The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has credited February salaries and allowances into teachers banks and Sacco accounts on Thursday afternoon.
The payroll activities kicked off on Tuesday after TSC closed the February payroll commonly known as ‘TPay’.
A number of teachers have confirmed receiving their February salaries including teachers whose pay points are at KCB bank.
According to a circular by Head of Public Service, Mr Felix Koskei, dated 24th June 2025, all Ministries, Departments, Agencies, and County Governments are required to process their monthly payrolls by the 15th of every month.
In the Feb payroll TSC has paid some bill including arrears for some teachers.
Among the bills paid include effecting automatic promotion for teachers employed three years ago inline with Career Progression Guidelines (CPG), hardship allowance for teachers transferred to hardship zones, and arrears for promoted and reinstated teachers.
The Commission has also paid a total of 24,000 junior school intern teachers who were recruited and posted to schools in January.
The teachers have received their February salaries together with January arrears for the days worked.
However a total of 9,159 teachers recently recruited as replacements will have to wait longer before they can start getting paid.
The teachers who are now serving a six month probation period before they can be converted to pnp, reported to schools early February.
“Note that the effective date of your appointment will be the date you report for duty. Your salary will be Ksh 300,336 p.a on the T-Scale 5 (Ksh 300,336 p.a to Ksh 379,380 p.a). You will also be entitled to Automatic House Allowance, Commuter Allowance and Hardship Allowance (where applicable),” reads an employment letter of a P1 teachers sent in a school in Kilifi.
The teachers, employed on permanent and pensionable terms, will receive their first pay in March according to a source working at the payroll department at the Commission headquarters.
The salary payment comes at a time when schools are set to break for half term early next week.
According to Ministry circular outlining this year school calendar of activities, all schools will break for ‘half term’ on Tuesday 24th February and resume on Monday 2nd March 2026.
However secondary schools are likely to start their mid term break early at the end of this week.