The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-16
STATE OFFICERS OF NEW JERSEY
 LITERALLY PAID
There Are More of Them Than in Any Other States of the Same Approximate
 Population

Trenton. July 15.-New Jersey enn- ploys more State officials and pays higher salaries than many other States of the Union with a similar population, as shown by data collected by the State Economy and Efficiency Commission. Data have been col 1ected to afford deductions from which suggestions can be made to the Legislature.
 Excepting New York and Pennsyl vania. the number of New Jersey State employees ranges from 10 to 20 per cent higher than other States of equal or approximately the same all grades. or about one for every S75 of her 2.53T,17s population. Indiana population 2,70o,S76, has 1,69O State employees; Tennessee, population B. 1s4,7 has a payroll for ,575; Mich &gan. population 2,s10,173. supports. 1,02O: Iowa, population 2,224,771, has 1.7Oo.
 While Massachusetts has a popula- ton S29,237 greater than New Jersey, State House in Boston has 543 em- ployees-44 chiefs of departments and 49s clerhsAor 257 fewer than are in the New Jersey Capital building and its annexes. and caring for practically the identical interests that are the concern of the New Jersey State Gov ernment- Massachusetts compe1s her municipalities to perform much of the health. tennement-house, and factory inspection that Is now one of the chief expenses of the New Jersey State Gov eminent, in the aggregate reaching a sum of S115,o 900 for salaries and ex- penses each year.
 Aside from the judicial salaries paid by the Superior Courts of New York and Pennsylvania, the Commis- sion found few, if any, States that ATo fe1 endowment of their Judiciary as New Jersey. nor do many other States ex- ceed the remuneration paid the exec utive branches of government. New Jersey pays it's Governor $10,00O a year, its Chief Justice $13,ooo, Asso- ciate Justices each 2.o0O, Chancel- Tor 5000, Vice-Chance11ors each s12,000. Attorney-General $7,0o0.
 Indiana gives her Governor the odd salary of S7,333.37, Lieutenant-Gover- nor s1.ooo. Judges between $5,0o0 and s7.00O.
 Connecticut pays her Executive $4.- 900, Lieutenant-Governor s1,5o0, Chief Justice ss,ooO. Associate Jus tices each $7,Soo, Attorney-General s5,e00-
 Maryland's Executive receives s4.- 500, Chief Justice $5,soo, Associate Justices $s.s0o. Attorney-General 's3, coo.
 Iowa has q s5.ooo Executive salary. Each of her Justices is paid S6,o00, and the Attorney General $4,00O.
 In other States, ranging between 1.000,00o less in populaAAln to 1,50o,- 900 more than New Jersey, the com pensations run from $4,500 tot 900 for Governors; Justices. from $5, ,0o0 to S7,00o and $8,OOO: Attorney Gener- als, from s4,OOO to $6,OOO.
 Chiefs of New Jersey State depart rnents, notably sthe iTreasureraContro1- Ter. Secretary of State, Clerk in Chan cery, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Commissioner of Banking and Insur- ance, and Commissioner of Labor, re- ceive S6,00o. The Com missioner of Education receives S1O,000. Other department and commission superior officers receive between $4,000, $5,- 900, and $7,5O0 (the latter amount going to each member of the Public Utility Commission, the highest paid governing body in the State3, while the department deputies and so-caIl- ed chief clerks receive between $2,5OO and s4.9Oo.
 Maryland pays her chief depart rnent officials between $2.0O0 and $3,- 900. Throughout the Southern States the compensation to Treasur- CTS and Secretaries of State ranges between s3,OO0 and s3.so0. In many