Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-25
PAY OF STATE employees

PAY OF STATE TE.EMPLoyEs
Budget Commission Recommends
Some Substantial Increases.
Carried in the 1921 state budget as
recommended by Gov. R. \. Cooper,
in transmitting the report of the bud
get commission, are numerous salary
increases to state officials, clerks, ste
nographeys and other employees, the
grand total of which will approximate
$350,000. In some instances depart:
mental salary budgets have been
swclled by the addition of new en-
ployes while in other cases individual
salary increases have Sbeen offset by
reductions in the office force.
The total salary expense of the
governors Office, as recommended for
1921. will total $4,000: as compared
with $4,000 last year. The salary of
the governor himself remains at S5,-
900 while the secretary to the govern
from $4,000 to $4,000 Year. The re-
cording clerk and the !.stenographer-
clerk in the office are each recon-
mended for an increase from s1,5oo to
$1,S00. :!
= In Many Departments.
The increases in salary accounts of
the following departments of the
state government, including in some
instances salaries for newly created
positions, indicate the general trend
OF the increase; secretary of states
Office, from $3.50 to s10,900; the
comptroller general office. from SILL
90 to S15,70O; the attorney generals
/ office, $1,000 to $4,000; the state
treasurer's office, from S10,S55.65 to
s11.5O0: adjustant generals office
| from $4,000 to S14,S60; various de-
rartmcnts of Office Of department Of
education from $1O7,700 to S143,400;
state hospital, from $1SS,0SS to s227,-
72S: state penitentiary, from S11 1,41O
to S14.S00; state board Of public well
fare, from s17,s2o.76 to s24,7Gc; state
training school for feebleminded from
s5.490 to s14,2OO; state industrial
school for boys, /, from s24,422S3 to
S2S.740; state reformatory for negro
boys, from s12,160 to $14,112; state
tax commission, from S14,650 to S25,-
GOO; insurance commissioners office
from $4,000 to $4,000; state bank
examiner from $9,619.S0 to $4,000;
railroad commission from S11,10O to
$1a6O0: chief game warden's office,
5000 to s6.9O0; commissioner of asri-
cultures office from $4,000 to- $685.
74O: state highway commission from
$102,dS276 to $127,900. i...
In Educational Institutions.
The educational institutions are
also included in the salary increase
recommended among them: The Uni
versity Of South Carolina, from S1O9,-
933 to s134147;: Winthrop college
from S1S5.253 to S19S,613; the Citadel,
from $52.462 to $5S,i50.
Deductions are seen in several de-
partments; Clemson college, from
S1S9590 to S137,707 and the board Of
health from s125,251 to S110,159. In
tho case of Clemson college the sala-
ries OF the instruction department are
paid from the fertilizer tax and there
fore not included in the budget. The
State Negro colleges" salaries are al
so not included in the budget, being
paid largely out of federal funds. -
If the various salary increases are
granted as recommended the basic
salary for the greater majority of the
state officials, now $4,000. will be in
creased to S3,600. 3, The largest indi-
vidual increase is that of the attorney
general. whose salary would be raised
from $500 to S4,500. Another notice.
able raise. recommended by the gov
error. is for the state highway en-
! gineer who is now paid $4,000 to re-
ccivc $4,000.
Gets Like Increase.
The secretary of state, now receiv-
| ing $4,000, requested an increase to
$500 and was recommended for a
salary of $4,000. 4 like Increase to
| $4,000 was also recommended by the
governor for the comptroller general,
the adiutant general, the. superintend-
ent of education, the superintendent
of the state penitentiary. chairman Of
the tax commission, 1.-The insurance
commissioner. the three-railroad COM
missioners, the chief game warden,
! the commissioner Of agriculture and
the state electrician. all of whom are
now receiving $4,000 per annum. The
state treasurer requested no increase
in his salary of $500 and was recon-
mcnded for Il raise to $4,000 year.
The attorney general, now receiving
S2.500 Il year. asked for a salary of
$4,000 per annum and was given an
increase TO $4,000. The assistant at
torncy general was recommended for
an increase from $2,4O0to to S3,600 on Il
request for $500 per 'annum. The
state highway engineer requested and
was recommended for an increase
from $4,000 10 $4,000 a year. The
warehouse commissioner and secre-
tary of the sinking fund commission,
secretary of budget commission, all
of whom now receive $4,000 a year,
were recommended for increases TO
$4,000 a year while the salary of the
secretary of the board of public well
fare. now $4,000 to place it on parity
with the basic salary.
The increases recommended eX-
tend through the entire length of the
states payroll to embrace. numbers Of
departmental clerks: stenographers,
bookkeepers, inspectors, subdepart-
ment and bureau heads guards. ply
sicians, instructors, teachers and pro-
fcSSOrS.