Teachers’ Salaries in England.

Evening Star, Issue 7387, 6 December 1887, Page 4

Teachers’ Salaries in England.

The Education Blue Book, just published, gives particulars of the salaries paid to corticated teachers in English schools. Beginning with principals, the average differs considerably in different denominations. Thus in Wesleyan schools it is LI7O, in Roman Catholic only LI 10, and in Board schools L 149. The proportion of those provided with a house, or rent-free, is much larger in the Church of England schools—about two in three —than in any other, and goes some way to make up the difference in the pay between them and the Wesleyans, who house only about one master in seven. The difference in the pay of assistant-masters is necessarily smaller, but in this division the School Boards stand first, the average salary being L9B, whilst that of the Wesleyan is only L 77, and the Church of England stands lowest at L 69. When we come to the mistresses, the School Boards arc again at the top, the average being LlO3, the Wesley ans coming next with LB4, and the Roman Catholics being again at the bottom with L 62. The proportion is much the same with the assistant-mistresses, who in the Board schools get on an average L 74, in the Church of England L 45, and in Wesleyan schools L 46. Passing from the average to the individual, there are twenty Board schoolmasters who get under LSO, aid forty-eight in Church of England schools { 170 who in Board schools get over L3lO a-year, thirty-two who exceed that sum in Wesleyan schools, and only twenty-three in

Church of England -schools. There are eighty-two assistant masters in the Board schools who get between LI 50 and L2OO. Three hundred and six Board school mistresses get L2OO or over, and thirty-nine under L4O. In the Church of England schools there are only fifteen who get over L2OO, and no less than 260 who receive under L4O. No assistant mistress in a Board school gets more than Ll5O, but nearly 1,000 get between LIOO and LISO.