Teacher TLR Payment Calculator
TLR1, TLR2 & TLR3 payments on 2025/26 STPCD rates
Last updated: June 2026
Teacher TLR Payment Calculator (2025/26)
Work out a Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR) payment using the September 2025 STPCD bands and the current proportion-of-responsibility rule.
What this TLR calculator does
A Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR) payment is an annual allowance paid on top of a classroom teacher's salary for taking on a defined leadership or curriculum responsibility — running a department, leading a key stage, or delivering a fixed-term whole-school project. This calculator turns your school's headline TLR award into the amount you will actually be paid, using the September 2025 School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) bands and the current rule that TLR1 and TLR2 are based on the proportion of the responsibility you carry rather than your contracted hours. It is built for classroom teachers, middle leaders, part-time staff weighing up a responsibility post, and school business managers checking that a staffing structure pays correctly. Enter the band, the full award value and (for TLR1/TLR2) your share of the responsibility, and you will see the payable amount per year and per month. Add your base salary to estimate gross pay and take-home after income tax, National Insurance and a typical Teachers' Pension contribution. Every figure used matches the statutory ranges published on GOV.UK for 2025/26.
How it works
There are three TLR bands. The 2025/26 statutory annual ranges are:
- TLR1 — whole-school or significant cross-curricular responsibility: £10,174 to £17,216.
- TLR2 — department, subject or key-stage responsibility: £3,527 to £8,611.
- TLR3 — clearly time-limited, fixed-term project work: £702 to £3,478.
For TLR1 and TLR2 the calculator multiplies the full award by the proportion of responsibility you undertake. Under the 2025 STPCD, schools determine the value of a part-time TLR1 or TLR2 on the proportion of the full-time-equivalent responsibility the teacher carries — the old automatic pro-rata-by-hours principle is no longer mandated. So a teacher who carries the whole responsibility receives the full award even if they work part time. TLR3 is different: it is a fixed-term payment and the pro-rata principle never applies to it, so a TLR3 is paid in full regardless of working pattern.
Worked example
Aisha is a part-time maths teacher (0.6 FTE) who leads the whole maths department. Her school sets the TLR2 for that post at £6,000 per year. Because she carries the full departmental responsibility, her proportion of responsibility is 100% — not 60%. Under the 2025 rule the TLR2 is therefore paid in full: £6,000 per year, or £500 per month before tax. If instead she shared the role 50/50 with a co-leader, her proportion would be 50% and the payable TLR2 would be £3,000 per year (£250 per month). Add her base salary of £30,000 and her gross becomes £36,000, on which the calculator estimates income tax, National Insurance and Teachers' Pension to show take-home.
Frequently asked questions
Is a part-time teacher's TLR reduced for working part time?
Not automatically. Since the 2025 STPCD, the value of a TLR1 or TLR2 is based on the proportion of the responsibility a teacher actually undertakes, not on their contracted hours. A part-time teacher who carries the full responsibility receives the full TLR. Schools are no longer mandated to apply the hours-based pro-rata principle to TLR1 or TLR2.
Can a TLR3 be pro-rated?
No. The pro-rata principle does not apply to any TLR3 award. A TLR3 is a fixed-term payment for time-limited project work and is paid in full for the duration of the fixed term, whatever the teacher's working pattern.
Can I hold more than one TLR at once?
A teacher cannot hold a TLR1 and a TLR2 at the same time. However, a teacher receiving either a TLR1 or a TLR2 may also hold a concurrent TLR3 for separate, time-limited responsibilities.
Is a TLR pensionable and taxable?
Yes. A TLR payment counts as pensionable pay for the Teachers' Pension Scheme and is treated as part of your salary for income tax and National Insurance. The take-home estimate here applies 2025/26 income tax bands, Class 1 NI and a representative Teachers' Pension contribution rate.
Source: figures from the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2025 (GOV.UK), paragraphs 20.2–20.8.
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