SALARIES AND STAFFS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 250, 18 July 1933, Page 7

SALARIES AND STAFFS

State Departmental Heads INTERESTING COMPARISON In an editorial published in the July issue of “The Public Service Journal,” there is a table showing the salaries paid to several administrative officers in the Public Service and the strength of the staff under their control. A plea is made for greater recognition of the responsibilities attached; to the major positions in the service. “Our postal system and our railways possibly are the biggest State institutions in this country, with a staff of over 20,000,” states.the article.. The Secretary of this former well-organised Public Service receives £1023 per annum, while the General Manager of Railways is paid £1312. The Commissioner of Government Life Insurance has to carry his load for £866,; while the General Manager of the State Fire Office has to be content with a similar amount.” The article gives some of the salaries payable to other permanent heads, together with the number of staff controlled by each: —

’’And the Public Service Commissioner himself, the central figure of a,ll, draws £IISI per annum, or £319 per annum less than the salary attached to the office in 1912,” continues the article. “There are thus about thirty to forty positions in a public service of some 50,000, the occupants of which are paid over £7OO per annum, and this at a stage in the Service history when the qualifications of our individual Public Servant are required to be of a higher calibre than ever before.” The best indication of the percentagedistribution of salaries is given in the

Salary of Permanent Permanent Staff under Department. . > Head. his control. Agriculture £981 524 Customs .... £1023 • 294 Education ........... £981, 267 Health £984’ 410 Industries and Commerce and Tourist £708 its Internal! Affairs .... £748 ISO Justice £669 313 Land and Deeds and Stamps £787 196 Lands and Survey .. £787 5S7 Marine £728 168 Mental Hospitals .... £984 . 1089 Pensions £748 101 Printing & Stationery £(180 243 Prisons £708 236 Public Works £1093 709 Sclentl. Indus. Resch. £948 57 State Advances ..<... £984 98 State. Forestry £748 107' Transport £787 7 Treasury £1141 78 Valuation £728 78

following table:— Salary por annum. Over £788 Percentage of total employed. . 0.31 £640-£7S8 0,77 £487-£648 3.53 £400-£486 3.81 £214-£405 20.80 £243 and under .. ...... 61.70 100.00