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Show Page 4- - Newsprint Xovcml)cr 17, 1982 10.8 Percent in One Year eachers Salaries Increase Uintah I Salary schedules for teachers with a bachelor's degree in the Uintah School District were raised by an average of S 1.627, or 10.8 percent this year. In addition. most of the teachers not at the top step of the salary scale also received an annual experience increment averaging another $614. Thus, the total increase for a teacher w ho had not reached the top step on the salary schedule averaged $2,241. or school 14.9 percent during the 1982-8- 3 vear. lb esc were some of the acts reported by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in their annual analysis of teacher salaries in Utah. The beginning salary for a teacher in the Uintah School District this year is $1 3.5(H). The salary schedule includes regular increases for experience and added academic training. Thus, experienced teachers with a master's degree will receive up to $23,623 per year in the Uintah school School District during 1982-8- 3 vear. Tor the state as a whole, the starting salarv for a teacher with a bachelor's degree will average $13,682. with beginning salaries ranging from $12,659 in the Ogden School District to $16,510 in the l:mcry School District. The average maximum salary for a teacher in Utah with a master's degree this year is $23,854. or about 74 percent more than the beginning salarv for a teacher with onlv a bachelor's degree. m TABLE ANALYSIS m In several Utah school all of the annual salaries lor teachers listed 5 above are for approximately teaching days or about nine months of actual service. Teachers with special duties and those who teach summer classes receive added compensation. In addition to the salary increases several Utah school districts began paying all or a portion of the 3.95 percent retirement contribution formerly paid by the employee this year. Millard and the Prepared by foundation analysts explain that School UTAH District, FOUNDATION SALARY INCREASES district, an tha district district contribution represented Washington OF average and 8460 12.781 from began increase in the district salary Ogden all or paying in the TEACHERS CLASSROOM FOR take-ho- School me District 1 a WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN UTAH 1982-- 85 portion of the 3.95S retirement contribution formerly pay of approximately S682 (4.21 in the Millard School above the increase shown in the above table. schedules submitted to the State Board of paid by the employee. This in the District, 8646-14.28- Education. 180-18- pro-ide- d. Czech Musicians Start Concert Season Fourteen professional musicians, coming all the way from Czechoslovakia, provided a great beginning for the current season of the local Community Concert Association. The Slovak Chamber Orchestra performed last Wednesday at Vernal Junior High School with a flawless concert. Music by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Benjamin Brittan was played by the orchestra on stringed instruments, under the direction of Conductor Bohdan Warchal. It was a very successful concert, according to Curtis May, president of the local chapter of the Community Concert School Districts paid the entire 3.95 per cent in behalf of the employee while Ogden School District paid 2.6 per cent of the employee share. In effect, this action constituted an addi-tionsalarv increase in those districts, as e it raised their final pay. Foundation the to According study, a teacher w ho began teaching in the Uintah School District during the 1977-7- 8 school year received a starting salary of $9,000. Today, that same teacher with five years of experience would receive $16,200. This represents an increase of $7,200. or 80.0 per cent over five year period. Approximately $5,400 of that increase represents changes in the salary schedule and $1,800 represents annual experience increments. Association. He added that it's a shame Basin-are- a residents aren't able to share local culture with foreign musicians like these. None of the 14 musicians spoke any English. They did have an American traveling with them who serves as business manager and translator. Apparently, the Czechoslovakians haven't seen much of American, except for a lot of freeways. May said they're traveling on a musicians' budget. They buy food along in their the way and cook it on a bus. The group did get off the bus long enough, however, to spend the night at the Diamond Hills Motel in Vernal. May said this group will give 40 concerts in 50 days and their next stop after the Vernal concert was Riverton, Wyoming on Thursday, November 11. In addition to the Czech concert, local association members will be treated to three more performances this season. Bill Shcustik will perform authentic folk ballads on February 16. March 30 is the date for a concert by the Award-winnin- g pianist, James Dick. The Anal concert of the season, will be the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble on May 2. "Everything we present is top quality musicianship, said May. in commenting. on the upcoming concerts. He added that the pianist whos coming to Vernal in March has won a very important prize: the Washington al m take-hom- Moscow-Tchaikovs- ky Award. We're just scraping by," May said of the financial status of the local chapter of the Community Concert Association. He added that costs for concerts have gone up dramatically. The reserve of funds the association did have on hand was drained By comparison, the official consumer index rose by 59 per cent between September, 1977 and September, 1982. The study also indicates that if a teacher who began teaching in the Utah schools five years ago had aquired added academic training, he or she would have received an even greater salary boost during the period. this year and May said the association will really have to hustle to come up with a good season for next year. All the coming concerts in Vernal will be performed at the Junior High School auditorium, and will start at 8:15 p.m. Anyone having questions about the concerts can contact Curtis May at 789-190. or Lorna Condon at 99 789-183- LETTER TO THE EDITOR hoi-pla- te , three weeks since the request was made Dear Editor: and the school board has to date refused We are a recently formed committee interested in the kind of government and to give us the information. It appears that the quality of life we are getting today. they have not heard of the Freedom of With the problems we have in the Information Act. Until we are shown otherwise we are of economy today we must w'atch expenses the opinion that two people could have and make every dollar count. We have observed that we do nof made the trip for a fraction of the cost and always get our money's worth from our .accomplished everything that was done. We beleivc that it is time the taxpayers elected officials and it is our aim to find find out where their money is going. out where these dollars go. If you have a different opinion or would We are concerned about the recent trip sponsored by the Uintah School District like to join us in an effort to find where our to Denver and paid for with our money. tax dollars go let us hear from you. We called the superintendent and requested a detailed report on the trip to CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT include who went, the total cost and what was accomplished. It has now been about Vernal, Utah |
