Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
HARD TO MAKE
! COMP PAR|SON OF
SALARIES PAID
So Declares the Census Bureau
Statistician in Advance Cir
cuIar Issued.
DUTIES OF OFFICIALS
LACKING SPECIFICATION
Non- Uniformity in Titles Large
Iy to Blame, Is One Ex-
pIanation Given.
DUTIES OF OFFICIALS
LACKING SPECIFICATION

circular letter which, from print
ed headings and directions, may be
considered an advance sheet of re-
port to be issued by the bureau of the
census, department of commerce, and
treating of salaries paid certain off,
GERS in designated cities throughout
the United States, has been sent from
Washington to the afternoon news
papers of the country and is released
for publication today. The report. it
Is explained, was prepared under the
supervision of lie Grand Powers. chief
statistician for finance and municipal
statistics, and issued by William j..
Harris, director of the census.
In the list appear the names of 1873
cities, set off in five groups on the
basis of. population classification.
Group embraces cities of popula
tion of 100000 or more; group g cities
of 100000 to 100000; group 3, cities of
100000 to 100000; group 4, cities of
$4,000 to 100000, and group s. cities of
10000 to $4,000.
Officials included in the report are
aldermen or councilnen, mayors, com
nissioners, city clerks, comptrolers,
auditors, treasurers or chamberlains
assessors, collectors of revenue and
city attorneys or solicitors.
Criticism is made of the lack of uni
formity in titles OF officers having like
duties to perform. it being pointed oht
that by reason of this fact compari-
SOIL of salaries paid by the different
cities can only be partially made. as
the cost to the city for specific SER
vices is only determinable by ascer-
tanning the character and extent of
the services required of officials.
Group 1.-PopuIation 100000 Plus.
Care is taken, however, to empha-
size the point that cities in group u
naturally pay their officials more than
is paid in cities of less population. for
example. New York paid it's rayor
$4,000 a year, while Chicago pan its
chief executive $4,000 year; Phlla-
delphia, 1000; st. Louis, $1,000; Bos-
ton, 10000; Cleveland, 100000; Balti-
more, s6.0o0 Pittsburgh, $4,000, and
Detroit, 81, 900 The salaries of the
city clerks for cities of group |
ranged from $S,000 which is paid in
New York, to $3, 900, which is the sal
ary in st. Louis. The comptroller of
the city of New York received
$4,000 salary; of Chicago. $4,000. and
of Philadelphia, $4,000.
The other cities in this group paid
salaries of either $4,000 or $4,000 per
annum to the comptroller. The audi
TOR of the city of Boston was paid
$4,000 a year, a larger salary than
was paid by any other city in this
group, the salaries for other cities
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000. The city
chamberlains or treasurers OF New
York and Chicago each received
salary of $4,000 year, While the sal
aries of those in the seven other cities
ranged from $500 to $4,000 a year.
The assessors of the cities of group l
received salaries ranging from $1,000
in New York TO $2,700 in Pittsburgh.
The city attorney of New York city
received $4,000 a year and of Chi
cago and of Philadelphia, $4,000.
Baltimore paid the lowest salary of
any city in this group to its city at
torney-s4, 500 a year-the salaries in
the other cities in this group ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Group 100000 to 100000.
Group includes Buffalo, San Fran
cisco, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Los An
geles, Newark, New Orleans, Wash
ington and Minneapolis. The mayors
of Cincinnati and of New Orleans re-
ceived the largest salaries for cities
of this group-S10, 900 a year-the ad
vance sheet says-while the salaries
CT mayors in the other C ties ranged
from $4,000 in Milwaukee to $4,000 in
San Francisco. The city clerk of
Newark heads the list for cities in
this group. receiving a salary of $500
year, while the city clerks of the
eight other cities ranged from 81, 400
in Los Angeles to 81 100 in Cincinnati
The comptroller of Newark receives
a salary of $1,000 a year, while the
comptrollers of Minneapolis, Milwau
,1<ee and Buffalo received $4,000 each
-Four cities in this group, namely,
Buffalo, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and
Minneapolis, paid salaries of $4,000 a
year TO their treasurers or chamber
lains. Los Angeles paid salary of
S2,400; Washington, ID. c., $4,000; San
Francisco, $4,000. and Newark, 81, 800.
The auditor of Cincinnati is paid a
salary of $4,000 a year; of Buffalo,
$500; of San Francisco and Wash
ington, $4,000; of Newark. $4,500; of
Los Angeles, $4,000, and of New Or
leans, $500. The assessor of San
Francisco is paid $4,000 year, which
is the highest for any city in this
group. The salaries of assessors in
other cities ranged from $1,000 in
Washington to $4,000 in Minneapolis.
The city attorney or solicitor of New
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