Evening star., 1933-08-23
RADIOS PAY ROLL
! TOTALSS23,ol),o)D
Study Reveals Sum Is DiStrib.
uted Among $4,000, Ex-
: elusive of Entertainers.

~ Ado broadcasting's big parade
Il of progress around the United
IN States during the last dozen
Il Y years has created an industry
affording livelihood to some
120o0 full-time employees, exclusive OF
artists, with an annual pay roll which
this year shall approach S23,000,000.
Statistics covering the newest OF the
front rank industries for the first time
have been computed in connection with
the planned filing of a code for broad
casters with the Industrial Recovery
Administration. Based on q survey con-
Quoted by the National Association of
BroadcaSters, which will file the code,
the figures give an insight on the
phenomenal growth of an industry,
which in 1921 was considered mere
passing fad.
BroadcaSting'S magnitude as an in
dustry, however. does not stop with It's
fl:ll-time employees and regular pay roll
There are literally thousands of radio
artists hired by program sponsors and
by the networks who are not included
in the full-time category.
The compilations were made by DR.
Herman S. Hettinger, professor of the
Wharton School of Finance OF the
University of Pennsylvania. He is on
leave of absence and is at present re-
tanned as research specialist of the
N A. B. His estimates were based on
returns from 154 stations in all power
categories.
DR.. Hettinger concluded that the
total pay roll of the 600 odd broad
casting stations. excluding networks, IS
approximately S17.000.000 for the cur
rent year. distributed among $500 reg
ular full time employees. Add to this
total the some 1000 employees of the
National Broadcasting Co. and Column
bia Broadcasting System. plus the full
time employees of the miscellaneous net
works, radio station representatives and
field men transcription companies and
other small groups and the total en-
ployment figure should reach 10000.
the pay roll would amount to $23,O0O,-
900. since most of these network and
special employees are in the higher
salary executive brackets.
The average weekly wage in the in
dustry, according to DR.. Hettinger, is
s3372 and the average annual wage
$1753 This compares with an annual
wage for manufacturing employees in
1880 of approximately s1,340 and for
retail employees of Sl,315.
WILL ROGERS, Kate Smith. Al
w Jolson and a host of others are
to broadcast for N. r. A. in the
first of a series of radio presentations
over the combined N. B. c. and c. B. S.
networks This gala broadcast is
scheduled Sunday night. The show will
run an hour, and includes also Nino
Martini, Burns and Allen, John Charles
Thomas. the Army and Marine Bands,
the Damrosch Symphony Orchestra and
the Frank Black Orchestra.
Numerous Others including Eddie
Cantor. Nine Schumann- -Heink and
Jack Pearl have been invited. Five
speakers have been named, among
whom are Kate Smith and Recovery
Administrator johnson. The masters of
ceremonies will be WRC's Herluf Pro-
vensen, Graham McNamee, and Ted
Husing.
X X X X
HELEN HAYES, star of the screen
i / play, Another Language" will be
the principal guest artist on Rudy
Vallee's Variety Hour tomorrow night
over WRC. She will do sketch from
one of her recent pictures.