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Show Utah Government Payrolls Increase 71 In Five Years Editor's Note: The accompanying accompany-ing article is another in the series ser-ies released by the Utah Foundation, Foun-dation, a non-profit tax study group, organized to conduct independent in-dependent studies into state expenditures, ex-penditures, and report their findings. UTAH state government employees em-ployees have received an average aver-age salary increase of approximately approxi-mately 50 per cent in the past five yeas, almost identical to the average increase of private workers in the state, it is revealed re-vealed in a study released today to-day by Utah Foundation, the non-profit, lax-study organization. organiza-tion. Utah employed a total of 3,977 persons to operate non-school agencies ag-encies of state government in January, 1947, compared with 3,491 in January, 1942, an over? all increase of 14 per cent,. The number of employees has increased 5 per cent in general administrative departments, with a 22 per cent increase n' High-. I way Department pescm.nel"an a 77 per cent increase in tho number of employees' of the Em-ploj'ment Em-ploj'ment Security Commission, Expanded highway construction, and the administration of the Veterans' Readjustment program are the principal factovs In tho relatively larger- personnel increase in-crease of these two latter agencies. agen-cies. The gross state government pay roll amounted to $722,147 in. January, 1947, compared with $422,114 for the same, ivibnth of 1942, an increase uf" ?30Q,000, or 71 pey cent, t THE average salary of state employees was $181 per month in January, 1947, compared with $12.1 in January, 1943. Workers of a.11 industries, covered by tho unemployment compensation , law received an average wage of $180 per month for January, 1947, and an average cf $118 for the same month of 1943. Comparing Utah with other states, the report notes that Utah ranks fourth among the eleven western states In average salary paid state employees, fifth in tho number Of state employees per 1,000 population, and fou,rth In the per capita cost of the statu government pay roll. The aver-, age salary paid state employees: in Mountain and Pacific states was $196, $35 higher than the! national aveage of $1(31 monthly. Comparative data are for July, 1946, the latest available on a nation-wide basis. A revision of the salary sched. ulc for Utah state employees approved ap-proved July 1, 1947 by the State Finance Commission will permit salary increases for some job classifications varying from $5 to $45 per month. |
