Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study investigated the relationship between teachers’ salary and public secondary school effectiveness in Northcentral, Nigeria. Salary occupies crucial position in the management of employees in any organisation. Salary provided for teachers in public secondary schools in North-central Nigeria seems ineffective. This might negatively lead to their ineffectiveness in secondary schools. The objectives of this study were to: exermined level of salary provided for teachers in public secondary schools; investigate the relationship between teachers’ salary and school effectiveness in public secondary schools. The study adopted a descriptive research design of correlational type. The population for this study comprised all the principals and teachers in public secondary schools in North-central Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 859 respondents that comprised 99 principals and 760 teachers. The research instrument tagged “Teachers’ Salary Questionaire (TSQ) and School Effectiveness Questionnaire (SEQ)” with Reliability coefficients of 0.79 and 0.75 were realised for the teachers’ salary and school effectiveness questionnaire respectively using Cronbach Alpha. Descriptive statistics of Mean, and Standard Deviation were used to answer research question, while the sole Hypothesis was tested using Pearson product-moment correlation statistic. The findings of the study revealed that teachers in public secondary schools were provided with fairly satisfied salary in their teaching job with a mean of 51.27. While a significant relationship exists between teachers’ salary and school effectiveness in public secondary schools in North-central, Nigeria. Thus, it was concluded that teachers’ salary is a predictor of Public Secondary School Effectiveness in North-central, Nigeria. The study recommended that state governments should intensify their efforts by paying more attention to teachers’ salary through regular and prompt adequate payment of salary.