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Show Teacher Salary Increases total 70.3 since 1970 year. Thus, the total average increase for teachers with a bachelor's degree in the Beaver School District who have not reached the top step amounted to $1,229 in the 1975-76 school year. The beginning salary for teachers with a bachelor's degree in the Beaver School District was equal to $8,043 in 1975-76. This compares with a statewide average beginning be-ginning salary of $7,986. A teacher with a bachelor's degree can earn $11,904 in the Beaver School District after 12 years of experience. Additional amounts are provided pro-vided for teachers who obtain ob-tain academic training beyond be-yond the bachelor's degree. In most cases these annual salaries are for approximately approxi-mately nine months of service. ser-vice. Foundation analysts point out that while teacher salaries sal-aries have risen sharply in Utah and the Beaver School District during recent years, they have also increased substantially sub-stantially in most of the other oth-er states. As a result, salary sal-ary levels of Utah teachers still are slightly below national na-tional andregional averages. Estimates for 1974-75 indicate indi-cate that the average salary paid to classroom teachers in Utah last year was about 4.6 below the average of the eight Mountain States. Utah, however, does pay the employee's em-ployee's share of teacher retirement re-tirement costs, a benefit not generally available in the other states. When this special spe-cial benefit is taken into consideration, con-sideration, the average salary sal-ary paid to Utah teachers last year was approximately equal to that paid to the average ave-rage teacher in the Mountain States, Classroom teachers who began a teaching career in the Beaver School District have received salary increases in-creases totaling $4,184, or 70.3 since 1970. This fact was brought out in an analysis anal-ysis of teacher salaries prepared pre-pared by Utah Foundation, the private research organization. organi-zation. According to the Foundation Founda-tion report, a teacher with a bachelor's degree who began be-gan teaching in the Beaver School District during the 1970-71 school year received receiv-ed a starting salary of $5,-970. $5,-970. This same teacher with five year's teaching experience exper-ience now would be receiving receiv-ing an annual salary of $9,-651 $9,-651 during the 1975-76 school year. Approximately $2,576 of this increase came from boosts in the overall salary schedules, with the remaining $1,125 coming from annual increments for added teaching experience. In addition to these direct salary increases, Utah now provides the employee's share of teacher retirement costs which formerly was borne by the teacher. This special benefit adds another $483 to a teacher in the Beaver Beav-er School District with five years of experience. Thus, . the total effective salary increase in-crease over the five-year period is equal to $4,184, or 70.3. Moreover, teachers who earned added college credit during this period might be entitled to an even greater increase. The Foundation study shows that salary schedule increases averaging $907 or 10 were provided to classroom class-room teachers with a bachelor's bache-lor's degree in the Beaver School District this year. This compares with a statewide state-wide average increase of $889, or 9.8, in the teacher salary schedules. In addition to the overall raise in the salary level, most teachers in the Beaver School District who are not at the top bracket of the salary sal-ary scale also received a normal experience increment incre-ment averaging $322 this |