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

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 enrollment 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.

Examples

Run this code


library(ggplot2)

# Salary and education level
ggplot(teacher, aes(x = degree, y = base)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  labs(
    x = "Highest educational degree attained",
    y = "Base annual salary, in $",
    color = "Degree",
    title = "Salary and education level"
  )

# Salary and years of employment
ggplot(teacher, aes(x = years, y = base, color = degree)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(
    x = "Number of years employed by the school district",
    y = "Base annual salary, in $",
    color = "Degree",
    title = "Salary and years of employment"
  )

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