Evening star., 1935-03-31
FEDERAL PAY ROLL
GOES TO NEW HIGH
WITH RESTORATION
Local incomes Increased to
$500, 900, 900 Annually
as Cut Ends.
TOTAL FOR COUNTRY IS
100000 900 MONTHLY
Latest Figures on Government
Employment Show Gain of
2S,7l5 in Capital.
BY J. A. FOX.

The Government pay roll in Wash
ington tomorrow advances to a new
all-time high-Somewhere around
5000, 100000 annually-as the per
cent pay cut is lifted, to do away
finally with this phase of the economy
era which started 80 months ago.
Concurrent with this development,
the release by the Civil Service Com
mission yesterday of the monthly per-
sonnel figures in the executive estab-
lishments, for February, made possible
a comparison to show their growth
in the first two years of the Roose-
velt administration, and disclosed that
in that time employment here has in
creased 28,7l5 to a total of 95.517, and
in the field, 88 ,344 to a total of $685.
029. for total increase of 117,059,
and total Federal force of 680,546.
The final step in the restoration Of
basic salaries means q monthly in
crease In the pay roll here of approx
imately $500 900, without taking into
consideration the figures for the legis-
lative and judicial branches, or the
armed services. For the Federal Gov.
eminent the boost is about S7OO, 600.
and the District government 500, 900.
Figures Are Estimates.
These totals are, of necessity, an
estimate. for no exact calculation has
been made. They are based, so far as
the Federal Government Is concerned,
on the ratio of local to field employees,
with total monthly pay rob around
the 500 100000 mark, and agree with
an unofficial estimate at the Treasury.
The District figures are based on the
budget. Although local employment
is still some 10000 less than the war
time peak. salaries are running higher,
and it is figured that the Government
pay roll In the executive branch will
run over sta, 900 900 annually, and
that of the District government about
S24, ,000, 900.
Tomorrow will be the first day since
June 80. 1882, that Government en-
ployes scattered over the globe have
received a full days pay for CORE.
spending labor. First came the 8 1-3
per cent cut, exacted by virtue of a
24-day furlough. instituted on July
l of that year by President Hoover.
Nine months later it was jumped to
is per cent in the first Roosevelt
economy act, and this rate prevailed
until last year, when, over the Presi-
dents veto, per cent restoration
was voted as of February /. and an
other July /. The President
had proposed in his budget message
that the last be lifted July l next.
but again he was overruled by Con-
gress. which advanced the date three
months.
L. S. Employment Gains.
Meanwhile. as pay has been making
a comeback, Government employ
ment here has been steadily on the
increase, as it has over the country.
On the last day Of February, 1888,
just before President Hoover left
office, the executive establishment
had 66.802 persons on its rolls; a year
later this figure was 1913. including
$3.50 temporaries, and on February
% last there was the increase to
95,5l7, which included 7548 tempe
rar1es. Before the New Deal got
started, temporary employment was q
minor factor and in compiling the
monthly report. the Civil Service
Commission did not segregate this
class.
In the field, the employment figures
as of the corresponding dates in 1888
34-35 were 496.6S5, 531 ,839, and final
ly, 585,029. OF this latter, 80,573 are
temporaries, an advance in this class
OF 23,500 in year. In all, between
February 1934-1935, nearly $1,000 per-
sons were added to the Executive
group.
Increases General.
The New Deal agencies, of course,
are responsible for the principal in
crease. The old-line establishments.
however, generally have shown some
expansion due to added work flowing
from the junior groups, despite the re-
organization Shake-up of July, 1888. .
Treasury, Justice, Navy, Interior,
Agriculture, the General Accounting
ONCE, Government Printing Office,
Civil Service Commission and Federal
Power Commission locally have re-
fiected this later activity. while on the
other side of the picture, and still
showing the results of economy re-
ductions are Commerce, Labor, Post
Office, Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and Veterans Administration.
On the last day of February, 1888,
there were AZ Executive agencies; to-
day. there are 81. As some of the old
ones have been done away with en-
tirely, or merged into other bodies,
this means that about 80 new estab-
lishments have come into existence.