The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-08
congressman Get $4,000 a
Year Each - Governors
Salary Is $4,000 - State
Has Eleven Employees Who
Receive Higher Salaries
Than Governor
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

If taxpayers dream Of state in
which there we're no public officials
and no public payrolls were to come
true in North Dakota 1925 persons
would be looking for jobs and sal
ary list of $240,179.82 a month would
be wiped off the states budget.
These are the official figures AS
prepared by State Auditor John
Steen who is just finishing an analy-
sis of the state payrolls. 1t is the
first complete payroll analysis ever
made in the history of the state. so
far as Steen knows, and hence no
comparisons with previous years are
available.
If the contention of members of
the Nonpartisan League that senators
are state officers is upheld, the SEN
atOrs and congressman representing
North Dakota at Washington would
head the list of salaried employees of
the people. They draw $4,000 year
each.
If, on the other hand, they are
federal officeholders. the palm for
high salaries on the state payroll
Eocs to the presidents Of the state's s
Two leading educational institutions,
the University of North Dakota and
the State Agricultural College. The
head of each gets $500 year.
IL Higher Than Governor
Eleven state employees draw high
err salaries than the governor, who
is listed ut $1,000. and three draw as
| much as the chief executive
II. II. Slocum of the state agricul-
tural college holds second place all
by himself with a salary Of $4,000
| year and the five judges Of the
| supreme court are next in line with
| $500 year.
| Three persons divide fourth place
with salary Of $5,4OO year. They
are @. +. Coskerill, Joseph Kennedy
and V. +. Squires Of the University
of North Dakota faculty.
Three persons share fifth place
with Governor A. G. Sorlie. Thes
are State Bank Examiner Gilbert
Semingson, who draws two saairies
one as Chief Bank Examiner and an.
other as secretary of the Guaranty
Fund Commission; George A. Nc
Farland, president of the State
! Teachers College at Minot, and G. f
Allen, president Of the Valley City
State Teachers College.
| INSTRUCTORS Wen fal0
/ Next in line come 81 individuals
who receive salaries of from $4,OO(
to $4,000 year, most of them in.
structors at the University Of NORTH
/ Dakota and state agricultural Col
lege. Within this classification
come the Is district court judges whit
receive $4,000 year. OF the Z:
highest paid persons on the stat,
| payroll only six are elective officers
the governor and the five judges oi
the .supreme court.
Ranking above, elective officers VIII,
head state departments comes til,
state tax commissioner who receive,
$1,000 q year. Financially he out
ranks the Attorney General at $3,6Ol
year; the state insurance commits
sioner, secretary of state, the con,
missioner Of agriculture and labor
superintendent Of public instruction
the three railroad commissioners an,
numerous others who are rated q
5000. State Auditor Steen an
State Treasurer G. A. Fisher also fal
within this classification, $4,000 be
ing practically standard as salar
for elective olficeholders.>
Sore Enployes Get More Than Thel
Nnnoerous incongruities appear i
I the payroll which shows that 4
nlAny inetances employee draw 4
much Or more than the head 81 th
Il depa rtmsnt under whom they worl
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