Education and Teaching salaries in Colombia
The median senior Education and Teaching salary in Colombia is COP 67,592,376 per year, with the market band from COP 54,081,648 to COP 81,103,104 (eltiempo.com, 2026-09-03).
By seniority
senior (High quality data)
- P25
- COP 54,081,648
- Median
- COP 67,592,376
- P75
- COP 81,103,104
- per month
- COP 5,632,698
About COP 5,632,698 per month at the median.
p50 is the midpoint of the source's published span; the span endpoints are stored as p25 and p75 and are wider than quartiles. SPAN shape: band built from two published official scale points, not percentiles. Official 2025 teacher salary table (Estatuto 2277, updated by the June 2025 decretos 0596 to 0617) reproduced by El Tiempo: grado 11 base salary 4,506,804 and grado 14 base salary 6,758,592 per month; band covers late-career escalafon grades 11 to 14, the senior-teacher zone. Basis authority: article states the escalafon grades determinan el salario mensual; figures are statutory gross base amounts and exclude the 1.6 percent bonificacion (grado 14 adds 101,064). Same-cell alternative on the page: Estatuto 1278 grado 2 nivel 2D con especializacion 7,164,089 monthly. Public-sector statutory scale, hence High quality. Rector and directive-cargo tables were embedded as images and could not be read, so lead and executive cells are empty.
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