受限於時空背景，學醫與成為師範生是日治時期進入高等教育殿堂的唯一途徑，是以「教師」與「醫師」便成為社會菁英的重要骨幹，特別是具備「文官」身分的教師，往往深入鄉里，對地方的教育與文化有著極大的影響，現今社會對於教師的殷深期許與正面印象有不少是源於當時的社會氛圍，而教師們也往往以自己的職業為榮，兢兢業業地完成教育使命。 關於日治時期教師的先行研究似乎僅聚焦於教育層面的分析與公學校制度面的探究，對於教師本身最切身相關的薪資待遇反而乏人著墨。本文欲在基本的檔案史料中，整理出相關薪俸規則，並歸納出俸給發放之慣例，再結合當代文人的傳記式文學作品，呈現當時教師的薪資概況(包含與其他職業所得的比較)，評論其合理性，再用以解釋日治時期普遍存在的教師任教時間過短的社會現象，最後總結臺灣總督府在日治時期對公學校教師薪俸調整之作為。 ;Limited by the Japan’s colonial policies, being a student of medical school and teacher’s school were the “only” way to receive the higher education. In this way, teachers and doctors were considered to be the social elites in Japanese colonial period. Teachers with the status of an official,especially had huge influences,over local education and culture. In such situation, teachers were proud of their career and devoted themselves to education. Those images of teachers in Japanese colonial period leave the expectations and positive images of to the later society. Current studies seem to merely focus on the analyzing of education stages and researching of the system of public schools. The studies of the salary of teachers are waiting to be researched. With the exploration of basic historical archives, this study concludes the conventions of salary distribution after collecting the salary regulations. Combining the biographical literature during the Japan’s colonial period, this study indicates the general situation of salary of that time. This part also makes a comparation among salaries among different occupations. The study tries to make a comment over the rationality of this. Based on the comment, the study explains why teachers in Japan’s colonial period usually had a very short term of appointment which is a common existing social situation. At the last part, the study concludes how the Governor-General of Taiwan made adjustments over the salary of teachers in public schools.
