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C. H. Kobison finds that the prevailing rate of pay received 

 by desirable students in agricultural colleges immediately after 

 graduation is $1,200.* 



Such a supervisor must at the present time command a salary 

 at least as high as, if not higher than, the average male teacher 

 in ordinary high school work. Graduates of classical colleges 

 are much more abundant and available for teaching in second- 

 ary schools than are men qualified to teach agriculture. 



The demands upon the teacher who is to serve as a supervisor 

 of part-time agricultural work are so much more exacting than 

 the demands upon the instructor in old-line training, that men 

 possessing the requisite qualifications of personality and execu- 

 tive ability are at a premium. 2 



The salaries now paid to special teachers of agriculture of 

 secondary grade are likewise significant. Mr. Eobison presents 

 a table (No. 41) giving the salaries of 33 agriculturists en- 

 gaging in school work in the past two years. Of these, the first 

 10 employed as assistants received less than $850; 23 received 

 $900 or more; 21 more than $1,000; and 16 more than $1,200. 



The salaries now commanded by teachers giving special in- 

 struction in agriculture in public high schools and other public 

 secondary schools would seem to indicate that the salary of the 

 supervisor described herein must be not less than $1,000, and 

 must probably be more than that amount per annum, if com- 

 petent men are to be secured for the work. 



1 In a thesis prepared for a doctor's degree at Columbia University, Mr. Robison gives a 

 list of 179 men graduating from agricultural colleges in the school year 1907-08. This list 

 shows that the salaries of over four-fifths of these men were rather evenly scattered between 

 $750 and $1,200. The 24 higher-degree men received an average of $1,208.33, the prevailing 

 rate being $1,200. The general average of salaries for the 1907 group was $947.50, and for the 

 1908 group $921.50. The lowest salary received was $450, and the highest $1,700. 



The significance of the above statistics lies in these three considerations: (1) that the salaries 

 tabulated were commanded practically on graduation day, and hence do not represent the 

 added compensation which efficiency born of experience brings; (2) that the salaries tabulated 

 include, possibly to an extent of more than a majority of the cases, the earnings after gradua- 

 tion of men not capable of acting as supervisors of agricultural training; (3) that the salaries 

 were not confined to men entering educational work. 



2 The report of the National Educational Association, through its committee on salaries, 

 tenures and pensions of public school teachers in the United States (1905), gives the average 

 annual salary of male teachers other than principals in the secondary schools of Massachusetts 

 outside of Boston as $1,269; of male teachers and principals, $1,470; of male principals, 

 $2,261. 



