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Show Teacher salary increases in Grand School District total 78.8 since '72-7a f Classroom teachers who began their teaching careers in the Grand School District five years ago have received salary increases totaling $4,872, or 78.8. This fact was reported by Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit research organization in their annual survey of teacher salaries in Utah. The study shows that a teacher who began teaching in Grand District in 1972 would have received a starting salary of $6,180. In 1977-78, the same teacher with five years experience exper-ience would command a salary of $11,052. Approximately $3,512 of this increase represents repre-sents raises that have been made in the salary schedules during the past five years, with the remaining $1,360 accounted for by annual experience increments. According to the Foundation analysis, the above amounts were calculated for teachers with a bachelor's degree. Additional sums are provided for teachers who have acquir- ed added academic training. For example, a teacher in Grand School District with a master's degree and five years' teaching experience receives re-ceives a salary of $11,777 this year, or $725 more than a teacher with only a bachelor's degree. Foundation analysts point out that the salary increases provided to Utah teachers during recent years have largely closed the gap that formerly existed between Utah and the surrounding Mountain States. During 1976-77, the average salary for classroom teachers in Utah was only 3.7 below the average of the eight Mountain States, compared com-pared with a difference of 8.6 in 1967-68. When allowance is made for the fact that Utah provides 5 of the employee's share of retirement retire-ment costs, a special benefit not generally available in other states, Utah's average salary actually is found to be slightly above the Mountain States average. This year salary schedules for classroom teachers in Grand School District were boosted by an average of $744 or 7. In addition to this general salary hike, most teachers in Grand School District who presently are not at the top of the salary scale also received annual experience exper-ience increments averaging another $378 per year. Thus, the total average increase for teachers who have not reached the top step on the salary schedule this year was $1,122, or 10.56. |