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leaving 5,600 state employees affected
by a state-wide civil service system.
Estimating the cost of civil service
at the average figure of $5.00 per em
ployee per year, the annual cost to the
State of Oregon would amount to
$28,000. The actual amount would
vary according to the requirements of
the particular system adopted. This
amount probably should be no less and
could be considerably more. It is, in
addition, only reasonable to anticipate
that to reorganize the present three
state systems into one state-wide sys
tem would entail a certain temporary
reorganisation expense. From the above,
however, it appears that the State of
Oregon is now spending for various
separate systems of personnel manage
ment an amount which should provide
a good coordinated state-wide merit
system of civil service.
It is our belief that the benefits of
the state-wide system are so great that
the State should lose no time in adopt
ing it, especially when it appears that
it could be done without greatly in
creasing the present expenditures for
this purpose.
P.S. Should the cost for Oregon equal
that of California or $10.39 per em
ployee, the annual cost for 5600 state
employees would be $56,429.00.
TH E PERSONNEL AGENCY
Expenditure, Staff, etc., of Various Commissions, 1939
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Buffalo ... _ _
16,351
16,255 $ 38,170 $ 2.35
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Cincinnati
5,351
3,590
33,512
9.34
12
Cleveland (1938) __
14,132
9,923
33,124
3.34
17
Dallas
1,950
1,171
6,556
5.59
2
Federal ____ _
920,310
622,832
3,215,000
5.16 1765
Jefferson County, Ala.
2,387
1,620
18,280
11.28
Los Angeles, County
15,818
15,818
124^621
7.88
Maine (1938)
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3,439
3,337
5,000
1.49
Maryland
9,452
5,133
33,667
6.56
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Minneapolis
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5,625
2,650
24,492
9.24
N ew York City
___ 120,882
120,518
438,078
3.64
202
N ew York State ____
64,302
61,376
313,720
5.11
Oakland
2,309
2,249
23,106
10.27
9
Philadelphia (1938) _
15,768
15,689
87,967
5.61
San Diego County
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1,791
1,342
12,450
9.28
7
San Francisco City
12,877
9,021
70,369
7.79
23
Schenectady
1,258
1,225
2,713
4.01
2
St. Paul . _
3,582
2,051
20,806
10.14
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TOTAL .
1,217,584
895,800 $4,501,631 $ 5.03 .
73.f7 Per cent of total employees under classified service.
From: Public Personnel Administration by Mosher and Kingsley; Published 1941.