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CHAPTER II.

STATE AND COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS AND RURAL SCHOOL TEACHERS.

The salary stated for each State superintendent of public instruction, or the equivalent officer, is the sum actually paid for his services; but there are other conditions of employment which do not appear in the table below. For example, a few of the superintendents must pay from their salaries the expense of official travel. A few others have certain advantages which are equivalent to an addition to their incomes. It has been found impracticable to make a definite statement of all these details, and only the salaries specified in the laws are stated.

Less than half of the States are represented in the table relating to county superintendents, but they indicate sufficiently the range of salaries paid for this service. A considerable number of the States do not provide for county superintendents.

It is obviously impracticable to include a statement of the salary of every rural teacher. Even if it were practicable, no important end would be reached. This chapter, therefore, reports such salaries only in typical counties or localities in each State. The length of the school term is stated in every case, for without that information a statement. of the salary paid would usually mean very little. City teachers as a rule make no effort to earn money during their vacation of eight or ten weeks, but many of the teachers in the country are employed during only half the year or even less. They must, therefore, take up other employment, for their salaries run only while they teach. The time actually employed must be shown, therefore, in order that the significance of the salary may be understood.

The reports which came to us do not show the compensation of each individual in rural schools with two or more teachers, but only the amount paid to the teachers of each school. Our tables, therefore, show the average salary in those cases.

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TABLE 35.— Yearly salaries of State superintendents of public instruction.

1 $1,000 of this amount received as secretary and executive agent to State school board.
2 Superintendent of public instruction, $2,400; commissioner of education, $5,000.
3 $1,500 of this amount received as special State inspector and examiner.

TABLE 36.—Number and yearly salaries of county school superintendents in certain States.

TABLE 36.-Number and yearly salaries of county school superintendents in certain States Continued.

TABLE 36.—Number and yearly salaries of county school superintendents in certain States-Continued.