=Salary.= A good nurse should command a good salary—she is worth it. There is a tendency to underpay nurses even at the present day, because of the tradition handed down from the Middle Ages, that nursing service should be given largely as a matter of love or charity. A woman who gives up her whole time to district nursing, doing highly specialized work, should at the very least receive a living wage. Associations are often asked to supply nurses at a salary of forty or fifty dollars a month, and surprise and indignation have been expressed because such a woman was not forthcoming. Salaries should be large enough to attract and retain efficient women; a small salary does not attract desirable applicants, as a rule, and this limits the field of selection. Large sums are appropriated for hospitals, sanatoriums, dispensaries, and physicians’ services, but retrenchment takes place when it comes to the nurse. Her work seems to be the one point where economy prevails. In Baltimore, the staff nurses are paid seventy-five dollars a month, and this is the very least that any woman should receive. A small town or country community would doubtless have to pay more than this, especially if it looks to the city for an experienced nurse. The reason is simple enough—other things being equal and the character of work the same, one would hardly expect a nurse to prefer an unknown locality, away from home and friends, unless some extra inducement were offered. A nurse might be willing to organize work in a small city, at a low salary, for the sake of the experience. In that case, it is the experience which offers the inducement. This once gained, however, she would shortly be in a position to demand more salary or seek a wider field of service. =Increase of Salary.= The question constantly arises whether or not it is well to increase the salary of the staff nurse from year to year. If she enters the work at seventy-five dollars a month for the first year, is it well to increase this to eighty dollars a month for the second year, eighty-five dollars the third, and so on till a definite maximum has been reached? To this question there are two answers.