Evening star., 1921-09-30
PROPOSED RAISES
FOR Dc. EMPLOYEES
Summary Shows How $176,-
728, Recommended in Re-
:. !. port, will Be Distributed.

How the increase Of $176,72s to sal
aried employees of the District. as rec
omm ended in the report Of the United
States bureau of efficiency to the Dis
trict Commissioners. is distributed
among he.various offices and classes
of work is shown below. This sum-
mary excludes all perdiem employees,
the bureau of efficiency recommending
that wages for that class of work be
not definitely fixed, but be left to vary
with local conditions and be regulated
by the wage paid for similar work in
outside employment. An alternative
table has been prepared for the Com
missioners showing the per diem en-
ployes included in the fixed system of
reclassff1cation
In computing the increased salaries
recommended the bureau of efficiency
first got a description of each job and
ntted this into schedule Of seventeen
groups corresponding with the re-
classification for the departmental
service. Then as each empioye Of the
District was allocated to these groups
the proposed pay was regulated ac-
cording to the pay ranges for such
groups as carried in the Smoot-Wood
bill: If an employe was receiving a
higher rate of pay than the maximum
for the group into which he was put
under the reclassification his pay was
reduced to the maximum for his group.
If he was receiving somewhere be-
tween the maximum and the minimum
he was allowed to remain at his pres
ent salary. If he was receiving less
than the minimum for the group in
which he was placed his pay was
brought up to the minimum for the
group.
Tables Show Amounts.
Accompanying this schedule of
recommended salaries, which are q
net per cent above present salaries,
are other tables showing what the
it is possible to get by proving ef-
fciency to the Commissioners and
thus winning promotion to the higher
salary ranges within the group. 1t will
not be possible for all or for even
half of the employees to get the maxi
mum salary for their grades, because
there is a tacit understanding that
Congress will not appropriate more
than a lump sum for the grades snf-
ficient to pay all those in the group
the midway salary. For instance, II
there are forty employees In a group
$4,000 the appropriation viii fi''GD Prob DO
times the middle figure of $4,000. SO
that while it is possible for some
few individuals to reach the maxi
mum Saiary, II Is not reasonable for
all employees to expect to get above
the midway salary for their re-
spective groups.
In the revised table for salaried
employees. leaving out the per diem
employees, the percentage of increase
is higher than the original tables
showed when the per diem employees
were included.
The recommendations made by the
bureau of efficiency for putting re-
classification into effect, so that the
District employees may be brought up
to a salary schedule comparable with
that paid throughout the depart
mental service. are:
Increasex for City OMces.
Office of board of Commissioners
Fourteen employees; present salary,
$34.760; appraised salary, $4o,4S0; in
crease. 1920; percentage of increase.
17.8.
Office of assesor-Sixty-e -eight en-
ployes; present salary. s109.SS0: ap-
praised salary. $111.s35; increase,
S2.405: percentage of increase, %.
. Office of auditor-Thirty-fv en-
ployes: present salary, $55.s1S: ap-
praised salary. $5s.74o: increase.
I$2.S24; percentage, 81.
Board of charities-Ofice of the