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Show The Enterprise Review , December 8, 1976 Page 2b Jobless How Do SL Wages Measure Up? Rate Slides According to U.S. Labor Department figures, Salt Lake City pays among the lowest wages for typical office and manufacturing positions. Compared with Albuquerque, Boise, Denver and Phoenix, in 1974, employers in Salt Lake paid the lowest wages for the positions of auto mechanic, and secretary. They paid the second-lowewages, slightly higher than those paid in Albuquerque, for truck drivers, computer programmers and secretaries in nonmanufacturing industries. In October, 1976, personnel offices of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, the state and the University of Utah compiled results of a new survey of wages paid in Utah. Entitled the Intergovernmental Compensation Survey, the report includes wages paid to employees of 33 large Utah companies as well as those in public agencies. The survey was conducted at the request of the state legislature, and it w ill be combined with a cost of living index to help determine salaries for state employees. Examples of average monthly wrages paid to employees in a few representative positions follow: Continued from page lb vice figures for retail trade show' a quick decline of one percent, the first reduction A .3 percent since April. decline in employment in the service industries was also st Utah White Truck Inc. Commercial Security Wants Branch Commercial Security Bank has applied for permission to establish a branch office in the vicinity of 2600 South and 1 in Davis County. Highway According to the bank's application, the estimated population of the service area (from 1800 South to 3600 South to the Wasatch Mountains) is and from Highway 89-9- 1 11.500. No banks are currently operating in the area, although s Bank & Trust the State has granted approval to to operate a branch near the proposed site. Commercial Securitys application stated it expects the area to become a commercial center, based on planned road 89-9- Traditional construction material for our truck maint- enance buildings would have cost us a fortune in heating cooling costs. We needed a better alternative. " I'Uh Bill experienced during Smilh'-Presiden- l, While Truck, Inc. Tracy-Collin- construction. Empire State Bank Hearing Continued Despite the fact that none of the three protestants to the proposed Empire State Bank were present at a public hearing last Thursday, the Commissioner of Financial Institutions continued proceedings until Dec. 14 to give them an opportunity to challenge an amendment to the bank's proposed capitalization. Filing formal protests with the Department against the unit bank, proposed for the site of the old Congress Hotel, were Commercial Security Bank, First Security Bank of Utah, and Walker Bank & Trust. In their original application filed Aug. 26, organizers of Empire State Bank, Edward F. Pederson, Milton Weilen-manJohn Price, Robert E. Wells, et. al., proposed capitalization of $4 million. That amount was later changed to $2 million. Because he had not made official notification of the amendment. Commissioner Smoot Brimhall continued the hearings, limiting their scope to only the subject of capitalization. n, INTEGRAL STEEL STRUCTURES DID IT Mechanics for White. Truck, Inc. will be working in the maintenance buildings year round. By utilizing the Armco Steelox panel in combination with fiberglass insulation and steel liner panel, a 30 savings in fuel cost will be realized as compared with other types of roof and wall construction. d The Steelox panel-fini- sh guaranfor teed twenty years-- is aesthetically appealing and will save additional thousands in maintenance expenses in the coming years. ember, the industry second decline since April. The trade and services industries, combined, make up nearly 42 percent of all the jobs in Utah. A flattening of the grow th rates for these two big industries would severely affect the overall employment picture and may indeed signal another general slowdown in the offing, Welch said. Labor Market Indicator Gains The Labor Market V AUTH0RIZED dealer Armco Building Systems INTEGRAL STEEL STRUCTURES 444 So. 300 West 210 Salt Lake City, Utah 84147 (801) 363-885- 8 In- dicator surged upward to 60.0 during the week ending Nov. 27, approaching the 65.0 level of a balanced labor market. Labor Market Indicator Oct - Nov, 1976 g 60 58 56 1154 52 I 50 luulllJ J 2 9 16 23 30 5 13 20 27 Oct Nov Week Ending mimmimininiiinninn TIFFANYS ATTIC W' THEATRE RESTAURANT -- I HAVENT MISSED A SHOW YET. ITS ONE OF SALT LAKES FINEST AND MOST UNIQUE SPOTS. Amos Bagley. ViCe Pres, dent. Z,on s Firs, Natronal Bank ENTERTAINMENT TREMENDOUS FOOD AND GREAT ENTERTAINMENT. 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