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In the eastern half of Kansas the salaries of elementary teachers for
1943-44 are distinctly lower than in the western half of the State.
This difference averages more than five dollars per month in rural and
third class city schools; about two dollars in city schools of first
and second class, A similar inferiority is found in the salaries of
high school teachers in rural and third class city high schools in
eastern Kansas. This difference between average (median) salaries in
these two divisions of the State is seventeen dollars per month,

which is equivalent to $153. per year. The higher average salaries

in western Kansas high schools pertain to all subjects excepting only
athletics. The salary difference, though much smaller, is in the same
direction with reference to high school teachers in cities of first
and second class. Even with no cities of the first class west of a
middle dividing line, the salaries of high school teachers in cities of
the second class i that area average ten dollars a year higher than
in castern Kansas. Bat the three largest cities in the latter area
are not included in our tabulations.

Table I. Teachers! Salaries in Elementary Schools, Kansas 1943-1944.

Nunber of Median Salary Middle Fifty Per C ent
Type of School. Teachers Per Month of Salaries
One-teacher _
(8 mo. basis) 2803 $105.00 $83.00 to $121.00
Two-or-more
teacher (9 mo.) 1206 125.00 110.00 -- 136.00
City schools
(9 mo. basis) 1325 142.00 128.00 -— 155,00

In Table I, two-or—more teacher schools include the elementary schools
in cities of the third class as well as in unincorporated communities.
'City Schools' refer to those in cities of first and second class.
Teachers in one-teacher schools (2803 of them) nominally receive an
average (median) salary of $105.00 for eight months of school, or
$840.00 per school year (but, because of deductions, they do not
actually receive that much). The middle fifty per cent indicates

that one-fourth of them do not receive more than $83.00 per month,

that one-fourth of the number are paid $121.00 or more, and that three-
fourths receive not more than the latter amount. The monthly salary
of teachers in graded schools is reported on a nine-month basis.
Accordingly the average annual salary of teachers in two-or-more teacher
elementary schools is $1125 (9 x $125.00); and in city schools $1278,
before the usual deductions are made.