The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-26

'Ouhu III 1919, no. 10, w nOlp
Number $50 Of the publications Of the
United States Bureau Of Education. IN
der tito Of The Tangible Re,cdrds OF
Iedchtno Government Printing Office,
washington. d. c., JAMES c.. BoYKIN,
editor Of the bureaus publications, and
ROBERTA K1No have compiled a detailed
statement of salaries paid to 1.-THE sew
eral classes" Of public school teachers
and officers and q less comprehensive
but sufficiently enlightening set OF
tables Of college salaries.
The compllers have suffered the mos.
painful martyrdom of the statistician:
they have voluntarily suppressed n sys-
temful or deduction" foregoing the de-
lights OF diagram, median and similar
devices or graphic representation sup
Elementary to the straight lines Of type.
in order to let the figures talk" They
do, however. present few pages of alb
stract from State school laws and n
photography of educational finance
with 345 Items. The report would have
had wider usefulness had tho reporters
been little less Spartan In their self
denial and sought the middle way be-
tween numerals unadorned and the
usual scholastic embroidery OF theory.
Hair dozen pages OF objective sum-
| mary would do the work OF a hundred
pages OF subjective comment The re-
port for the colleges is somewhat dis
! counted by the enforced secrecy as 10
institutional Identity. which prevents
even sectional classification, but the DIFF
ferentiation by State or private main
tenance and by size OF endowment Is
broad enough to satisfy the not imperti-
nent curiosity OF the plain man OF busi-
ness.
In the largest Cities those OF more
than 100000 population. salaries have
the highest average but exhibit also
the greatest divergence between mini
mum and maximum. In these cities
superintendents' salaries vary from s4.-
900 10 $4,000. with an average OF S7.17s:
those OF high school principals from
S1.7Oo 10 $4,000, average 1856: OF high
school teachers, from s450 10 $3.50.
! average s1.746. The $3.50 is so extreme
ly low that II may fairly be assumed
TO represent some special condition,
such as part time service: and the prac-
teal as distinguished from the arith-
metical average Is perhaps as high as
$1,000. In the elementary schools %
these cities the principals average s2,429
and the teachers s1.0lS. Kindergarten
,boir asststar,s ,ro,,, 1000 ~ ' 80 anu
ossIs,ar,s a., a. 80 -, ~ 800 Wv
naId ,ho. ,h"ir .s..,,o S oeins pe''eI
sma,,or ~. ri ,,p 80, 'c' III
ayora,o. ht,,h. - -, :. 80 P'g
Tors nn, 49, 49, ,. .'o s' ~,
scboIos,ic ,orn,tro,o,,, - Wv.
,bore 10 No o,,a,,,a.;,.. a,.a
,y,oon d,roc,o 80 .,.. -.
ono In ras,,o,, =, -, % -. 80 o'''
-, ,.,,
.., ''le I"teI,heuia'e CITY ciassl-
ny Popu'a''oh II may reason
ar'S pe ass uiiIeu tna' tne entlre scned-
10y consistently as uoes
- Va Guy on. siaue' iono" 'hen
Vi .ne hleh schooI
80 a.. , average IN
80 N' o,S VI ops " Sl'-lo III
s,oco ""u -oo.VVo' 10
no ooo. " =, oeo '~een "V'ooV anu
~ o0o W 800 III sa"se vi -o'oVo 10
49,, ~ 400 . ~ " go II, Owns oe-
ot,toa -, -. - 900 az, many III
81 ooo go ~ NV" 'u' 'cSs IMAM
,,c,o, ~ "suie' are hot
,,i,,, ~. ~ -, ',i'7 ~ Vi scr ,Ve'
,I,at,., i.,s.t 80 ''o'' ""'
-, 80 80 SOL ~ on m
$500 niaS,,so, ~, G.. "''-e' WI, We
f,,r bu,a.oa ,au.. - ooo : -.
,,o,,,,a,I"r Va ''0'' VI ii'oie
School ,aacher. AZ. No, .~.rn. ,ror,
advances in ,hs cos, NJ living. 40 tbejr
salaries advance Win ~ In Recon
the salary of the siiperIntendent seems
to have stood constan,lv a, tho "a 200
OF 1878. the first wear OF its record
until 1905. when II was Increased N
$4,000. Directors Of kinderyartens got
$3.50 from 1895 70 1914 when thev
were reduced to n FIRST wear" allowance
Of s., 500, with increase OF 500 for each
years additional service until the maxi
mum of $3.50 is attained. In Cincin-
natl there seems TO have been no change
in the pay of teachers in the high and
elementary schools from 1907 TO 1918.
In st. Louis high school salaries have
varied principally in respect of advances
for lengthening terms OF service. In the
rural schools there Is wide range. not
only In amounts paid but in the amount
OF service required. dependent upon the
varying length of school terms. For a
rural teacher $500 seems to be, as things
co. good years pay; but some such
teachers earn not more than $50. while
others go as high as $500 or 5000 year.
In New York State $500 for term of