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KNEC to pay 2019 supervisors, invigilators and other contracted professionals

Knec Chief Executive Officer Dr Mercy Karogo at a past event.

The Kenya National Examinations Council, knec, is finalizing the process of payment for the 2019 contracted professionals. It is good news for the contracted professionals who included: Centre Managers (Principals and Head Teachers), Supervisors, Invigilators, drivers and Security Personnel. “KNEC is finalizing on the payment issue, will pay in the shortest time possible,” reads a tweet on the Council’s official Twitter Page.

According to Payment details released by the Council, Primary school heads who acted as Centre Managers for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, KCPE, exams are expected to pocket a daily subsistence allowance of Sh500; for a total of 4 days (including rehearsal day).

On their part, Secondary schools Principals are expected to also earn a daily allowance of Sh500 for 18 days. The highest paid Supervisor will walk away with a sum total of Sh12,510 while the highest paid invigilator will pocket Sh9860.

The 2019 National exams were administered and managed by about 191,000 contracted professionals.

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The table below summarizes the expected pay for the 2019 Contracted Professionals:

Contracted Profesional	Exam	Region	Pay Per Day	Total Days engaged	Total Pay
Centre Manager	KCPE	All Regions	Sh500	4	Sh2,000
Centre Manager	KCSE	All Regions	Sh500	18	Sh9,000
Invigilators	KCPE	All Regions	Sh538	3	Sh1,615
Invigilators	KCSE	Nairobi & Mombasa	Sh580	17	Sh9,860
Invigilators	KCSE	Other Regions	Sh460	17	Sh7,820
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Supervisors	KCPE	All Regions	Sh621	4	Sh2,485
Supervisors	KCSE	Nairobi & Mombasa	Sh695	18	Sh12,510
Supervisors	KCSE	Other Regions	Sh630	18	Sh11,340
Security Officers	KCSE	All Regions	Sh420	16	Sh6,720
Drivers	KCSE	All Regions	Sh405	16	Sh6,480

A total of 697,222 candidates sat for the 2019 KCSE examination across the 10,287 examination centres; countrywide between Monday 4th November and Wednesday 27th November. Of this, 355,782 were male candidates representing a percentage of 51.03 %.

For KCPE examination (done between October 29 and 31, 2019) the total candidature was 1,083,456. Of this number, 543,582 were male candidates. The total number of female candidates who sat the examination was 539,874.

The contracted professionals should have updated their information via the knec contracted online portal as required by the council.

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