Choose rural
Rural and remote NSW offers great schools across NSW where you can enhance your career, receive a range of incentives and make a real difference.
How far can teach.Rural take you?
Rural and remote NSW has so much to offer, including great schools in 33 destinations across NSW where you could enhance your career, receive a range of incentives and benefits and make a real difference.
Find out about the benefits and incentives that may be available to both temporary and permanent teachers and executive staff at individual schools.
Benefits vary from school to school, but may include:
- a new Rural Teacher Incentive of between $20,000 and $30,000 gross per annum
- a new Experienced Teacher Benefit of $10,000 gross for a maximum of five years
- annual retention benefit of $5,000 gross for a maximum of ten years
- rental subsidy of 50% at 4 point incentive schools
- additional personal leave and professional development days
- locality allowances
- transfer points.
Explore rural and remote destinations
Explore what it is like to live and work in a range of destinations with incentives available in the south, west or north of the state, or choose specific areas on the map:
Maximise your permanent employment opportunities as a teacher
Indicate that you are willing to teach in rural and remote locations of the state in your application for employment as a teacher in NSW public schools and maximise your opportunities for employment.
If you wish to change the locations in which you are prepared to accept a permanent teaching position, it is better for you to nominate specific school locations and areas in which you would accept an offer.
If you wish to make changes to your location preferences after receiving your final approval to teach in NSW public schools you are now able to update your location preferences in Employee Self Services (ESS) by navigating to ‘my details’ and then ‘my preferences’. A quick help guide has also been created to assist you through this process.
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Benefits and incentives
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Contact us
For more information regarding rural and remote benefits and incentives please contact EdConnect.
- Existing employees of the department, phone 1300 32 32 32 (select option 3) or log an online enquiry.
- New applicants to the department, phone 1300 30 04 98.