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Show salary iiieroasG District this year is $12,685. The salary schedules include regular increases for experience ex-perience and added academic training. Thus, experienced teachers with a master's degree de-gree receive up to $20,624 In the Beaver School District. Dis-trict. 1 All of the above salary amounts are for approximately approxi-mately 180-185 teaching days or about nine months of actual act-ual service. Teachers with special duties and those who teach summer classes receive re-ceive added compensation for suoh service. Foundation analysts point out that a teacher who began teaching in Beaver School District during the 1976-77 school year received a starting salary of $8,847. Today, that same teacher with five years of experience would receive $15,935.This represents Increases totaling total-ing $7,088, or 80.1 over the . five-year period. Approximately Approxi-mately $5,208 of that Increase In-crease represents changes in the salary schedules and $1,880 represents annual experience ex-perience Increments. By comparison, the official consumer's con-sumer's price index rose by fiO.0 between August, 1976, and August, 1981. The study also indicates that if a teacher who began teaching in Utah schools five years ago had acquired added academic training, he or she would have received an even greater salary boost during the period. Salary schedules for teachers with a bachelor's degree in the Beaver School District were raised by an average of '"$1,254 or 8.7 this year. In addition, most teachers not at the top of the salary "scale also received re-ceived an annual experience increment averaging another $749.Thus,the total Increase for a teacher who had not reached the top step In the salary schedule averaged $2,003 or 13.9 during the 1981-82 school year. These were some of the facts reported by Utah Foundation, Foun-dation, the private research organizatlon,ln their regular annual study of teacher salaries sal-aries In Utah. Although the teacher salary raise for 1981-82 Is somewhat below the record increase provided last year, it generally Is In line with the Increases made during the previous three years. According to the Foundation Founda-tion study, the value of the basic weighted pupil unit was raised 6 by the 1981 Utah Legislature.While this legislature leg-islature appropriation for schools Is a major factor In the total funds available for teacher salaries the actual salary levels are determined de-termined by negotiations held between teacher representatives rep-resentatives and local school boards. These negotiations decide what proportion of the available funds wll be allocated for teacher salaries sal-aries and what proportion will go for other school expenditures. ex-penditures. Throughout the state, teachers generally fared somewhat better than state employees, according to the report. The 1981 Utah Legislature Legis-lature decreed that state em -ployees were to be given an across-the-board increase of 4 effective July 1, 1981. In addition, some state employees em-ployees also qualified for a 3.5 in grade merit increase for a total salary hike of 7.5. Utah teachers, on the other hand, were given an average 7.3 Increase in their salary schedules this year. In addition, ad-dition, teachers not at the top of the salary scale also received an experience Increment In-crement of 4.2 for a total increase averaging 11.5.A -mong the forty school districts, dis-tricts, total salary Increases ranged from 7.5 in the South Sanpete School District to 16.7 In the Rich County School District. The starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree in the Beaver School |