Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-26
State Employees May Get In.
crease.

crease.
Carried in the 1921 state budget
as recommended by Gov. R. A. Coop
er, in transmitting the report of the
budget commission, are numerous
salary increases to state officials,
clerks, stenographers and other en-
ployees, the grand total of which will
approximate S350,OOO. In some in
stances departmental salary budgets
have been swelled by the addition of
new employees while in other cases
individual salary increases have been
offset by reductions in the office
force.
The total salary expense of the
governors office, as recommended
for 1921, will total $4,000 as COM
pared with s1O,4Oo last year. The
salary cf the governor himself re-
mains at $4,000, while the secretary
to the governor is recommended for
an increase from S2,400 to $4,000 a
mended for an increaseota0Svo0.v,
year. The recording clerk and steno-
grapher-clerk in the office are each
recommended for an increase from
$1,50O 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 $4,000; the
comptroller generals Office, from
$1,000 to S15,7O0; the attorney
generals office, $1,000 to $4,000;
the state treasurer's Office, from $10,-
s55.65 to s11,5oo; adjutant gener-
al's office from $4,000 to S14,S6O;
various departments of Office of de-
partment of education from $1O7,-
700, to S143,40O; state hospital,
from S1ss,Oss to s227,72s; state
penitentiary, from $11,47O to $14,-
800; state board of public welfare,
from s17,s2O.76 to s24,7oO; state
training school for feeble ?minded,
from s5,490 to S14,2OO; state indus
trial school for boys, from $24,422.-
s3 to $2S,74O; state reformatory for
negro boys, from S12,160 to $14,-
112; state tax commission, from $14-
$50 to $25,6OO; insurance commits
sioner's Office from $1,000 to $13,-
600; state bank examiner, from S9,-
$3.50 to $4,000; railroad commits
sion from s11,1oo to s15,6O0; chief
game warden's Office, $500 to $6,-
900; commissioner of agriculture's
Office, from s43,99O to S56,74O; state
highway commission, from S1O2,4S2,-
76 to $127,900.
In Educational Institutions.
The educational institutions are
also included in. the salary increases
recommended among them: The Uni
versity of South Carolina from $780,
933 and 194,147; Winthrop college
from s1s5,25S to s1aS,613; the Cit
adel, from $52,462 to S5S,450.
Reductions are seen in several de-
partments: Clemson college, from
s1ss,59o to s1s7,7O7 and the board
of health, from s125,251 to s110,,
159. In the case of Clemson college
the salaries of the instruction depart
ment are paid from the fertilizer tax
and therefore not included in the
budget. The State Negro colleges
salaries are also 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
he increased to $4,000. The largest
Individual increase is that of the at
torney general, whose salary would
be raised from $4,000 to $4,000. An
other noticeable raise, recommended
by the governor, is for the state
highway engineer who is now paid
$4,000, to receive $4,000.
Gets Like Increase.
The secretary of state, now re-
ceiving $4,000, requested an increase
to $4,000 and was recommended for
a salary of $4,000. A like increase to
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