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Show Utah Foundation Reports PC Teachers' Salaries up 78.5 Classroom teachers who began their teaching careers in the Park City School District five years ago have received salary increases totaling $4,935 or 78.5. This fact was reported by Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit nonpro-fit research organization in ther uniucily survey of teacher salaries in Utah. The study shows that a teacher who began teaching in the Park City School District in 1972 would have received a starting salary of $6,289. In 1977-78, the same teacher with five years experience would command a salary of $11,224. Approximately $3,691 of this increase represents raises that have been made in the salary schedules during the past five "years, with the remaining $1,224 accounted for by annual experience exper-ience increments. According to the Foundation analysis, the above amounts were calculated for teachers with a bachelor's degree. Additional sums are provided for teachers who have acquired added academic acade-mic training. For example, a teacher in the Park City School District with a master's degree and five year's teaching experience exper-ience receives a salary of $12,375 this year, or $1,151 more than a teacher with only a bachelor's degree. Foundation analysts point out that the salary increases provided to Utah teachers during recent years have largely closed the gap that formerly existed between Utah and the surrounding Mountain Moun-tain States. During 1976-77, the average salary for classroom teachers in Utah was only 3.7 below the average of the eight Mountain States, compared with a difference of 8.6 in 1967-68. When allowance is made for the face that Utah provides 5 of the employee's share of retirement costs, a special benefit not generally available in the other states, Utah's average salary actually is found to be slightly above the Mountain States average. This year salary schedules for classroom teachers in the Park City School District were boosted by an average of $785 or 8.' In addition to this general salary hike, most teachers in Park City School District who presently are not at the top of the salary scale also received annual experience increments averaging another $441 per year. Thus, the total average increase for teachers who have not reached the top step on the salary schedule this year was $1,196 or 12.19. The Foundation study shows that the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree in the Park City School District is $9,276. This sum rises with experience and added, academic training. A teacher with only a bachelor's degree could receive a maximum of $12,152 after 7 years. If the teacher obtained a master's, degree the .maximum could be as high as $15,443. These amounts are for approximately approxi-mately nine . months of actual service.' |