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teacher: Teacher Salaries in St. Louis, Michigan

Description

This data set contains teacher salaries from 2009-2010 for 71 teachers employed by the St. Louis Public School in Michigan, as well as several covariates.

Usage

data(teacher)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 71 observations on the following 8 variables.
id
Identification code for each teacher, assigned randomly.
degree
Highest educational degree attained: BA (bachelor's degree) or MA (master's degree).
fte
Full-time enrollement status: full-time 1 or part-time 0.5.
years
Number of years employed by the school district.
base
Base annual salary, in dollars.
fica
Amount paid into Social Security and Medicare per year through the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA), in dollars.
retirement
Amount paid into the retirement fund of the teacher per year, in dollars.
total
Total annual salary of the teacher, resulting from the sum of base salary + fica + retirement, in dollars.

Source

Posted on opendata.socrata.com by Jeff Kowalski. Original source: http://stlouis.edzone.net

References

OpenIntro, openintro.org

Examples

Run this code
data(teacher)
boxplot(base ~ degree, teacher)

plot(base ~ years, teacher, pch = 16)
cond1 <- teacher$degree == "MA"
points(teacher$years[cond1], teacher$base[cond1],
       pch = 16, col = "orange")

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