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budgetary amounts for salaries and
wages should not be pared at the sacri-
fice of the state service; (4) the state
must attain parity pay for state em-
ployees. To achieve these ends the Ore-
gon State Employees Association earn-
estly solicits your support.
Yours truly,
FORREST V. STEWART
Executive Secretary
ACTUAL LIVING COSTS AS SUBMITTED BY STATE EMPLOYEES
JU LY 1946
The
La
Salem Salem
Portland Eugene Dalles Klamath
FaUs Grande Office
Field Astoria
R ent
$ 30.00 $ 30.00 $ 33.00 $ 43.00 $ 27.00 $ 39.63 $ 37.40 $ 40.75
G roceries-M eat
73.34
60.00
72.00
64.29
63.00
52.43
52.40
68.00
Lights & W ater
6.34
4.25
7.30
5.15
6.00
5.62
6.74
5.25
G arbage
1.00
.75
.75
.80
1.10
.83
.85
.75
F uel
8.67
5.00
9.00
7.57
7.80
8.03
8.60
8.00
Milk
9.34
9.00
10.00
8.78
9.94
4.92
4.76
8.40
Clothing
13.34
10.00
19.00
12.86
14.00
18.02
13.60
12.00
D octor-D entist
10.00
10.00
14.00
10.30
13.50
9.48
7.20
12.50
F u rn iture
11.67
5.00
8.00
10.80
7.80
12.46
13.50
5.00
E ntertainm ent
10.00
8.00
9.41
4.80
13.20
12.00
10.00
B arber-B eauty Shop
3.00
5.00
5.00
5.35
4.23
6.00
4.00
Car O peration
8.34
10.00
14.00
11.07
7.60
14.83
20.00
10.00
C ar Depreciation
6.67
10.00
11.00
10.75
6.00
9.31
9.00
10.00
Insurance
7.00
7.00
9.25
10.72
12.71
9.76
12.40
7.00
Incidentals
10.00
8.00
11.00
18.69
8.07
23.45
14.50
8.00
$195.71 $182.00 $231.30 $229.19 $194.67 $226.20 $218.95 $209.65
♦r,
1/4.W T 172.00*
187.00*
♦Gross average earnings w ithout deductions for taxes, etc.
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
The purpose of personnel manage
ment in any agency, governmental, or
private, is to secure, develop and re
tain employees who are qualified to
achieve standards of competence as
high as available human resources will
permit. Good personnel management
involves among other things, job
classification and the establishment and
maintenance of equitable wage and
salary scales; positive policies and prac
tices in the recruitment, selection,
training, promotion, demotion, trans
fer, discipline, and retirement of per
sonnel; provisions for the hearing of
grievances and appeals from adminis
trative decisions; evaluation of em
ployee efficiency in terms of future
potentialities as well as in terms of past
work; and the stimulation of employee
morale.
— Floyd W. Reeves
19100* 178 22*
In Tacoma, Washington all admin
istrative and clerical employees have
been put on a 5-day week.
SUCCESS HINTS
Live where you can find neighbors
who get things done, who don’t- waste
their time trying to keep up with the
Joneses.
Work with a company where you
will have big men to understudy.
Join a club or organization that is
doing things in the community, whose
members are at the front of the pro
cession.
Work actively, too, in your trade or
professional association.
Keep your old friends; don’t go
high hat. But add new ones—stead
ily—from the ranks of the doers.—
Donald A. Laird in Your Life.