EMPLOYEES OF STATE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 26 December 1925, Page 10

EMPLOYEES OF STATE

TOTAL EXCEEDS 55,000 LOCAL BODIES HAVE 23,742 WAGES BILL OF £18,000,000 An estimate of the number of persons employed by the State and local authorities in New Zealand has been made by the Government Statistician and is published in the latest issue of the Year Book. He places the total at 79,000, whose salaries and wages amount to £18,000.000. A similar compilation was made in 1915, when the total was estimated at 60,000 with an aggregate annual remuneration of about £8,000,000. The investigation of the position at March 31, 1925, though dependent upon estimation in some respects, is based upon more nearly complete statistics than that, of ton years ago. Following is a summary of the results of the survey —part-time employees are excluded from the numbers, though their salaries aro included in the expenditure of local authorities: Employees Salaries &

Railwavs 17.246 Wages £4.3.85,104 Post and Telegraph . 10,384 2,151.910 Education 9,845 2,371,000 Under Public Service Commissioner . . . . 8.090 2,189,119 Public. Works 6,583 1,274,038 Other State employees 3.173 839.667 — — Total State .. . . 55,321 .13,210,838 Borough Councils . . 10.065 £2,228,451 Countv Councils . . . 4.60S 757,668 Hospital Boards . . . 3,898 452,222 Harbour Boards . . . 2 SS7 707,189 Power Boards . . .. 1.199 232,666 Other Bodies .. .. 1,085 354,025 Total 23,742 £4,792.221 Grand Total .. . 79,073 18,003,059