Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-01
SALARIES OF TEACHERS.
This Country Leads in Liberaity of
 Expenditures for Educational Purposes;

If the salaries paid public school teachers is to be accepted as the stand ard of civilization and enlightenment. the United States holds an enviable po- sition among the nations, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. There are many school districts in the country where the wages received by teachers are too low, but the average monthly salary is large relatively to salaries in certain European countries where the standard of literacy among the masses as high and where educational facilities supposed to be of the best. sES
 1t appears from the report of the fed eeral commissioner of education for1904 that. the average monthly salary in the United States is $47.55 for male and $3910 for female teachers. In the North Atlantic division, which includes the New England and middle states, the average salary for males is $57.75; fe- males, $41.60. These figures are ex- ceeded by the western division. where the averages are $62.30 and S51. .94. Tn 1901 the average monthly wages in Pennsylvania were $44.14 and $38. .26. Tn forthcoming reports the Pennsylva- mia average will be higher, as the result of the law passed in 1903 fixing the minimum salary of school-teachers at $S5. Districts failing to comply with the statute will lose the state appropriation for the common schools. Massachu- setts pays the most generous monthly salary to male teachers, $140.94; Cali { fornia to female teachers, $65.S1. The figures for New York did not appear in the federation report from which the quotations are taken
 Comparisons with European con ditions are favorable to the United States. From the report of an investiga- tions of school salaries in various Euro pean countries published in the Boston Transcript, it appears that the male .E}gss Teachers in the United Kingdom get an average yearly salary of $350. Women in the same grade receive less st1an $200. In Copenhagen the highest Eearly salary paid male teachers is $35o, s2d this after eight years service. Nomen receive third less. The edu- sAtional standard of Prussia is high, Rutf4he average income of. a school Teacher in the small towns is only S21S a year. In the large cities he receives : on an average only $341. Tn Berlin a school superintendentr receives from $789 . to $925 and free lodgings. The lowest salary paid other teachers in Berlin is $315; the largest, $550. The teachers there are pensioneG to the extent of 75 per cent of eilast salary they received.
 Saxony requires her young teachers to ! serve two years without pay, and the highest salary paid is $180 year. First class teachers in Baden, in towns hav- ing more than 10. 1000 inhabitants receive $260. In Alsace-L Lorraine female teach CTS cannot expect more than $160. The minimum salary in France is $220. Spain Is backward country in educa- tionalmatters, About 65 per cent. of the population can neither read nor write. though compulsory education swas in- stroduced many years ago Madrid grants teachers s4OO, but in villages the ,asalaryxis only s100. It is declared that at least 60 per cent. of the Italians are without the rudiments of education. In