Show Uncle Sam Pays L Over Billion on Annual 1 Payroll I. I Full Time Workers Work Work- ers Draw Salaries in Ji I Federal Employ TOTAL KEEPS CLIMBING One Out of Every Citizens Citizens Citi Citi- Citizens zens in Government Service Editors Editor's note Uncle Sams Sam's payroll payroll pay pay- roll is so large that tha t no one in the government can answer with entire entire entire en en- tire accuracy the question of how much it is or how many people are arc on it il It grows by thousands at a time yet there is constant agitation for economy The United Press made an investigation designed designed de de- de signed to gather together the figures figures fig fig- ures on the governments government's payroll and found it amounted to astounding astound astound- ing sums By 8 B United Press WASHINGTON Feb 1 The Thc The names of full time workers are arc to be found on Uncle Sams Sam's pay par roll They receive an average annual an nual wage of 1275 making the total to tal federal payroll according according ac ac- cording to a compilation just completed com com- by b the bureau of the budget This army of federal exceeds exceeds ex ex- the population of any anyone one of fifteen of the forty eight states in the I union It is greater reater than the combined com corn population of New Mexico l Vermont Nevada and Wyoming Only On I four cities in the nation New NewYork NewYork York Chicago Philadelphia and Los I Angeles have as many citizens as the government has An average of one out of every people in the United States work for lor forthe forthe the United States government I The government payroll is so large j that'll th r Vas was not until last week when hen I 1 the bureau of o the budget completed its survey that any agency of o the i i ig government g had more than the I vaguest idea of how much Uncle Sam c paid out in salaries each year On June 30 1931 the the- end of the thelast thelast last fiscal year ear there were c more cs of ot federal depart depart- I Continued on Page Pue Two U. U us u.s. S. S S PAYROLL TOTALS BILLION Continued from Page Pue One ments bureaus and offices than on June 30 1929 when the boom was at its peak Despite reductions in the size of the army navy and marine corps the number of ot names on federal payrolls pay rolls has increased every year since 1927 The number employed today is greater than at any time since the years of ot and immediately after the war The total departmental and office employment last June was 40 per percent percent percent cent greater than that of ot June 1916 The total of government does not include hundreds of thousands of others who indirectly indi indi- are paid with Ith federal funds The great reat majority of those paid indirectly indirectly in indirectly in- in directly are hired by contractors who are arc at work on government projects project The number is variously estimated from half hal a million up up- ward MAJORITY OUTSIDE Comparatively few of ot the governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's work at its s home office the District of ot Columbia In its report on the employment in the executive civil service last June the executive civil service commission I listed men and women working working work work- ing in the district as compared to outside Moreover this report report report re re- re- re port did not include regular federal workers the great majority of ot whom are outside of Washington If It it is difficult to tabulate the federal federal federal fed fed- eral payroll it Is ten times more so soto soto soto to estimate the total number of all government employer including state county and municipal and the amount of tax money they receive in wages each cach year However it has been done In the January supplement of the National Municipal Review the editors estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate that in 1926 there were 2683 full time government and part time workers who vho received a total of ot for their services that year Those figures figures fig fig- ures include federal state city and county All of ot which means according to the editors' editors interpretation of ot their own estimate that one out of every eleven cleven wage earners was at one time or another in the course of the year a public being paid with the money he and the other ten were paying in taxes postage stamps and fines |