# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S113
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Seminaries and Colleges o 118

Adjustment of Professors’ Salaries -
(Memorial 805) :

Wuereas, The cost of living in the various sections. of our.,
country .where we maintain schools of higher learning differs

greatly, official tabulations of our Federal Government showitig,

for example, that living costs in some areas where our schools are
located are 15-per cent higher than in others;. and

Wuereas, Such differences in living costs are not now taken —
into account in establishing the salaries paid to our professors, .
inasmuch as. the professors at all our schools are salaried on the 7
same general basis; and

’ Wuereas,. The: present system is. manifestly inequitable, . creat- |
ing a situation in which the professors at our schools in the higher

‘living cost areas actually receive a lower salary than those at other
schools, ‘since the purchasing power of the. dollar ' ‘is lower; and

Wuereas, This situation -has. imposed and ‘is: imposing a hard-

. ship upon those of our professors teaching at our schools in the: '

higher living cost areas; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the Board of Control of Concordia Col-
legiate Institute, Bronxville, respectfully petition: Synod to adjust
the salary scale of professors at all our schools on the basis of the
living cost scale obtaining in the various areas in which our schools
" are located and ‘to graduate all professors’ salaries upward accord-
ing to the percentage levels established by Government tables of.

living cost ratios. BoaRD- oF ContRoL

CoNncoRDIA ConLEcraTe INSTITUTE
Louis S. Wacner, Secretary

ACTION

It was resolved, upon the. recommendation of Committee 1,
that the regulations of the Synodical Handbook. (1937, page 68)
concerning the salary of professors be changed to read as follows
‘(under point “4’”): ;

A. The basic. salary. of married professors at our institutions:
in North America shall be as follows: for professors at St. Louis
$2,700; for professors at Springfield. $2, 400;, for professors at all
. Other institutions $2,100.

B. All professors shall receive an increment of $60 a year for
every dependent child under the age of 18 years, and $60 for every
- 5 years of service in the Church after graduation, until a maximum

‘ig reached: at St. Louis, of $3,000; at Springfield, of $2, 700; at all
other institutions of Synod, of $2,400.
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