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Show Earnings Higher For Career Teachers in Utah Total potential lifetime earnings earn-ings for a career teacher with 1 a bachelor's degree in Utah over a 40-year period is nearly near-ly $7,500, or an average of ; $88 per year, greater than the Mountain States average. This fact was highlighted in a Utah Foundation analysis analy-sis of a recent Utah State Board of Education survey of professional salaries in the Mountain States. The study shows that the average teacher teach-er with a bachelor's degree would receive $282,177 during a 40-year teaching career in Utah based on 1967-68 salary levels. The average teacher with similar qualifications in the Mountain States could expect ex-pect to earn $274,713 during the 40-year teaching career. Although the potential lifetime life-time earnings of a career teacher tea-cher in Utah are greater than the Mountain States average, the average annual salary for all teachers in Utah is approximately approx-imately $-100 below the Mountain Moun-tain States average. Foundation Founda-tion analysts explain this seeming contradiction by the fact that "average" salary data da-ta do not reflect significant differences in academic preparation, prep-aration, years of experience, and salary plans for teaching personnel. The Utah Foundation reports re-ports points out that while salaries paid to beginning teachers in Utah are generally general-ly below those paid in surrounding sur-rounding states, maximum salaries in Utah are higher than the Mountain States average. av-erage. Since the average teacher tea-cher reaches the maximum level le-vel on his salary scale after ten to 13 years, a career teacher tea-cher is better rewarded by the higher maximum potential than by the higher rate in initial earnings. Thus, over a lifetime teaching career, the total earnings of the Utah teacher with a bachelor's degree de-gree is greater than the average aver-age for the eight Mountain States. The Foundation analysis points out that the additional increment provided to teachers teach-ers with a master's degree in Utah is lowest among the eight Mountain States. As a result, total potential lifetime earnings for a teacher with a , master's degree in Utah is below be-low the Mountain States average av-erage based on 1967-68 salary schedules. Another point brought out by the Foundation analysis of the State Board of Education report is that the larger school districts in the other states generally pay higher salaries than do the smaller school districts. In Utah, however, salaries are more or less uniform uni-form throughout the State. As a result, salary levels in the larger urban school districts of Utah are below the salary levels established for similar-sized similar-sized districts in other states. Salary levels in the smaller rural districts, on the other hand, are higher in Utah |
