except for 25 county superintendents in Mississippi and 4 in Idaho, where the State departments of education were unable to give salaries, for 122 probate judges serving ex officio as county superintendents in Texas, and for the rural superintendents in Connecticut. In Connecticut there are 35 supervising agents whose supervisory districts include 94 towns and whose salaries are paid directly from the State treasury. In regard to the salaries, Mr. Hine, secretary of the State board of education, says: Each supervisor must pay his own expenses from the specified salary which he receives. It follows that his net salary is dependent upon his territory and the number of schools and his method of traveling. His specified salary is not his actual salary. The net salaries of these men do not average more than $1,500 or $1,600. * * *. We have no desire to withhold the salaries of our agents, but it is impossible to give figures which will be correct and tell exactly or even approximately what the actual salaries are. The salaries for city superintendent were collected directly from the cities. It was intended to get the salary paid in every city of 2,500 population or over employing a superintendent; 2,134 are given in the tables under the heading "cities." This is 89 per cent of the total number. However, a higher per cent is actually included. A considerable number of New England towns and cities with a population somewhat greater than 2,500 are in union districts; the salaries paid, therefore, are not given in the tables under those of city superintendents. Included under the salaries paid city superintendents are amounts paid in 19 cities in Maryland, 24 cities in Florida, and 20 cities in Louisiana; these salaries are actually for supervising principals, as the city schools in these States are under the management of the county boards of education and the supervision of the county superintendents. Three of the salaries given for Delaware are also for supervising principals. The division made for this tabulation between "rural" and "city" superintendents in New England is more or less arbitrary. Under "city" are included the salaries paid to superintendents whose supervisory district is a single city or town. Under "rural" are included the salaries paid to superintendents of union supervisory districts made up of two or more towns. Rhode Island has only two union districts. It has 13 towns in which the so-called superintendents are members of the school boards receiving from $50 to $300; these are not included in the averages. Similar salaries paid in New Hampshire and Maine are not included. Table 1 is a summary giving the average salaries paid for rural superintendents and city superintendents in each of the States and for the United States as a whole. The table gives also the number of superintendents whose salaries are used in computing the averages. It will be noted that 3,087 rural superintendents received an average of $1,375, while 2,134 city superintendents received an average salary of $2,260. The average county superintendent's salary is 61 per cent of the average city superintendent's salary. In three States the average rural superintendent's salary is greater than the average city superintendent's salary; these are Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. As already stated, the Maryland city superintendents (with the exception of Baltimore city) are in reality supervising principals and are under the county superintendents. The New Jersey county superintendents all receive $3,000 a year, which makes the average paid higher than in any other State. Pennsylvania pays several county superintendents unusually high salaries, and the average paid to city superintendents is low on account of the large number of small cities which have superintendents or supervising principals. The greatest actual difference between the average city superintendent's salary and the average rural superintendent's salary is in Montana, with Wyoming second. The average city superintendent's salary in Montana is $1,681 greater than the average county superintendent's salary, while in Wyoming it is $1,654 greater. Wyoming's county superintendent's salary is unusually low, lower in fact. than in any other State. In Table 2 is given a list of the States, arranged in order, according to the average salary of the rural superintendents, and again according to the average salary paid tó city superintendents. TABLE 1.-Average salaries of superintendents. 1 Supervising principals. Florida, Louisiana, and Maryland city schools are under the county superintendents. TABLE 1.—Average salary of superintendents—Continued. 1 Does not include 13 members of school boards serving part time as superintendents. TABLE 2.—States arranged in descending order according to average salaries of superin State. tendents. Further discrepancy between the salaries of county and city superintendents is given in Table 3. It includes from one to six counties in 37 States selected at random from the counties which include one city employing a superintendent. The name of the county and of the city is given, the population of each, and the salaries paid the two superintendents. TABLE 3.-Salaries of county superintendents and of superintendents of cities in the same counties, with population of county and city. |