Typists’ salaries
Sir, —In your issue <of March 22, “Interested” states that as a stenographer of apparently considerable experience, she draws a gross salary of $41.50 a week from a private Aim, and inquires what the wage would be for an equivalent position in the State service. The reply of the district inspector of the State Services Commission may appear to be fair enough but I believe that the inquirer would have been more enlightened had she seen in a recent issue of your paper an advertisement under the heading of “Ministry of Transport, Christchurch,” calling for applications for a senior shorthand typist position and indicating that the commencing salary would be $3258 per annum with prospects of advancement to $3825 per annum. Figures such as those quoted must make not only the inquire: but also many employers of senior shorthand typists and dictaphone typists wonder in what sectors of the community ruling rates surveys are conducted for the fixing of State service salaries.— Yours, etc, PERPLEXED. March 23, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32563, 24 March 1971, Page 20
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