Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-08
ISNYDER'S PLAN
| ON TEACHER PAY
Would Provite For Smaller
Districts and the Poorly
Paid Instructors First

| Auditor General Charles A. Sny-
der, who was the legislator who
placed the teachers minimum salary
act on the statute books in the ses-
sion of 1903, has just completed at
| the Auditor Generals Department
survey of the teachers salaries in
Pennsylvania which he will submit
to the Legislature in advocacy oil
his plan to pay an increase to the
teachers of Pennsylvania who are
getting less than $500 and $500 a
year. One of the results of the sur
Vey is said ODE that there are some
counties where few teachers get
over $500 year and couple where
as low as 1915 is paid.
MY idea would be to grant the
teachers in the state an advance
where it is needed. Teachers would
have to serve three years to get 1t,
but they would then have something
to go on and we could hold the teach
ers," said Mr.. Snyder. This plan
would take s1.6s0,645.45 a year. but
benefit over $1,000 in the counties
that is under authority of county
school superintendents, and 1886 in
the cities and boroughs."
MIR. Snyder's figures show that
over 1900 teachers in Pennsylvania
receive less than 5000 year, almost
5000 of them less than $500. He
calculates that there are 43,734
teachers in the state and his plan
he holds would benefit a big per-
centage and benefit them perma-
nently. The figures made up from
the survey are studied by the Audi
tor General to-day and he said that
he. proposed to speak about them
as it showed that teachers were be-
ing poorly paid in many districts and
that the state should pay more so
that the minimum would be made
living wage, the school districts to
provide the rest.
The figures for the state show the
following:
Number of Pennsylvania teachers
receiving less than $500, $3.50.
Number of Pennsylvania teachers
receiving less than 5000. 1885.
Making total of 1926.
Amount required to pay $3.50
teachers $500 yearly, $4.475,oOO.
Amount required to pay s,3S5
teachers $500 yearly, S5,0s1, 900.
Hoking a total of $9,506,00O.
Amount now being received by
$3.50 teachers. s3,511, ,2S0.66.
<NhiChiI IOW belTB TGCG1Neu On
1886 teachers, $4.3S4.073.S9.
Making tota lof $7,S45,354.55.
Amount of increase required an
nually. S1,660,645.45.
Teachers reported from sixty-six
counties, 244,052.
Teachers reported from 11S cities
and boroughs, 1862.
Making a total number of teach
ers reported in the state 43,734
The teachers reported by the six
ty-six counties serve as follows:
Seven months, 1867; eight months,
5,6S4; nine months, 1915; ten
months, 1.1S6, with teachers bene-
fitting by the plan as follows: Seven
months. $3.50; eight months, 4,201;
nine months. 2,5S9. making a total
of 1870 benefitting by the plan and
s,312 not benefitting. The percentage
benefited would be .6544.
The total amount required to pay
the beneficiaries in the counties re-
porting would be:
To pay $3.50 7-month teachers
$500 annually, $4,475,000.
To pay 1901 S-month teachers
$500 annually. $2,520,600.
To pay 2.5S9 9-month teachers
$500 annually. sf.553,400, making
a total of $S,54s,000.
These teachers now receive se,-
974.634.80 as follows: Seven months,
SO. .511 ,2S0.66; 8 months. $2,056,-
6S7.64; Q months. $1,406,716.5o.
In regard to the teachers reported
reported from cities and boroughs
the statement says: Total number of
teachers reported 19,SS2; eight
month teachers benefited by plan,
AZ: 9-month, 1901; 1-2-month.
147: 10-month, 205 or 1886, leaving
1s.0S7 not benefited, a percentage
of .08103.
The requirements to pay these
teachers $500 annually would be: AZ
eight months, $4,000; 1901, nine
months, $720.600; 147 91-2 months,
sSS.200; 205 10 months, $123,000.
These now receive as follows: AZ 8
months, S21.743; 1901 9 months,
s657,S31; 147 91-2 months, $7S,6S4.-
rs; 205 10 months. S112,456, or
total of $S7O,719.T5.
The increase required annually to
pay county beneficiaries would be
$1.574, 4,365.20 and to pay the city and
borough beneficiaries would be $685.
280.25. or an aggregate of $780,
645.45.