Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-17
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK
Equal Pay for Equal Work is Now
Live Question.
PAY FOR TEACHERS IN POINT
Women want same Salaries rs Men
when Called on Co Do the
same work In same
Way.

Wide variations In the pay Tor the
same or similar work Is one OF the most
striking situations revealed by the in
Vestigation Of teachers salaries just
completed by the United States Bureau
OF Education under tho direction OF j,
.C. Boykln, editor OF tho Bureau. Pub
lie elementary school teachers may re-
celve $500 a year. as some do in New
York city, or AS year, as In certain
rural communities. Even In cities OF the
same class there are considerable DIFF
ferences in the salaries paid teachers,
on the administrative side there are
county superintendents with pay rang
ing from sll5 70 $4,000 per annum, and
college presidents receiving salaries all
the way from 5000 to Sl2tOo,
In city school systems salaries have
increased steadily In recent years, par
ticularly in the western states; and in
general. salaries In city school systems
are fairly we'll standardized. The average
salary OF the superintendent OF schools
in cities Of over 100000 population Is
T17s the range is from $4,000 to $4,000,
In the same group of cities high school
principals average s3,565 and elementary
teachers, sl,ols. Even in the smallest
oiAies listed, those between 5000 and
10000 population, salaries are fairly uni
form. The maximum for superintendents
in this group ia 5000 and the average
s., elb but elementary teachers show an
annual average OF 1888, with salaries as
high as 1850 and as low as Sloi. II Is
In the colleges and universities that the
widest variation prevails. The salaries
OF men with the rank OF professor
range from $3.50 to $500 Professors"
in some institutions receive less than
instructors or even Assistants In
others. Salaries OF deans of these in
situations vary from $500 TO $1,000 Uni
versity teachers OF subjects for which
there Is direct commercial demand out
side receive somewhat higher salaries
than those in charge of the traditional
academic subjects, but the difference Is
less than might be expected. The highest
average salaries for full professors are
paid in law and civil engineering. Law
claims the highest paid professorship in
any subject, with one salary of 1880;
but there are professors OF physics,
geology and Latin who receive $1,000
II is significant, however, that on the
basis of the figures reported, most col
! lege tenCnlnB, paTIltulhllS III NV Ah"'
two years, is done by men OF Instructor
grade with salaries Of 1900 to $500 OF
by assistants, who receive on the av'
erage about $500. usually for half-tim'
services.
Quite as noteworthy is the variatio
in salaries for state superintendent O
public instruction. The salaries OF IN
chief school officers in the various state
range from $1,000 in New Jersey IN
New York. 1850 in Illinois; $500 In Mas
sachusetts, and 5000 in Pennsylvania
Wisconsin. California, Indiana and Lou
Islana; down to 5000 in Delaware, Ne
braska and Nevada; 1890 in South Caro-
lima and 1880 in South Dakota.
The report contains detailed comparl
sons, showing the increase in teachers
salaries at different periods. The figure
thus collected will be utilized as the basil
for further investigation by the Burea
OF Education and by organizations sc
as the National Education association
to determine the actual conditions Of tn
teaching profession.