New Pay Scale For Teachers On Tap
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
January 10, 1954
January 1954
Middletown, Ohio
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First Increases Brought By New Two-Mill Tax Levy To Be Paid January 21 - Middletown’s 244 public school teachers will rake in the fruits of the new two-mill tax levy on Jan. 21, their first 1954 pay day. The tax was passed by local voters in November to increase the salaries of school personnel. Pay boosts will range from a low of $40 to a top jump of $1,220. More than half the teachers now will be making more money than the $4,500 maximum the old scale allowed. The median salary increase is $760. Forty-four of the teachers received more than $900 boosts, while 25 did not receive a raise of more than $500. Two of the instructors did not even go up $100. Jumps greater than $1,000 went to seven teachers. The new salary schedule, like the old one, is based on education and on teaching experience...
First Increases Brought By New Two-Mill Tax Levy To Be Paid January 21 - Middletown’s 244 public school teachers will rake in the fruits of the new two-mill tax levy on Jan. 21, their first 1954 pay day. The tax was passed by local voters in November to increase the salaries of school personnel. Pay boosts will range from a low of $40 to a top jump of $1,220. More than half the teachers now will be making more money than the $4,500 maximum the old scale allowed. The median salary increase is $760. Forty-four of the teachers received more than $900 boosts, while 25 did not receive a raise of more than $500. Two of the instructors did not even go up $100. Jumps greater than $1,000 went to seven teachers. The new salary schedule, like the old one, is based on education and on teaching experience...
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