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Show Cities Grant Pay Increases To Help Meet Rising Costs Scores of cities are granting pay raises to municipal employees to help them meet increased living costs. In Cleveland the mayor agreed to grant pay raises to municipal muni-cipal employees which will cost the city $2,100,000 this year. Fire and police personnel received a $240 a year increase, plus six new holidays holi-days to be added to annual furloughs. fur-loughs. White collar employees of Cleveland Cleve-land will get a $180 annual raise if they make less than $3,000 a year. Their increase will be 6.5 per cent it they make more than $3,000 annually. an-nually. Pittsburgh councilmen earmarked $1,200,000 for municipal pay raises. Biggest pay boosts went to employees em-ployees receiving $2,000 a year or less. Chicago's record city budget for 1948 Includes pay increases of 8.5 per cent for municipal employees earning less than $5,000 a year, plus raises averaging $300 a year for higher paid employees. In Omaha, all city employees have been given a fiat $15 per month wage boost. The Increase will affect approximately 1,250 workers. New York City boosted the salaries sal-aries of 42 top city officials. The action added $86,000 to this year's payroll. |