Note 9 — Chapter LII · VLADIVOSTOCK.

I learnt something of Russian teachers’ salaries. At the institute the directress received £150 per annum; two teachers £100 each; an assistant £60; linen custodian £25; housekeeper £30. They had 42 scholars; and in the building they employed 8 male and female servants, at a salary of £1 per month each. Beside this home staff there were 15 outside teachers, amongst whom the priest received £70 a year. At the boys’ gymnasium the teacher of English received £7 10s. per month, and the teacher of German £25; or, to put it in another way, teachers of languages and of the four higher classes received 10s. a lesson, and those of the lower three classes 6s. The teachers elect from their own number an inspector, who receives an additional £60 per annum and a house rent free. Further, the Government appoints a director, at a salary of £250 per annum. All teachers in Siberia appointed by the Government receive an increase of 25 per cent. of their salary every five years; and after ten years’ service have an annual pension of half their salary.