Annual expenditure per student on basic education is also below the OECD average. In 2013 per student expenditure for basic education in Lithuania, USD 9 675 (PPP), was approximately half that of OECD (USD 18 457) and EU-22 (USD 18 755) averages (OECD, 2016b). These differences in expenditure were mainly due to the comparatively low salaries of Lithuanian teachers and school administrators (Shew'bridge et al.,