teacher {openintro}

Teacher Salaries in St. Louis, Michigan

Description

This dataset 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

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.

Source

Originally posted on SODA Developers (dev.socrata.com/data), removed in 2020.

Examples

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"
  )