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Table I

Monthly Salaries of Teachers in Elementary Schools in Kansas, 1942-43

 

 

One~Teacher Two-or—More
Monthly Schools Teacher Schools
Salaries (8 Mo. basis) (9 Mo. basis) Total
Less than $65 - 96 96
$65 - 7h ah 89 432
75 - 8h 602 154 756
So + 9h 730 29 979
95 - 104 4,78 276 754
105 = 114 119 2is 330
115 + 124 47 110 157
125 = 13k ; 21 76 97
135 - 14h 7 3 40
145 - 154 . 24 2h
155 - 164 3 16 19
165 - 17h 3 3
175 or more 8 g
Total 24h9 ,1246 3695
Median Salary $87.50 $99.75

Nearly two-thirds of these 3695 elementary school teachers (Table I) were on an
eight months salary basis and were teaching in one-teacher schools. Their typical
(median) salary per month was $87.50, but nearly fourteen per cent of them were
paid less than $75.00 per month and ninety-six teachers did not receive as much

as $65.00 per month.

In the two-or-more teacher schools the typical monthly salary was approximately a
hundred dollars ($99.75), on a nine months basis. Relatively few in either of
these -groups were paid as much as $150.00 per month. As a consequence of these
facts it is not difficult to believe that the educational opportunity of pupils in
these elementary schools must be seriously curtailed.