Teachers in Kazakhstan Continue to Lose Income to Inflation

In 2025, the decline accelerated to 4.1%, and in schools and colleges to 6.1%, Orda.kz reports.

Everything looks good on paper. According to the Bureau of National Statistics, the average teacher’s salary increased by 6.8% and amounted to 322.7 thousand tenge. But inflation ate up all the growth — and more.

The decline has continued since 2023 and is accelerating every year. At the same time, the situation in education is worse than in the economy as a whole. The average salary across all industries also showed a real decrease for the first time in eight years, but only by 1.4%. the publication says.

Before the current decline, teachers’ salaries had grown at a double-digit rate for three years in a row — from 2019 to 2021, by an average of 17.8% per year. Such growth was seen only in education; in other sectors, salaries grew about half as fast.

Education is the largest sector by number of employees. Some 1.1 million out of 3.8 million people work in it. Two-thirds of them are employed in schools and colleges, and the majority are women (536.8 thousand people).

Earlier, we wrote that half of Kazakhstanis earn less than 340 thousand tenge. The median salary in the country amounted to 339,912 tenge, and teachers, with 322 thousand, were below that mark.

Original author: Ruslan Loginov

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