Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-07-06

mum wage Of the elementary teacher Ia
$40 a year, while the man who cleans tho
street and Pushes the sewer earns S63l. In
intellectual Boston the teachers wage Is
1852 and the street laborer's s603. In Phil
adelphia the teacher gets $40 and the
street cleaner 1903. In San Francisco, one
of the most liberal Of all cities In school
matters, the elementary teacher begins
at $3.50 and the street cleaner at $3.50. In
Seattle the teacher gets $3.50 and the stree!
cleaner $69'.5O. In Buffalo the teacher
gets $500 and the street laborer $500. In
Cincinnati the teacher receives $500 and
the street cleaner $493.50. In New Haven.
university town. the street cleaner Is
laid 1884 and the teacher only $500, and
so It goes on through list Of forty-eight
of the principal cities Of the United States.
This table allows fifty weeks of work
a year to the street laborcr. while, OF
course, the teacher is in actual service
only thirty-eight or forty weeks. But the
teacher must live throughout the year on
her earnings of the school term. The
street laborer's day is ten hours. but tina
necessary work out of the class room now
brings the average working day OF all
city teachers up to ten hours.
1t may he argued that the teacher has
chance for advances in her salary. But
the average yearly salary Of all the wom-
en- teachers in the elementary schools Of
the 467 leading cities in the United States
is only $3.50. less than street cleaners re-
ocive in San Francisco and Seattle; prac-
ticnlly the same as street cleaners receive
in New York.
There is vast discrepancy also IN the
preparation required" says the report.
The wages of laborcrs here given repre-
, sent, it should be Rendered. the earnings
Of the commonest unframed labor. wnilc
in scarcely any city of Importance can a
man or woman secure position as
teat her without some previous expert
encc or special preparation. lr many OF
the important cities, too. preliminary to
this special preparation. IL high school
education is required.
III the rural schools teachers salaries
sink to a pttancc. Seven dollars week
is the average salary for all the women
teachers in the State of Vermont. includ-
ing the cities. and wages for teachers liz
typical ungrddcd schools are quoted as
in Massachusetts. IS n week in Connect
icut. IS d week in New York State. s65C
in New Jersey and So a week In Fcnnsyl-
rnnia. These figures in some cases apply
to men as we'll as women. and the num-
her CT weeks school in the year runs as
low as twenty-eight In tie South the
school year runs down to ten weeks, arc
wages are quoted as low as SO ii montl
for culored teachers. In the Far Wes
wages rise to correspond with the in
crea Sod cost of living. California seem.
to pay its country teachers better thar
any othcr State. It's lowest salary re
ported for a woman is sll p for thirty
two weeks school, and salaries run al
high as $3.50 a year for n woman in
rural school Of forty weeks
Of great interest TO women will be tn
comparison of the salaries of men ant
women teachers. In the 4e7 leading citio
a per cent. of the teachers are womci
and only 26 per cent. Of the elen,ontar,
, teachcrs are men. But the average sal
AIRY OF these irtn teachers in the clc
mcntary schools is sl.lCi year. whl
the average salary OF tho women ciemen
tary teachers, doing exactly til" sun
| work, is $50. While the average fo
women high school teachers is SiV1
wear. for men it Is sl"oS thclgh bot
must have the same preparation. Tn
average salary for women principals q
cl' nentary schools is s)7t. for men SLOT
The same difference runs into specia
, branches, men and women teachers G
f. music, drawing and SO IN receiving yer
v different salaries.