1. On West Virginia Teachers Starting salary - $26, 704 Average salary - $38,284 Number of Teachers – 19,791 Number of students – 279,053

2. Teacher Salaries In New York Starting Teachers salaries with a bachelor’s degree - $47,124 Starting Teachers salaries with a bachelor’s degree and 36 credits in additional training - $51,425 Difference between salaries - $4,301

3. Let’s do some math $26,704 – Starting Salary in West Virginia Divided by $47,124 – Starting Salary in New York =.5667 $4301 – difference in salaries in NY X.5667 = $2437.26 – difference in salaries averaged for West Virginia

4. Teacher’s Salaries for Cabell County There are 842 teachers in Cabell County, if we want gender divided classrooms then we would argue for specialized teachers. Here is the difference in cost between having non- specialized teachers and having specialized teachers. 842 teachers X $26704 (non-specialized salary) = $22,484,768 842 teachers X $29,141 (specialized salary) = $24,536,722 Difference - $2,051,954

5. Teacher Salaries In New York Average Teachers salaries with a bachelor’s degree - $55,936 Starting Teachers salaries with a bachelor’s degree and 36 credits in additional training - $70,259 Difference between salaries - $14,232

6. Let’s do some math $38,284 – average Salary in West Virginia Divided by $55,936 – average Salary in New York =.68 $14,323 – difference in salaries in NY X.68 = $9,803.02 – difference in salaries averaged for West Virginia

7. Teacher’s Salaries for Cabell County There are 842 teachers in Cabell County, if we want gender divided classrooms then we would argue for specialized teachers. Here is the difference in cost between having non- specialized teachers and having specialized teachers. 842 teachers X $38,284 (non-specialized salary) = $32,235,128 842 teachers X $48,087 (specialized salary) = $40,489,254 Difference - $8,254,126