Sorry forgot to add, if teachers go on strike they lose a days pay. This is worked out as 1/195 of their salary plus on costs as teachers contracts are for only 195 days per year, we do not actually get paid for our holidays. We choose to take our pay averaged out over 12 months so we have money all year round but you could opt to have it paid on a month by month basis. The other thing about teachers contracts is that, until a very short while ago, on top of the 1265 contracted hours over 195 days we had something called 'professional time' which we had to do but were not paid for. This was however much time it took you to do your job!