Teachers from pre-university education who want to teach overtime in payment regime with the time (PCO) can submit their files to school on August 28 and 29, 2025, during which time will take place, according to the mobility methodology for the school year 2025-2026.
Teachers can submit files for payment by time on 28 and 29 August photo archive
For the first time, starting with September 1, 2025, Law 141/2025, which fundamentally amends the calculation of the tariff for PCO.
22 lei per hour for a debutant teacher
The law introduces a new paragraph in Article 183 of Law 198/2023, as follows:
“(51) Starting on September 1, 2025, in the state pre -university education system, when establishing the payment tariff, the basic salary related to the classified teacher is used, taking into account the seniority in work, the seniority in education and the appropriate teaching degree, to which the following may be added, to which the following will be added. Simultaneous, the allowance for special education or increase for teaching activity in the penitentiary system, allowance for isolated areas, disability increase and increase for neuropsychic overload, compared to the average monthly number of working hours, established annually by the Government Decision initiated by the Ministry of Labor, Family, Youth and Social Social.
This formula leads to a decrease of approximately 50% of the gross/hour tariff for overtime. Specifically, a beginner teacher with teaching master and pedagogical training becomes paid with 22 lei gross/hour, the equivalent of remuneration of an unskilled daily.
The calendar of the distribution of PCO hours
According to the official procedure, the calendar is as follows:
28-29 August 2025: submission of files and supporting interviews at the educational units;
September 1, 2025: attributing the vacancies/reserved for the titular teachers, to the employees during the viability of the job, the associates or pensioners;
September 1-2 2025: transmission of lists with occupied/unoccupied hours to inspectorates;
September 2-4, 2025: issuing and communicating distribution decisions.
The Timiș School Inspectorate said that the medical opinion requested in the file must be issued by the occupational medicine after June 1, 2025.
Application model for hourly payment, in school year 2025-2026:
Restrictions and exceptions
The law limits who can carry out activities under payment by time. Article 5 of the official procedure stipulates:
“(1) (…) In the school year 2025-2026, the management personnel from the school inspectorates, the houses of the teaching staff, the educational units, the extracurricular education units, as well as the guidance and control personnel from the school inspectorates cannot carry out teaching activities by payment with the hour or the hour.”
“(2) By exception, in the absence of qualified teaching staff, the Board of Directors of the School Inspectorate may approve that the management personnel will teach in PCO, only in disciplines for which it has the necessary qualification, in primary or gymnasiums in isolated rural areas.”
Reactions and consequences
Unions and teachers warn that this reduction will create a blockage in the system, as many teachers will not accept overtime.
“In the fall, they will not be paid with teachers. Tens of thousands of children will remain, hundreds of thousands of children, without teachers”said Simion Hăncescu, president of the Federation of Free Trade Unions, quoted by edupedu.ro
Reducing the tariff at half for the time payment will come with a high cost on
“The quality of the teaching-learning-evaluation act”said Cornelia Popa Stavri on Tuesday, president at the independent union in pre -university education Sector 4, at DC Edu.
Adrian Balog, a teacher at the “Nikolaus Lenau” Theoretical High School in Timișoara, spoke about the effects that he could have to reduce the fare by half for the hour.
“There will be situations in which some colleagues – this is valid throughout the country – not to accept those hours for the time, due to the fact that they will not have enough money to make the shuttle and to run those hours ”he said at the debate on Tuesday, August 5, organized by the Ministry of Education and Research.
The economic context
According to GD 1506/2024, the average monthly number of working hours is 165.33, and the minimum gross wage per economy is 4,050 lei.
This means a minimum remuneration of 24.49 gross/hour lei, while some categories of teachers will be paid under this threshold.
Minister of Education, Daniel David, justified the measure stating that “eit is a correct calculation and so it allows its country at this time. ”
However, the unions claim that the ministry has not published any impact analysis to base the decision. Thus, from September 1, 2025, schools risk remaining with thousands of hours not covered, and students will enter courses without teachers for the disciplines where PCO was the only staff insurance solution.
The procedure for the classification of teachers in the school year 2025-2026 can be consulted below:
