The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-01-20
ENUMERATORS RATES OF PAY
Census Director Durand Establishes
a Classification of the Compen-
satiOn of Census Takers.

SatiOn Of Census Takers.
The varying wage scales in different
parts of the country and the differences
in the nature and extent of the local
difficulties confronting the enumerators
in the larger geographical divisions of
the United States have influenced and
guided United States Census Director
Durand in the adoption of classified
ton of enumerators' rates of compen-
sation, within the limits prescribed by
the United States Census law enacted
by Congress.
The different classes of rates will be
so applied that in general the average
enumerator will earn substantially the
same actual amount in one district as in
another, even though the population
may be much sparser in one than in the
other, with other conditions also differ
ent. Regard is paid to the fact that
prevailing wages and salaries are higher
in some parts of the country than in
others, but, aside from this, the
Director S aim is to adjust the rates so
as to make the earnings of enumerators
substantially uniform. w here per
capita rates would not give sufficient
pay, the per diem rates are prescribed.
The rates in general will be so adjusted
as to give slightly higher average
amount to the enumerators than they
received in 1900.
Per diem rates of pay will be paid to
the census enumerators in the sparsely
settled rural districts of Arizona, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Texas, Utah, Wyoming and Washing
ton.
The rate will range from S. to So per
day for the enumeration of the rural
areas outside of cities and towns. Six
dollars is the highest rate authorized by
law.
The Director realizes that in many
districts of the far West it will be i'm
possible to secure competent men to act
as enumerators at a rate of compensa-
ton less than that being paid for or
binary classes of work in the same
area. Were enumerators in such dis
tricts paid only on the per capita basis,
their compensation would be unreason-
ably low
The enumeratOrs in the thinly inhab-
tied country sections of North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas
also will be compensated on per diem
basis. Certain difficult or sparsely set
tied enumeration districts in other
states will be included among those to
which the per diem rates will apply, as
the conditions of the enumerator could
not make fair earnings at any Of the
FER capita rates established.
This announcement was made by
Census Director Durand in order to
counterfeit the deterrent effect upon
applications for enumerators' places in
the far West and Southwest states of
the widely circulated and erroneous
statement that per capita rates of pay
were to be given in the sparselY popu-
lated regions named.
In this connection the Director has is
sued to the census supervisors a de-
tailed statement of the classification Of
rates adopted for the compensation of
enumerators in the Thirteenth Census,
commencing April Is next.
There are three general rates-the
per capita, the mixed and the per diem.
The first and second general rates
have five subdivisions each.
The per diem rates range from SO to
SO. so, "a, $3.50, IS, $3.50 and Sc. and
are to be paid for day of eight hours
work.
For enumerators on the per capita
basis, which will be that most widely
used, the pay for each inhabitant is:
Glass A, , cents; class B, p cents:
class c, cents; class d, % cents, and
class E, cents. Such enumerators
] w III dloO DS pau III tiNIl ldl III DIS 1Ol-
lows: - Class A, 20 cents; class B, 223
cents; class c, % cents; class d, 274
cents,s1 and class Z. 80 cents. These
rates are in each case 5 cents or more
higher than those paid in 1900, when
the range was from 10 to 20 cents. For
each establishment of productive indus
try the rate for each class is 80 cents.
/ For each barn and inclosure containing
live stock, not on farms, the pay is 10
cents for each class.
Under the mixed rate, which is a
combination of the per capita and the
per diem, there are five subclasses
alphabetically arranged, and the rate
per diem is Class F, 81; G, SIPS; H,
S1.50; l, S1.75, and J, 81. For each in
habitant the pay IS: Class F. cents;
G, q cents; H, % cents; |, q cents,
and j, cents. For each farm: Glass
F, Is cents; G, 17a cents, H, 17a cents;
| and j, 20 cents each. For each es-
Establishment of productive industry the
rate is 20 cents for each class.