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Article: Teachers' Salaries Rose 2.7 Percent; Average Is $36,744; Union Says Increase Trailed Rate of Inflation
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- The Washington Post
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- November 22, 1995
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Teachers' salaries rose an average of 2.7 percent last school
year, a rate just behind inflation, a teachers' union said yesterday.
The average teacher salary nationwide from fall 1994 to summer
1995 was $36,744, according to the American Federation of Teachers.
Inflation for this year, through August, was running at 2.8 percent.
It was 2.7 percent in 1994.
"The salary gains of the 1980s could quickly be lost if the trend
continues," said Edward J. McElroy, secretary-treasurer of the
850,000-member union.
The AFT's annual survey of federal and state departments of ...