The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-27
Census Director Gives Facts
i'll Regard to Payment of
Men Who Take Census
GRADED SALARIES TO APPLY
Wages to be for a Day of Eight Hours
and Enumerators Will be Well
Paid-Must Make Application for
Places at Once.

The varying wage scales in different
parts of the country and the differ
ences in the nature and extent of the
local difficulties confronting the enum-
orators in the larger geographical divi-
sions of the United States have infu-
enced and guided United States Cen
sus Director Durand in the adoption
of a classification of enumeration s
rates of compensation, within the linn
its prescribed by the United States
Census law enacted by Congress.
The different classes of rates will be
so applied that in general the average
enumeration 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
different. 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 enumera-
tors substantially uniform. Where
the 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 enumera-
tors than they received in 1900.
| Per diem rates of pay will be paid
to the census enumerators in the
sparsely settled rural districts Of Ari-
IONA, California, Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana, Texas, Utah, Washington, and
Wyoming.
| The rate will range from S. to Sc per
day for the enumeration Of the rural
areas outside of cities and towns. Six
dollars is the highest rate authorized
by law.
This announcement was made by
Census Director Durand today, 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 percapita rates of pay
were to be given in the sparsely popu-
lated regions named.
In this connection the director has
Used 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 per
diem
The first and second general rates
have five subdivisions each.
The per diem rates range from So
to $3.50, 81, $3.50, IS, $3.50, and Sc
and are to be paid for a. day of eight
hours work.
| For enumerators the per capita bas-
/ is, which will be that most widely
used, the pay for each inhabitant is:
Glass A, 2 cents; class B, pa cents;
class c. 3 cents; class D, 31a cents;
and class E. 4 cents. Such enumera-
tors viii also be paid for each farm
as follows: Class A, 90 cents; class B,
221a cents; class G. 25 cents; class D,
271a cents; and class E, 80 cents.
These rates are in each case 5 cents
or more higher than those paid in
1900, when the range was from Is to
20 cents. For each establishment of
productive industry 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 per
diem is: Glass T, l; G, 1925; H, $3.50;
/. $1'75; and j, 50. For each in
habitant the pay is: Glass F, cents;
G, 213 cents; H, 21a cents; I, 215
cents; and j, cents. For each farm:
F, Is cents; G, liz cents; H, 1715
cents; / and J, 20 cents each. For
each establishment of productive in
dustry the rate is 20 cents for each
class.