VICTORIAN teachers won't see the coalition government fulfil its promise to make them the nation's best paid, but they'll be second behind Western Australia.
The state's bitter industrial dispute has seen teachers walk off the job and refuse to write comments on students' report cards.
Even after reaching an agreement some 18 months in the making, the union and the state government were still releasing conflicting figures about what pay increases had been won.
Australian Education Union Victorian branch president Meredith Peace said teachers were in line for pay boosts of between 16.1 to 20.5 per cent over three years, plus a $1000 sign-on bonus.
Premier Denis Napthine said the salary increases would total three per cent in 2013, 2.75 per cent in 2014 and 2.75 per cent in 2015.
He said the agreement was consistent with the government's public-sector wages policy, which provides for 2.5 per cent annual rises plus extra for productivity gains.
Before winning power in November 2010, the coalition promised to make Victoria's teachers the best paid in Australia.
Ms Peace said Victorian teachers would be better paid than their NSW counterparts before the agreement ended in 2016.
"They won't be the best paid - they'll be the second-best paid when we get in front of NSW," she said.
"Western Australia is a long way in front of all the other states and territories."
She said the government had promised to monitor how schools employed staff in a bid to stem the number of employees on contracts, which is almost one in five teachers and almost half of all support staff.
She said the deal would deliver class sizes ranging from 21 students on average at prep to grade two level, through to 26 from grades two to six.
Ms Peace said the union had long wanted to resolve the dispute, but parents had been supportive of a fight that would benefit students.
"We have never wanted this dispute to go for as long as it has," she said.
Dr Napthine said the deal was a "win, win, win" result.
"This is an agreement that is consistent with the agreements we have signed with nurses, police, with the public sector," Dr Napthine said.
"We are very, very pleased that we have been able to reach a mutually satisfactory outcome that delivers a fair and reasonable pay outcome for our hardworking teachers at a reasonable price for Victorian taxpayers."
He said the government's pay figures applied to teachers remaining in the same position over three years, while the union outlined higher increases reflecting expected progression through the ranks.
Federal Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten used the deal to call on the Napthine government to sign up to the commonwealth's school funding reform scheme, saying the resolution came only after months of unnecessary anguish for parents and teachers.
"The Baillieu/Napthine government has shown exactly why the Liberals can't be trusted on workplace relations," Mr Shorten said.
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