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Show Salary Schedules Raised bjr Average of 8.5 Percent Salary schedules for teachers teach-ers with a bachelor's degree in the Park City School District were raised by an average of $1,221, or 8.5 this year. In addition, most of the teachers not at the top step of the salary scale also received an annual experience experi-ence increment averaging another $604. Thus, the total increase for a teacher who had not reached the top step in the salary schedule averaged $1,825, or 12.7 during Xh6 1982-83 school year. These were some of the u. facts reported by Utah Foundation, the private research re-search organization, in their regular annual analysis of teacher salaries in Utah. The beginning salary for a teacher in the Park City School District this year is $13,646. The salary schedule sche-dule includes regular increases in-creases for experience and added academic training. Thus, experienced teachers with a master's degree will receive up to $23,949 per year in the Park City School District during the 1982-83 year. For the state as a whole, the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree will average $13,682, with beginning be-ginning salaries ranging from $12,659 in the Ogden School District to $16,510 in the Emery School District. The average maximum salary sal-ary for a teacher in Utah with a master's degree this year is $23,854, or about 74 more than the beginning salary for a teacher with only a bachelor's degree. Foundation analysts explain that all of the annual salaries for teachers listed above are for approximately 180-185 teaching days or about nine months of actual service. Teachers with special duties and those who teach summer classes receive added compensation. comp-ensation. In addition to the salary increases provided, several Utah school districts began paying all or a portion of the 3.95 retirement contribution contribu-tion formerly paid' by the employee this year. Millard and the Washington School Districts paid the entire 3.95 in behalf of the employee while Ogden School District paid 2.6 of the employee share. . In effect, this action constituted an additional salary increase in those districts, as it raised their final take-home pay. According to the Foundation Founda-tion study, a teacher who began teaching in the Park City School District during the 1977-78 school year received a starting salary of $9,276. Today, that same teacher with five years of experience would receive $16,512. This represents an increase of $7,236, or 78.0 over five year period. Approximately $5,288 of that increase represents changes in the salary schedule and $1948 represents annual experience increments. By comparison, the official consumer con-sumer price index rose by 59 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 acquired added academic training, he or she would have received an even greater salary boost during the period. |