The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-07-27
Salaries OF
County Officers
BENEWAH AND KOOTENM COMPARED
Only One-iaIf the Amount Being Expended in
Benewah County That Is Paid in KOOtena

The taxpayers league of Occur
d'Alene has been making am in
Vcstigation into the monthly sal
aries paid the county officials and
their deputies i'm Kootenai county
and has prepared a table com
pairing the salaries paid i'm each
office this year with the salaries
paid i'm the same Office last year
before the county was divided.
The table which has the O. X.
of county auditor Dandy does not
include the salaries of the coroner
or county surveyor and shows
total monthly salary of S35O3.3I
for the year 1914 and and a total
monthly salary OF S332S.3l for
the year 1915, or a net decrease
of of $1,000 after Benewah
county was cut Oft. Three of
the officers showed an increase
this year over last, the assessor
Si5 per month, the probate Judge
S25 per month and the supcrin-
tendent of-schoOls Si5 per month.
The treasurer shows a decrease
of $40, the sheriff 800, the aud
ilor $40 and the county att0r-
ney $1,000
The above will be of interest to
the people of This county only by
way of comparison with the sal
aries being paid the county Of
iicers i'm this county and as an il
lustration of the economy that is
being practiced here as compared
with Koolenai county.
In Kootenai county there ara
employed i'm the auditors Office
three deputies and two copyisls
besides the auditor and the total
monthly salary is $4,000: Bene-
wah county. auditor, one deputy
and one copyisls, salary $3.50
difference. S391.66. Sheriff
Kootenai two deputies and one
jailor, salary Sf74.99; Benewah
county, one deputy, one iailor,
salary $4,000, difference SI29.00
| Treasurer, Kootenai, one deputy
and bookkeeper, salary S3Sl.66;
Bcnewah, clerk, total salary, Sl75
difference, S2O6.66. Probate
Judge. Kootenai. clerk, total sal
airy, s2iO; Benewah county, clerk
total salary, Sl75; difference. s35
County Attorney, Kootenai
copyist; total salary 5000: Bene-
wah, copyists; total salary sl85
difference, SIS. Assessor, Koot-
enai; three Office deputies, on,
copyist; total salary $50: Benc-
wah, one Office deputy. total sal
ary S236.65; difference, S333.35
superintendent of schools, K0oi
> cnai, one copyist; total salary
q 5000; Benewah, no help. salar,
S9l.66; difference, SlO8.3l. Com.
missioners, Kootenai; three com.
nissioners. each $3.50, total $3.50
Henewah, three commissioners
each s5S.33, total $1,000; differ
ence $4,000. Janitor. KoOtenai
two. each $1,000, total $3.50: Ben
cwah none difference, $3.50.
{ The salaries Of the county SUR
- NcNpf ana coroner are not BNcl
= In the table So no comparison can
e be made jan regard to these tw
- offices. TO summarize, the to
L tai monthly salaries being pal
I county officers and their deputie
p i'm Kootenai county amount O.
s3328.3t, while i'm Benewah, tn
n same county officers and their as
q sistants are paid St672.3l o
practically half that amount.
+; Il Will be noted that the great
.t est difference i'm the salarie
IS comes i'm the two most importar
- offices, the auditor and the as
r. SCISSOR. K0otenai county pay
/: nearly three times as much
r. The auditors Office and almo,
II as much more proportionately
It the assessors o1ice. and the con
I lmissioners are paid nearly thr'
Sc times as much i'm Kootenai as
lt Renewah county The only tv
a Offices where the expense is pra
tically the same in the two cou