwide. The main reasons for this difficulty are as follows.

Teachers are paid the same as civil servants. What level?

The state emphasizes that "teachers' salaries are not lower than the average level of local civil servants". In fact, from the perspective of implementation, this is a more general rhetoric. We should know that there are many salary levels of civil servants, and the composition of related income is also different. Looking at the most specific civil servant bonus, there may be a big gap between civil servants with the same working years in different administrative departments in the same place. Moreover, teachers' salaries are also determined at different levels. The two basically implement completely different wage standards and wage structures. The simple sentence "teachers' salary is not lower than the average level of local civil servants" seems to have no substantive standard at all, and of course it cannot be really implemented.

Whether the salary of teachers is higher than that of civil servants depends on the local development level.

As we all know, in many coastal developed cities with high economic development level, the wage income level of local teachers is not only lower than that of civil servants, but even far exceeds that of civil servants. Not suffering from poverty but suffering from inequality, the salary of teachers and the salary of teachers and civil servants are not policy issues, but more determined by the level of regional economic development. In this case of unbalanced economic development and unbalanced resource allocation, how can teachers' wage income not be lower than a national standard for civil servants?

With a large base of teachers, it is not easy to raise salaries.

According to relevant disclosure, the number of civil servants in China is around several million, while the number of teachers is as high as tens of millions. We must know that such a base difference directly leads to the financial pressure brought about by rising wages. Simply raising the wage level of a small number of people, the finance may try to solve it, but the number is as high as tens of millions, which is really not a small number. Moreover, for those areas with backward economic development and limited financial level, the salary increase of teachers is often unbearable for local finance.