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houses or apartments are added to the 

 salaries of the members of the instructing 

 staff. The houses at the University of 

 Virginia and the suites of rooms at some 

 of the colleges of the University of To- 

 ronto are a considerable addition to the 

 stated salary, and even when, as at Wash- 

 ington and Lee University, a charge is 

 made for the houses allotted to professors, 

 the charge, in view of the character of the 

 residence, is a nominal one. 



Taking the salaries paid to teachers as 

 a basis of classification of American and 

 Canadian degree-giving institutions, we 

 have the following table: 



TABLE I 



Institutions Classified ly Expenditure for Teach- 

 ers' Salaries 



Figures Indicating 

 Range of Expendi- 



Number of ture for Teachers' 



Institutions Salaries 



92 $ 5,000-$10,000 



91 10,000- 15,000 



48 15,000- 20,000 



29 20,000- 25,000 



19 , 25,000- 30,000 



18 30,000- 35,000 



17 35,000- 40,000 



17 40,000- 45,000 



7 45,000- 50,000 



6 50,000- 55,000 



7 55,000- 60,000 



8 60,000- 65,000 

 8 65,000- 70,000 

 4 70,000- 75,000 

 2 75,000- 80,000 

 4 80,000- 85,000 



2 85,000- 90,000 



1 90,000- 95,000 



3 95,000-100,000 



2 100,000-105,000 

 2 105,000-110,000 



4 110,000-115,000 

 2 115,000-120,000 



4 120,000-125,000 

 8 125,000-150,000 

 2 150,000-175,000 



5 175,000-200,000 

 S' 200,000-225,000 



'Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern Uni- 

 versity, New York University. 



University of Chicago 

 Harvard University 

 Columbia University 



225,000-250,000 



250,000-300,000 



300,000-400,000 



400,000-500,000 



500,000-600,000 



$ 699,000 



841,000 



1,145,000 



It wUl be seen from the table that five 

 ninths of the institutions making reports 

 have an instructional pay-roll of less than 

 twenty thousand dollars. Failure to re- 

 port this item is very common among the 

 smaller institutions. Almost all the large 

 institutions, on the other hand, send in this 

 report. It is, therefore, safe to say that if 

 the figures were obtainable in every ease, 

 two thirds of the degree-granting institu- 

 tions of the United States and of Canada 

 would show a budget for teachers' salaries 

 of less than twenty thousand dollars. 

 Seven ninths of the institutions making re- 

 ports spend less than fifty thousand dol- 

 lars on instructional salaries. If the list 

 were complete, institutions of this char- 

 acter would number six sevenths of those 

 granting degrees. 



The average salary of a professor is re- 

 ported in many more eases by the college 

 authorities than is the college's total 

 annual expenditure in professional and 

 other instructing salaries. From a study 

 of these figures it appears that one third 

 of the degree-granting institutions pay on 

 an average less than a thousand dollars a 

 year to their full professors; indeed, in 



•McGill University, University of Missouri, 

 University of Nebraska, Ohio State University 

 (Columbus). 



* University of Minnesota. 



"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prince- 

 ton University, University of Toronto, Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. 



' University of California, University of Penn- 

 sylvania, University of Wisconsin, University of 

 Illinois. 



' Cornell University, Yale University, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. 



