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TABLE 1.—Municipal Fire-Department Employees in the United States in Selected Occupations, by Salary, July 1, 1938—Continued

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1 Includes 16,119 employees for whom salaries by occupations are not shown separately. For greater detail see Serial No. R. 1301.

The 362 cities other than New York City have been divided into 4 population groups, on the basis of the United States Census of Population for 1930, as follows: Group I includes 12 cities with a population of 500,000 or over; group II, 78 cities of 100,000 and under 500,000; group III, 97 cities of 50,000 and under 100,000; and group IV, 175 cities of 25,000 and under 50,000.

Each receives $840.

Each receives $900.

Includes employees whose salaries range from $552 to $936. Includes employees whose salaries range from $780 to $912. Includes employees whose salaries range from $720 to $900. Includes employees whose salaries range from $4,200 to $12,500. Includes employees whose salaries range from $4,140 to $10,000. 10 Includes employees whose salaries range from $4,056 to $8,000. 11 Includes employees whose salaries range from $4,200 to $6,000. 12 Includes employees whose salaries range from $4,250 to $4,833.

About 4 percent of all employees were not tabulated in a specific occupational group. Their work ranged from carrying messages and cleaning floors to electrical engineering; consequently, their salaries varied over an extremely wide range. However, most of these employees were engaged in clerical and maintenance work.

Salary in Relation to Size and Location of City

The tendency of the larger cities to pay higher salaries than the smaller places is illustrated in the upper part of the chart on page 178. In each of the three groups of cities with populations of less than 500,000 the greatest concentration was in the $500 interval from $1,550 to $2,050. On July 1, 1938, this range included 59 percent of the employees in the group of smallest cities, and 47 and 51 percent, respectively, in the next two groups of cities. In contrast, 63 percent of the employees in cities of 500,000 or more, exclusive of New York City, received salaries between $2,050 and $2,550. The percentage of employees receiving $1,550 or less showed a consistent decrease, from 13 percent in the smallest cities to 1 percent in the group of largest cities and in New York City.

The large proportion of employees in New York City receiving salaries of $2,550 or more demonstrates the marked contrast between the salary scale for this city and those for other cities. Fifty-nine percent of the salaries in the New York City department were at least $2,550, whereas in the other cities the proportion ranged from 25 percent in those with populations of 500,000 or more to 5 percent in cities of 25,000 to 50,000. A more detailed analysis of the relation between salaries and size of city is given in table 2.

Section B of the chart shows distributions of salaries in the nine geographic regions, beginning at the top with the regions paying the lowest salaries. The first five regions showed a marked concentration in the $500 range from $1,550 to $2,050; the percentages ranged between 76 in the West South Central and 58 in the West North Central cities. In the East North Central region the percentages receiving more than $1,550 were more evenly distributed among the three upper salary ranges shown in the chart than in any other region; 39 percent received from $1,550 to $2,050, 38 percent from $2,050 to $2,550, and 22 percent $2,550 or more. The remaining three geographic areas had the maximum concentration of salaries between $2,050 and $2,550-63 percent in New England, 60 in the Middle Atlantic cities, and 66 in the Pacific cities.

PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF

MUNICIPAL FIRE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES

BY SALARY, SIZE OF CITY AND GEOGRAPHIC REGION

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These interregional relationships are to some extent the result of the distribution of large cities among the 9 sections of the country. Only 2 of the 12 cities with populations of 500,000 or more in 1930 are situated in any of the 5 regions at the top of the chart-Baltimore in the South Atlantic division and St. Louis in the West North Central division. The regions ranking higbest in terms of salary scales in effect on July 1, 1938, contained the following cities of 500,000 or more: Boston in New England; Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh in the Middle Atlantic States; Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee in the East North Central States; and Los Angeles and San Francisco in the Pacific States.

Restricting the comparison to cities of 25,000 to 50,000 gives a better indication of the influence of more strictly regional factors on salaries. When cities of this size are arranged on the same basis as all cities in the chart, the regional ranking is as follows: West South Central, South Atlantic, East South Central, West North Central, East North Central, Pacific, Mountain, New England, and Middle Atlantic. Even in this comparison the effect of size of city is an indirect factor in determining salary rates, because salary scales in smaller cities within the metropolitan areas of large cities frequently are influenced by the salary rates in the large cities.

• Although Washington, D. C., had 663,091 inhabitants according to the 1940 census, its 1930 population of 486,869 caused it to be classed with cities of 100,000 and under 500,000.

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