Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-21
STATE TEACHERS PAY.

Superintendent Waller Endeavors to Sc
cure Higher Wages for Woman Instruc-
tors-Matters Calling for Special AT.
tention From the School Authorities Of
tho Commonwealth.
HA RRIsBURG, June 0.-Superintendent
of Public instruction D. j. Waller, Jr., is
making an earnest effort at present to Sc
cure higher wages for teachers in certain
localities for the coming year, and also to
obtain an increase of the school term. Some
figures which he cites in this connection are
of considerable interest, and prove most
concIusively that some steps should be
taken as soon as possible to remedy the ex-
sting condition of affairs
In East Berlin the salary of the female
teachers is only S24 month; in Tyrone 1t
is S23 90 a month for both male and female
teachers; Tyrone, in fact, is one Of the very
few places in the State in which work Is
paid for in the abstract and not according
to the question of sex Sharpsburg dis
triet averages Sill IL per month for its
male teachers and only SAT month for its
female teachers.
In Beaver borough, Beaver county. the
salary Of the men averages S151 25; the SAL
ary of the women but S58 80. At Beaver
Falls the discrepancy is still greater, the
salary of males averaging $156 25 a month;
the salary of the females but $3S 60; at New
Brighton, Beaver county. mems salaries
average S13S 8S; women's $40 90; in Roch-
ester district, men receive on an aver
age S125 month, women but S43 46. Cole
rain district, Bedford county, is not liberal
to either sex, paying the men but S24 35,
and the women 500 Is. In Harrison dis
trict there is the rather remarkable dis
tinction of l cent month in favor of female
teachers, they receiving S24 OF, while the
men get 1874 Oh.
The difference is not very startling, but
it is refreshing to note that at least one dis
trict in this great Commonwealth acknowl-
edges the fitness of women to be educators
of the youth. There are scores of districts
that employ women exclusively, but they
pay them extremely low wages. not more
than S23 or S2S month. These schools, as
a rule, average from so to 100 pupils each,
so that the position of instructor therein is
by no means a sinecure.
Reading, again, gives its male teachers
S104 % month, its female teachers $40 80.
Leroysville pays the men S77 II, the
women $22. Sayre gives the men 500,
women S34 80. Troy borough, Bradford
county, pays males $133 80, and women
s43. Centerville gives men 500, women.
men S112 23, and women SAT 62. Clear
field borough pays men S125, women $40 62.
For low salaries, Thompson, Fulton County,
takes the palm, paying but S14 month;
Belfast gives but SIS 20; Greenwood, Craw-
ford County, SIG; Penn Line, Sic so; Rich
moad, Sic 80, and a very large num-
ber of. school districts average less than
SIS month for teachers salaries.
The great discrimination between the
salaries of men and women extends to
almost every portion of the State, not ez-
cepting the large cities, such as Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg, Allegheny, Scranton, etc.
This is one of the matters in which DR..
Waller is anxious to see a change. In
Philadelphia the average salary of the
men is S133 month; of the women, it is
$50 "a. In Allegheny county it is S64 06
for the men, and S41 20 for the women.
The average, school year for the entire
State is now Z. 40 months, but as the large
places have 10 months school, some of the
smaller districts, which stand in the great
est need of educational instruction, have
but five months This matter is now re-
ceiving special attention from the school
authorities.