From The Independent, Elizabeth City N.C., Friday,
April 16, 1919
What We Pay Our
School Teachers. . . Pasquotank Pays Only $359.14 and That’s More Than Her
Neighbors Pay
Just $323 was the average salary paid white teachers, town
and country, in the elementary public schools of North Carolina in 1917-18.
It was only a little more than half the average in the
United States for the same year--$323 against $606.
This is not a record to be proud of in the richest state in
the South.
New Hanover leads the list with $580, and Durham follows
with $572 as average annual salaries for elementary white teachers in 1917-18.
Even our two most liberal counties are well below the
average of the country at large.
As for the 10 counties at the foot of the column—they paid
their white teachers less than $210 a year. The range was $211.19 in Tyrrell to
$169 in Watauga.
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