UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
School of Education

REPORT ON SCHOOL SALARIES IN KANSAS FOR THE YEAR 1944-1945

Salaries of more than eight thousand schocl employees have been
tabulated for this report. Many of these have been tabulated several
times, in relation to amount of salary, type of service, length of
service and amount of academic or professional preparation. Separate
information is reported with reference to different types of elementary
and high schools, also with reference to school principals, superintendents,
nurses, custodians, coaches, etcetera. It has been possible by means of
separate tabulations to compare the salaries paid in the western half
of the state with those in the eastern half.

Sixty-two county s crintendents provided for use in this report
the teacher-lists, clascvifications, and salaries, (or some part of
these) pertaining to their counties, although sixteen of these teacher-
directories lacked information on salaries or arrived too late to be
included in this study. Ina similar way fifty-nine superintendents

of first or second class cities in the state cooperated in providing
salary information. So did close to two hundred principals of rural
high schools and superintendents of smaller cities.

As in preceding years, the analyses presented in this report are
made by the University School of Education as a service to-school
officials in the state and to all other interested persons. It is assumed
that definite knowledge of prevailing practices and trends is necessary
for intelligent planning and administration.

It should be kept clesrly in mind in reading this report that
teachers do not actually receive the salaries stated. The contract
salary is in a sense only a nominal salary, for, after deductions have
been made for income taxes and for the teacher retirement annuity fund,
the monthly compensation is considerably reduced. While the reduction
varies according to family status, etcetera, it may exceed twenty percent
of the reported selary for some individuals and be much less for others.
Such reductions are compulsory and defensible, but it must be noted that
a portion of the stated monthly salary does not come intc the hands of
the employee for his immediate and personal use.

One may also find it desirable to recognize that salary increases,
as compared with the preceding year, have in many instances been accompanied
by probable deteriorati n in teaching personnel. In one county (which
pays notably low salar, =: to its teachers) 87 per cent of its fifty-four
teachers in one-room schools are teaching this year on an emergency (4h)
or normal training (3) certificate. This situation is unusual only in