Evening star., 1933-10-26
Scale for Temporary Agen-
!. Cies to Be Same as Other
h Federal Units.
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new RATES TO BE PAID
FIRST OF NEXT MONTH
Schedule Takes in Pay Cut and
Fixes Maximum and Mini
mum Wages.

A scale Of salaries for all employees Of
temporary Government establishments,
set up under the Roosevelt administra-
same scales now paid to permanent
Government employees, is being pre-
pared to go to the White House for ap-
proyal and PRONUNCIATION in the form
Of an executive order.
Meanwhile, the new rates, in the
main lower than the temporary
agencies workers now receive. have
been ordered in effect in the National
Recovery Administration and will be
paid all employees Of that agency when
the next checks are received on No
vember ].
The new schedule takes into consid-
Grafton the Is per cent cut which has
been in effect since last April IS, and
In the N. R. A., will range from
minimum of 1850, minus Is per cent.
to the maximum set by Gen. Hugh S.
johnson. recovery administrator, at
$4,000. Only two exceptions to this
top figure have been allowed, Donald
Richberg, chief counsel. who receives
$4,000, and Alvin Brown, deputy ad-
ministrator. who Is understood to re-
ceive $500.
Face Lower Classification.
Except for those employees taken over
from the regular establishment to pre-
vent their being discharged or placed
on payleSs furloughs, employees OF the
N. r. A. and other temporary agencies
will find themselves at the bottom OF
their classifications Those already
classified will keep their claSSihcationS
if they are doing the same kind OF
work for the temporary establishment
they performed for the permanent de-
partments before being transferred.
New employees, e however. who entered
the Government service as employees of
N. R. A.. the Public Works Admins
tration, Farm Credit Administration, or
other temporary set up, will find them
selves getting the lowest rate for their
particular classiflcations.
These minimum rates, for the first
seven statutory classiflcations. are
$3.50, S1,44O, $1620, $1,000, $4,000,
$4,000 and S2.600 These salaries. minus
Is per cent. will be paid the majority
OF new workers.
New Scale Ordered.
In the higher classification, however,
a new graded scale will be ordered.
While exact figures have not been dis
be shaded from $4,000 in the N. R. A..
downward In small reductions. In the
regular establishments, the top sal
aries range downward from $500. with
drops of $500 or more for the lower
grades. In the case of N. r. A. execu-
tives, however, many OF the salaries
are kept as high as the committee
believed equitable to keep them below
Gen. JohnSon'S maximum.
While N. R. A. employees will feel
the ak November 1, other temporary
workers probably will not be forced to
take the permanent scales until the
President gives his approval. !
The emergency agency scale was SET
up at the request of the Cabinet Ad-
visory Committee, and was prepared by
headed by W. H. McReynolds Of the
Farm Credit Administration, who for
merly headed the Personnel Classiflca-
ton Board, and who were assisted also
by classification experts from the Civil
Service Commission. Their study has
been In progress for several weeks.
Gross Pay Rates Fixed.
Under the projected schedule. gross
nay rates are fixed which will operate
to keep the pay in line with that in
the regular agencies after-as antici-
pated-the pay cut Is lifted.
For example, an employe in an old
line establishment who received $100
monthly prior to the economy act. now
draws $85. For a worker in one of the
new agencies who performs the same
tasks the gross rate is fixed at sl00
by the new scale. but he will receive
only $85 until such time as the pay cut
may be lifted; he then will advance in
the same degree as will any old-line
establishment employe, as, it was ex-
planned, the economy act prohibition
against pay raises would not operate
under such circumstances.