UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCA
BULLETIN, 1915, NO. 31

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Letter of transmittal..

Prefatory statement.

I.--Introduction and summary.

Previous investigations of teachers' salaries.

The increased cost of living....

Cost of room and board in different cities.

Earnings of school workers compared with earnings in other occu-

pations....

Salaries of county officials.

Rural teachers, farm laborers, and rural mail carriers.

Teachers' salaries compared with other school expenses.

Maximum and minimum salaries..

Methods in salary campaigns..

II.-Statistics of salaries for 1914,15....

Table 1.-Salaries of officers and of high and elementary school-teach-

ers in cities having between 2,500 and 5,000 population....

Table 2.-Salaries of rural-school teachers in certain counties.

Table 3.-Salaries of county superintendents...

III.-A study of salaries of elementary teachers ....

Table 4.-Average and median salaries and per cent of variability....

Table 5.—-Frequency of different salaries of elementary-school teach-

ers in cities having over 5,000 inhabitants....

Salaries of elementary-school teachers in 1903-4 and 1912–13......

Number and per cent of elementary-school teachers in 1912-13 receiv-

ing salaries as high or higher than the median, lower quartile, and

upper quartile salaries of 1903-4..

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