The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27
ENUMERATORS' RATES OF PAY.
Census Director Durand Establishes
Il Classification Of the Compensation
of Census Takers.

of the country and the difference in
the nature and extent of the local diff
ficulties confronting the enumerators
in the largest geographical divisions
of the United States have Influenced
and guided United States Census Di-
rector Durand in the adoption of a
classification of enumerators' rates of
compensation, within the limits pre-
scribed by the United States Census
law enacted in Congress.
The different classes of rates will
be so applied that in general the av-
erage enumerator will earn substan-
TALLY the same actual amount in one
district as in another, even though
the population may be much sparser
other conditions also different Re-
gard is paid to the fact that prevail
ing wages and salaries are higher in
some parts of the country than in
others, but aside from this, the direc-
tors aim is to adjust the rates so as
to make the earnings of enumerators
substantially uniform. Where the per
capita rates would not give sufficient
pay, the per diem rates are prescrib-
ed. The rates in general will be so
adjusted as to giv- a 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 Ar
iona, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, Texas, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming.
The rate will range from S. to Sc
per day for the enumeration of the ru-
raj areas outside of cities and towns.
Six dollars is the highest rate au-
thorized 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 rate of COM
pensation less than than being paid
for ordinary classes of work in the
same area. Were enumerators in
such districts paid only on the per
capita basis, their compensation would
be unreasonably low.
The enumerators in the thinly in
habited country sections of North Da-
Il
Kansas also will be compensated on
a per diem basis. Certain difficult OF
sparsely settled enumeration districts
in other States will be included, among
those to which the per diem rates will
apply, as the condition of the enumer-
alton will be such that an enumeration
could not make fair earnings at any
of the per capita rates established.
This announcement was made by
Census Director Durand Saturday, in
order to counterfeit the deterrent eff
feet upon applications for enumerat-
or's places in the far West and South
west States of the widely circulated
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capita rates of pay were to be given
in the sparsely populated regions
named.
The Classification Of Rates.
In this connection the Director has
issued to the census supervisors a de-
tailed statement of the classification
of rates adopted for the compensation
of enumerators in the Thirteenth Cen.
sus, commencing April Is next.
There are three general rates-the
per capita, the mixed, and the pei
diem.
The first and second general rates
have five subdivisions each.
The per diem rates range from S.
to $780, 81, $3.50, So, $3.50 and &c.
and are to be paid for day of eight
hours work.
For enumerators on the per capita
basis, which will be the most widely
Glass A, 2 cents, class B, 2 1-2 cents
class c. cents; class d, IL cents
and class f, cents. Such enumera-
tors will also be paid for each farm
as follows; Glass A, 20 cents; class
B. % 1-2 cents; class G, % cents; class
d, 81 1-2 cents; and class e, 80 cents
These rates are in each case cents
or more higher than those paid il
1900, when the range was from 10 tC
20 cents. For each establishment Of
productive industry the rate for eacl
class is 80 cents. For each barn and
Enclosure containing live stock, not
on farms, the pay is 10 cents for each
class.
Under the mixed rate, which is g
combination of the per capita and the
per diem, there are five classes al
alphabetically arranged, and the pei
diem is: Glass f, 81; G, $1.25; II
$3.50; l, $1.75; and j, So, For each
inhabitant the pay is: Glass F,
cents; G, 2 IL cents; II, 2 IL cents
I, 2 1-2 cents; and j, 3 cents. Fol
each farm: Glass F, 10 cents; G
II IL cents; ! and ], 20 cents each
For each establishment of productive
industry the rate is 20 cents for eacf