Estimated average annual salary of instructional staff in publicelementary and secondary schools and average annual earnings offull-time employees in all industries: 1929-30 to 1994-95

Table 80.

Estimated average annual salary of instructional staff\1\ in publicelementary and secondary schools and average annual earnings offull-time employees in all industries: 1929-30 to 1994-95

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             |      Current dollars           |           Constant 1994-95 dollars\2\
             |________________________________|____________________________________________________
             |  Average    |Earnings per full-|  Average    |Earnings per full-| Ratio of instruc-
 School year |  salary of  |  time employee   |  salary of  |  time employee   |tional staff salary
             |instructional|working for wages |instructional|working for wages |to earnings for all
             |    staff    |   or salary\3\   |    staff    |   or salary\3\   |full-time employees
_____________|_____________|__________________|_____________|__________________|___________________
      1      |      2      |    3             |      4      |        5         |         6
_____________|_____________|__________________|_____________|__________________|___________________
1929-30 .....|      $1,420 |           $1,386 |     $12,478 |          $12,179 |              1.02
1931-32 .....|       1,417 |            1,198 |      14,783 |           12,498 |              1.18
1933-34 .....|       1,227 |            1,070 |      13,937 |           12,153 |              1.15
1935-36 .....|       1,283 |            1,160 |      14,043 |           12,696 |              1.11
1937-38 .....|       1,374 |            1,224 |      14,427 |           12,852 |              1.12
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1939-40 .....|       1,441 |            1,282 |      15,509 |           13,798 |              1.12
1941-42 .....|       1,507 |            1,576 |      14,537 |           15,203 |              0.96
1943-44 .....|       1,728 |            2,030 |      14,916 |           17,522 |              0.85
1945-46 .....|       1,995 |            2,272 |      16,449 |           18,733 |              0.88
1947-48 .....|       2,639 |            2,692 |      17,035 |           17,378 |              0.98
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1949-50 .....|       3,010 |            2,930 |      19,116 |           18,608 |              1.03
1951-52 .....|       3,450 |            3,322 |      19,743 |           19,011 |              1.04
1953-54 .....|       3,825 |            3,628 |      21,393 |           20,292 |              1.05
1955-56 .....|       4,156 |            3,924 |      23,252 |           21,954 |              1.06
1957-58 .....|       4,702 |            4,276 |      24,764 |           22,521 |              1.10
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1959-60 .....|       5,174 |            4,632 |      26,485 |           23,711 |              1.12
1961-62 .....|       5,700 |            4,928 |      28,522 |           24,659 |              1.16
1963-64 .....|       6,240 |            5,373 |      30,431 |           26,203 |              1.16
1965-66 .....|       6,935 |            5,838 |      32,690 |           27,519 |              1.19
1967-68 .....|       7,630 |            6,444 |      33,745 |           28,500 |              1.18
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1969-70 .....|       9,047 |            7,334 |      36,022 |           29,202 |              1.23
1970-71 .....|       9,698 |            7,815 |      36,719 |           29,589 |              1.24
1971-72 .....|      10,213 |            8,334 |      37,330 |           30,462 |              1.23
1972-73 .....|      10,634 |            8,858 |      37,363 |           31,123 |              1.20
1973-74 .....|      11,254 |            9,647 |      36,304 |           31,120 |              1.17
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1974-75 .....|      12,167 |           10,420 |      35,334 |           30,260 |              1.17
1975-76 .....|      13,124 |           11,218 |      35,594 |           30,424 |              1.17
1976-77 .....|      13,840 |           11,991 |      35,467 |           30,729 |              1.15
1977-78 .....|      14,698 |           12,829 |      35,296 |           30,807 |              1.15
1978-79 .....|      15,764 |           13,851 |      34,614 |           30,413 |              1.14
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1979-80 .....|      16,715 |           15,095 |      32,384 |           29,244 |              1.11
1980-81 .....|      18,404 |           16,495 |      31,955 |           28,640 |              1.12
1981-82 .....|      20,327 |           17,818 |      32,488 |           28,478 |              1.14
1982-83 .....|      21,641 |           18,883 |      33,163 |           28,936 |              1.15
1983-84 .....|      23,005 |           19,749 |      33,995 |           29,184 |              1.16
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1984-85 .....|      24,666 |           20,626 |      35,077 |           29,332 |              1.20
1985-86 .....|      26,362 |           21,518 |      36,438 |           29,742 |              1.23
1986-87 .....|      27,706 |           22,432 |      37,464 |           30,332 |              1.24
1987-88 .....|      29,219 |           23,467 |      37,938 |           30,469 |              1.25
1988-89 .....|      30,850 |           24,502 |      38,287 |           30,408 |              1.26
             |             |                  |             |                  |
1989-90 .....|      32,638 |           25,555 |      38,661 |           30,271 |              1.28
1990-91 .....|      34,412 |           26,668 |      38,650 |           29,952 |              1.29
1991-92 .....|      35,550 |           27,829 |      38,688 |           30,286 |              1.28
1992-93 .....|      36,454 |           28,937 |      38,470 |           30,537 |              1.26
1993-94 .....|      37,383 |              --- |      38,455 |              --- |               ---
1994-95 .....|      38,415 |              --- |      38,415 |              --- |               ---
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\1\Includes supervisors, principals, classroom teachers, and other instructional staff.
\2\Based on the Consumer Price Index prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
\3\Calendar-year data from the U.S. Department of Commerce have been converted to a school-year basis by averaging the two appropriate calendar years in each case.
---Data not available.

NOTE.--Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems, and unpublished data; National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics, 1994-95, (Copyright @ 1995 by the National Education Association. All rights reserved.); and unpublished data; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Survey of Current Business, July and August issues. (This table was prepared May 1995.)

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