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an advance all along the line, not the mere 

 bringing of very low salaries up to a higher 

 standard, nor the addition of certain high- 

 priced positions. 



THE CHANGE IN SALARIES OF TEACHERS OF INTEE- 

 MEDIATE GRADES FROM 1907-08 TO 1912-13 



All Institutions Combined; Coarser Grouping 



TABLE VII 

 THE CHANGE IN SALARIES OF FULL PROFESSORS 



FROM 1907-08 TO 1912-13 

 All Institutions Combined; Coarse Grouping 



The salaries of full professors in these 

 institutions have been increased on the 

 average by about $225, the increase being 

 about the same for institution groups pay- 

 ing salaries, in 1907-08, of $1,200, $1,400, 

 $1,600, $1,800, $2,200, $2,700 or $3,000. 

 The institution groups paying average 

 salaries (in 1907-08) of $3,500 and $3,750 

 show smaller gains, about $125; Columbia 

 and Harvard show larger, about $350. 

 The low-salaried institutions have thus in- 

 creased their professors' salaries by a per- 

 centage far greater than that of the high- 

 salaried institutions. The general change 

 is shown in Table VII. which gives the 

 relative frequencies of each salary amount 

 in steps of $500 in 1907-08 and 1912-13 

 for all of the institutions combined. The 

 decrease in the lower salaries is clearly 

 shown, the professorial staff having been 

 moved up by about $200 all along the 

 salary scale. 



From the results of this new examina- 

 tion of the financial status of college teach- 

 ers, it will be seen that the situation, as 

 compared with that of five years ago, is 

 encouraging. In spite of a variability of 

 salaries in the same institutions and of a 

 financial overlapping of academic grades, 

 there is coming to be a kind of general 

 agreement upon a salary for a college in- 

 structor that is rather better than that of 

 the man who teaches in a high school. 

 Junior professors in the smaller colleges 

 receive salaries almost equal to those of 

 instructors in the large universities. Of 

 1,500 representative full professors one 

 fourth receive $2,250 or less, one fourth 

 $3,750 or more, and one tenth $5,000 or 

 more, the median salary of all being $3,000. 

 All salaries have increased during the last 

 five years — those of instructors have risen 

 by about $80, those of junior professors 

 show a gain of from $120 to $226, those of 

 full professors show an increase of from 

 $125 in the smaller institutions to $350 in 

 the largest. Teachers who by general 

 agreement are considered distinguished 

 receive from $800 to $2,400 more than their 

 colleagues of the same age. 



