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Show UTAH FOUNDATION REPORT Iron Co. teachers' pay increased 48.8 percent in past five years take-home pay of the typical teacher with five-years experience. ex-perience. In addition to these Increases, In-creases, the Foundation study Observes that districts In Utah provide added compensation for added training during the past five years, the total salary sal-ary Increase over the past five years could exceed the am-ounts am-ounts shown aibove. (Despite the salary gains made by Utah teachers during recent years, the salary level of Utah's instructional staff last year was 3.5 'below the Over the past five years, the average teacher in Iron School District with a (bachelor's degree de-gree has recaived salary increases in-creases or equivalent benefits totaling $2,501 or 48.87r. This was pointed out toy Utah Foundation, the private research re-search organization in their latest analysis of teacher salaries sal-aries In Utah. A teacher with a bachelor's degree beginning a teaching career in Iron School District during the 19G7C8 school year would have received a starting salary of $5,125. After five years experience, this same teacher would be receiving re-ceiving a salary of $7,298. Ap-proximately Ap-proximately $923 of this increase in-crease came from boosts in the salary schedules with the remaining $1,250 coming from annual increments for added teaching experience. In addition, addi-tion, the State this year began to assume the teacher's share : of state retirement costs. This added anothor $328 to the average of the eight Mountain States and 11.5 'under the U.S. average. By comparison, the salary level paid to Utah's instructional staff in 19G7 C8 was 1.6 less than the Mountain Moun-tain States average and 10.8 below the U.S. average. ; Altogether, the total salary and 'benefit increase in Iron School District averaged 8.14 in 1972-73. This included the 4.5 retirement contribution and 3.64 as a normal salary Increment. Beginning salaries for a teacher In th.e Iron School Dis. triot is $6,185 during the pre-sent pre-sent school year. The maxi-mum maxi-mum salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree Is $8,535 and Is reached, after 9 years, with additional amounts for advanced training. For most individual teachers, these a-mounts a-mounts are for approximately nine months of teaching service, ser-vice, the report pointed out. |