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APPENDIX
TEACHERS' SALARIES, SCOTLAND
The following tables show the changes that have taken place in the salaries of three representative classes of teachers, viz.: (i) non-graduate women, (ii) ordinary graduate men in primary schools, and (iii) honours graduate men. Scottish primary schools are staffed mainly by the first two of these groups: and the honours graduates fill the most important posts of responsibility in all kinds of secondary schools and in most of the advanced teaching in senior secondary schools. 2. Of the 35,000 teachers in Scotland, 23,000 are women. The women's scales are being assimilated to the men's; a process which will be complete in 1962.
3. In Scotland the "concertina" of the teachers' scales is not so compressed as in England, and after effect has been given to the Appleton increases for honours graduates there will be a reasonable gap between their remuneration and that of non-graduate teachers. It is also to be noted that the maxima of the Scottish non-graduate and honours graduate scales have not fallen so far behind the level of industrial earnings in Scotland as in England. But the scales of the ordinary graduate teachers are not far enough above the non-graduate scale and compare more unfavourably with the level of industrial earnings. There are 4,600 men and 6,300 women in this group. The women in it are getting some benefit out of the gradual introduction of equal pay and the men employed in secondary schools will get increases ranging up to £30 a year under the Appleton proposals. But the 2,000 graduate men employed in primary schools will get nothing. Any flat rate increase in teachers' salaries would worsen relatively the position of the ordinary graduate teachers and would give non-graduate women teachers more than would be warranted.
(i) Non-graduate Women (trained for three years in a Teachers' Training College)
MA
Per cent. increase
Average weekly earnings in
industry per cent.
increase over 1938
Salaries
£
on 1938
Minimum
Maximum
Minimum
Maximum
1938 (1)
145
210
April 1945
260
460
79
119
76
April 1948
260
480
79
129
84
April 1951
335
555
131
164
132
April 1954
407
627
181
199
187
October 1955
415
646
186
208
219 (est.)
Equal pay 1962 scale
towards which the
women's scale is
being assimilated...
495
760
241
262
The teacher reaches the maximum of the scale after 17 years at the age of 37 to 39.
(ii) Ordinary Graduate Men in primary schools (ordinary University degree course (3 years) followed by a year in a Teachers' Training College)
Average weekly earnings in
industry per cent. increase over 1938
Salaries
£
Per cent. increase
on 1938
Minimum
Maximum
Minimum
Maximum
1938 (1)
205
365
April 1945
345
590
68
62
76
April 1948
345
610
68
67
94
April 1951
435
725
112
99
172
April 1954
520
810
154
122
187
October 1955
520
810
154
122
219 (est.)
The teacher reaches the maximum of the scale after 17 years at the age of 38 to 40.
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