Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
UNCLE SAM,EMPL PL0YER
Interesting Figures in a Cen
sus Bulletin.
SIZE OF HIS FORCE
TOTAL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
UNDER THE GOVERNMENT.
How They Are Distributed in the De-
partments-Those in the Dis
trict and Elsewhere.

In a bulletin of 239 pages the census
bureau today issued the first compilation
| that has ever been made under government
| auspices of statistics relating to ehf ex-
ecutive civil service of the United States.
|, This bulletin was prepared for the purpose
of giving to the public the figures which
show the number of employees in the So
called classified service, their sex, nativity
and character of employment. Each ex-
ecutive department Is treated under spe-
cial subhead and the information given is
illustrated by seventy-three statistical
tables and an appendix. The statistics are
compiled from reports made in compliance
with the executive order of March 81, 1908,
by which the heads of the executive depart
ments were directed to supply the Secretary
of the Interior for use in the official reg
lister, the date of employment of each Of
ficer and employee; his age, length of serv-
Ice and information to whether or not
the position held by him is subject to ap-
pointment by the President or is excepted
competitive, unclassified, temporary or SUBJ
1ect to contract. AS this is the first at
tempt that has ever been made to classify
and tabuate facts of this character Di-
rector North of the census bureau states
that some inconsistencies may appear upon
careful analysis of the figures for the
different departments. Accurate nforma-
ton can be obtained, he states only when
bulletins of this character are compiled at
stated periods. He has recommended, there
fore, that the census bureau be authorized
to prepare such publications at periods of
from two, four or six years.
Number on July 1, 1908.
Briefly stated the bulletin presents the
statistics for the persons employed in the
executive civil service on July l. 1903. For
this purpose the executive civil service is
construed to comprise all persons in the
employ of the executive branches OF the
federal government. There were 150 3S3
employees included in the report. OF this
number 25.6I5 are employed on work in the
District of Columbia: 1877 515 of these are
men. of whom 1873 are in the District
1892 are women. of whom 6.SS2 are at
work in this city; 135, ,575 are native-born
citizens of the United States. and of this
number 23.S33 are in the departmental sery-
ice in washington: the foreign-born clerks
number 4.SOS. and 1,S42 of these are en-
ployed in the District: S29 per cent are
protected by civil service rules and III per
singular coincidence these figures show that
of the entire number of government en-
pioyes included in the list III per cent
employed at work in the District of Co
lumbia, while the remaining $40 per cent
are scattered throughout the country-the
District bearing exactly the same relation
to the entire service in point of numbers
the unclassified service does to the classi-
fled. In the consideration of these figures
the compilers of the bulletin request that
note should be made of the fact that there
are 100 1856 employees of the government, Of
whom 1875 are at work in the District, who
have not been included in the report. The
combina ton of these figures gives the total
number of persons the government employs
in the executive departments as 2T1 ,169. In
the number of persons employed by the
government who are not included in this
bulletin the statement is made that all
but 1910 are exempt from examination
q q "A
employees not considered include 10,S55 en-
ployes of the non-free delivery post offices.
"a, 1856 postmasters and 1910 employees at
navy yards and stations. The remaining
IL 595 distributed through the smaller
bureaus and branches of the service.
Character of Appointments, &c.
Returning again to the employees who are
included in the statistics given in the book,
the following will show the character
of appointments. character of work, ages,
period of service and salaries, the second
figures referring to the clerks in the District
of Columbia only, the first figures being the
totals:
Character of appointment, presidential
total, 1,05O in the District of Columbia, 81;
excepted, 6,65O, 1850; examination, 7S 159,
9,261; classification or extension, 3S, 264
II, ,234; preference, AS 173; temporary, $685.
1873: unclassified, 24.223 3,313; classification
pending, 326; noncompet1tiye, 296, II; not
reported, Al, 5.
Character of work, clerical 1O2, ,431 S,s77;
professional, technical and scientific, $685.
1919; executive, 1,677, 55S; mechanical
7,1S1, 2,94S subclerical and laborers, 26. $685.
$3.50; miscellaneous, 5,517, 1,107
Age, less than 20 years, 3,422, 34S; 20 to 90
years, 39,21s. 6,745; 80 to 80 years, 46,I62
6079; 40 to 40 years, 3O,394, 5,33S;
so to 80 years, 16,91s, 1904; 60 to SO years.
S.779, 1915; 70 to 20 years, 1867, 466; so
years and over, 1O1, 43; age not reported,
2,972, 1913.
Period of service-Less than year. 3d.
462, 2,674; to years, 52, 1853, 1905; to
8 years, 25,12S, 1852; 10 to 10 years, 27,-
700, 1894; 20 to 30 years, 6,940, 2,747; 80 to
80 years, 2,610, 1852; 40 years and over,
1928, 1853; period of service not reported,
402, 81.
Salary--Less than s72O, 5O,OO2, 6,431;
$72O, but less than $40, 13,043, 2,O33;
$40, but less than 5000, S,927, 491; 5000,
but less than $1,000, 1057S, 1,742; 81, 900,
but less than 81 200, 1885, 2,13O; $1,000,
but less than 81 400. 1924, 5,1o; N.4oo.
but less than $1,000, 8,16S, 3,084; 81, 600,
but less than $500, 2,275, 1,194; $500.
but less than $1,000, 1912 1,O2O; $4,000.
but less than $1,000, 1876 764; $4,000 and
over, $50, 459; piecework, 1887, 1,133;
without salary. 1899. 5; salary not re-
ported, 1SS. 1.
Distribution as to Departments.