Though A Change is Gonna Come still resonates to this day (as evidenced by Obama's victory speech), it is clearly a song of its time and circumstances. While touring in North Carolina in 1963, Cooke met with and spoke to students involved in the sit-in movement in the South.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released salary information that indicated the salary levels of elementary, middle school, and secondary teachers across Pennsylvania. As of May 2010, all three earned average salaries between $53,000 per year and $59,000 per year. Substitute teachers earn a prorated salary based on the salaries paid to full-time teachers by a district. The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) reported that substitutes in Pennsylvania earned daily wages ranging from $70 to $155 during the 2010-2011 school year.
Normal Minimum Wage in Pennsylvania. For most employees, the minimum wage in PA was increased in 2009 to $7.25 an hour. No further increases are scheduled for the minimum wage in Pennsylvania at this time.Minimum wage mployees working more than 40 hours in a week are required to be paid overtime wages consisting of one and a half times the normal minimum wage, or $11.88.mployees who receive at least $30 per month in tips are not required to be given the same minimum wage in PA as non-tipped employees. Instead, a tipped employee may make just $2.83 an hour, as long as tips bring his or her wages up to the federal minimum wage level.