Evening star., 1921-08-30
NEW SALARY SCALE
FORD. D.C.,EMP[OYES
READY NEXT WEEK
Including Charwomen and
Per Diem Workers, RecIass-
ification Covers 1900.
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES
WILL BE PROVIDED FOR
Schedules for $1,000 Departmental
Workers Also Completed-Will
Be Thorough Job.

The classification of District en-
ployes being made by the u S. bu-
reau of efficiency will be completed
and in the hands of the District Com
missioners within a week. The plan is
to have the new salary schedules used
by the Commissioners in making their.
annual estimates for Congress.
This reclassification covers about
1.500 employees. including charwomey>
and per diem employees, but excluds
ing school teachers. police and fire.
men. Because the salaries are admit
tedly very low in the District gov,
ernment. the reclassification sched-
ales carry substantial increases, aver
aging from II to Is per cent. aboyk
the present salaries, plus the bonus
In few individual cases there viii be
no salary increases, and in some in
dividual cases the increases recon-
mended by the bureau of efficiency,
will run UP to 80 per cent.
The reclassfication Of employees
throughout the other federal depart
ments has been completed by the bu-
reau of efficiency. and will be sub
mitted to Congress just as soon as
Congress is ready to discuss the salary
question. This departmental survey
covers about $4,000 persons. The re-
classification schedules will call for
an increase in salaries above the basic
salaries Of something over $4,000. 900.
and more than $7.000,000 more than
present salaries plus the bonus.
These schedules are the first effort
at reclassification which show Con-
gress. the departmental heads or the
employees in dollars what the reclassi-
fication means. When these schedules
are laid before Congress any member
can tell to dollar what the proposed
scheme of reclassifcation will cost.
and every individual government en-
ploye will be able to tell to a cent
what 1t means to him or her. These
new schedules tell the name of each
employe. just what kind of work each
is doing, where employed. the amount
of present salary and the amount of
salary proposed under reclassification.
DiMeult Task.
The reclassifcatipn survey for the
1.500 employees OF the District was
the most difficult ever tackled by the
and much more complicated and ex-
acting than for any of the depart
mental services. The reason is that
while the departmental schedules
cover $4,000 persons. many of them
are found doing the same kind Of
work. while with only 1900 in the
District service 1t is very rare that
any two are found doing exactly the
same kind of work. The District
service has been found by far the
most specialized and diversified, and
most needing revision.
Herbert d. Brown. chief of the
united states bureau of efficiency,
emphasized today that this work of
reclassifying the District employees
is not a superficial job. but has been
done thoroughly, with the utmost
pains and intelligence, by our best
experts. 1t is not a makeshift sehed-
ule. but is intended to be nerma-
nent and workable. doing justice to
the capable and faithful workers
practically all of whom are now
greatly underpaid
Cost OF Reclnssfaed.
Mr. Brown explained that the cost
or the reclassi7ed service is figured in
three ways: % Where an employe is
oeiow the salary range for his grade
OF work. bringing him up to the min.
imum OF the grade: (2) where an EN-.
pioye is within the range of salary
IN the grade. letting him stand where
ne is. and CD where an Amploye 10
ABOVE the range of salary in his grade
bringing him to the maximum Of tho
grade He produced several schedule
sheets to show that the amount tn he
saved in thus reducing a few salaries
now above the range for their re-
spectiVe grades would mean such a
small! saving that it would hardly he
worth while to make the reduction