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Show High School Students Learn of Increasing Status for Secretaries The average secretary in Utah is earning more than double what she was 20 years ago, and in ten years will be making approximately ap-proximately 25 more than she is earning now. This was the report of George H. Maxwell, Salt Lake City, administrative ad-ministrative assistant to the president of Stevens Henager College, Col-lege, as he spoke to Parowan High School students about employment em-ployment opportunities in the future. Stevens Henager is an accredited Junior college of business. 'The average secretary in Utah receives approximately $85 per week, according to statistics compiled by the United States Department of Labor," he said. "This compared with $50 to SCO ten years ago, and ony J35 to $40 twenty years ago. In 1973 she will probably be earning between be-tween $100 and $110 per week." Mr. Maxwell said that young people in the Iron County area 1 are facing a future in which brains and skill will be at a 1 premium, whether in the field of business or in professional and technical areas. "The employment outlook for ; the unskilled will grow increas-I increas-I ingly bleak, especially in this mountain area," Mr. Maxwell predicted. "However, there will still be plenty of positions available avail-able for the person who knows what he wants and prepares himself him-self for it. Even with high employment em-ployment in Utah and the nation, na-tion, there are a great many jobs which go begging for want of trained personnel to fill them," I he said The demand for professional, profes-sional, technical and clerical workers is especially acute, Mr. Maxwell pointed out. 'United States Department of Labor statistics show tha the demand lor proiessionai ana tec-nnicai workers will increase more than 40 percent in the 1960s. The need for persons trained in clerical, business and office skills, will increase more than 30rr in this same period." |