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Show Alpine District Teachers Get Salary Increase 74 Classroom teachers with a bachelor's degree in the Alpine School District received a salary sal-ary schedule increase averaging averag-ing $845 or 9.90 this year. In addition to this general raise most teachers not at the top bracket of the salary scale also al-so received an experience increment in-crement averaging $437. Thus, the total average salary boost for such teachers amounted to $1,282 this year. These facts were brought out in an analysis of teachers salaries sal-aries prepared by the Utah Foundation, the private research re-search organization, and is based bas-ed on 7974-75 teacher salary schedules collected by the State Board of Education from the local school districts. Certified teachers with a bachelor's degree in the Alpine School District will receive a beginning salary of $7,167 this year with a maximum salary of $11,969 receivd after 11 years of service. Added amounts are paid to teachers with additional addition-al academic training. The 1974-75 1974-75 salary for a teacher with a master's degree, for example, is $7,467 at the beginning level, and $13,187 at the maximum step of the salary scale. The report notes that the amounts are for approximately nine months of service during the school year. Foundation analysis observe that a teacher with a bachelor degree who began a teaching career in the Alpine School District during 1969 would have received a starting salary of $5,510. This year, this same teacher with five years' exper- ience would be reciving a salary sal-ary of $9,030. Approximately $2,087 of this increase came from boosts in the overall salary sal-ary schedule with the remaining remain-ing $1,433 coming from annual increments for added teaching experience. In addition to these salary increases, Utah now provides the employee's share of teacher teach-er retirement costs. Formerly this expense was borne by the teacher. This adds another $429 to the take-home pay of a teacher tea-cher with five years experience in the Alpine School District. Thus the total effective salary increase over the five year period per-iod is equal to $3,949 or 71.7. Moreover, teachers who earned added college credits during this period might be entitled to an even greater increase. Despite the impressive salary sal-ary gains made by Utah teachers teach-ers during recent years, salary levels in Utah still lag some behind Mountain States averages, aver-ages, according to the Utah Foundation study. When an adjustment ad-justment is made for the special spec-ial retirement costs borne by the State, the effective average salary in Utah last year was about 3.1 below the average aver-age of the eight Mountain States. By comparison, in 1967-69 1967-69 the average salary paid to classroom teachers in Utah was about 5.0 below the Mountain States average. |
