Hero are the jobs paving' $12,000 or
more lo employes of Norlh Carolina.
By HOLWD G1DUZ
The spiraling cost of living and of
public services is reflected in a newly-
compiled list of North Carolina state
employees with salaries in excess of
SI 2.000 a year.
In 1956 The State published a list
of the 50 top salaries on the state
payroll. It showed a spread from $19,-
998 for a University of North Caro¬
lina professor down to SI 3.000 for a
professor in the UNC Division of
Health Affairs.
As of Sept. I. 1960. the same ‘‘top
50" totem pole carried a $25,000 fig¬
ure for the governor at the top and a
SI 5.500 tab for a UNC professor in
50th place at the bottom.
In more general terms this means
that four years ago the average yearly
pay check for this blue-ribbon group
of tax-paid salaried help was SI 5.330.
whereas today it’s SI 6.540.
In 1956 exactly half of these big
50 salaries were paid to state em¬
ployees living in Chapel Hill. But the
Chapel Hillians had the ‘‘little half
of the aggregate total of $766,500 that
the "top 50” drew then, since only
S355.617 of it was paid out in the
University community.
The totting up of this group four
years later shows a gross increase of
only about $15,000 — or an annual
paid-out sum in Chapel Hill of $370,-
000 in round numbers.
As you might expect, education and
medical experts for the state's institu¬
tions of higher learning account for a
plurality of the five-figure public pay¬
roll — a tribute to Tar Hcclia's con¬
ception of what public services arc the
most valuable.
This holds true, too. on the com¬
pilation of all state employees with
51 2,000-plus yearly salaries as of last
Sept. 1. Thirty-seven per cent of the
221 persons on this list — that is, 82
of ’em. arc with the University or are
state employees living in Chapel Hill.
THE STATE. January 7. 1961
The whole kaboodle is currently
drawing S3. 300.000 a year out of the
Tar Heel public treasury, or an aver¬
age of just a shade under SI 5,000
apiece.
The change in relative position of
the "top 50" list came about as a re¬
sult of the increase in the governor's
salary plus expenses to $25,000. At
the last tabulation he received Si 5.000
plus $5,000 expenses, which left a
UNC professor with $19,998 as a
$4,998 salary superior to the Gover¬
nor. The faculty staffer, a world-
renowned specialist who could earn
far more in private industry, is now
up slightly lo $20,600.
Regulations in the University Di¬
vision of Health Affairs permit some
staff members to earn up to the equal
of their state salaries in private prac¬
tice. But few are able to do so be¬
cause of the press of their regular
duties. So while even their state salaries
are not diminutive, these
aren’t yet
competitive with the income of their
private colleagues.
Title
Salary
Governor
Superintendent. Hospitals
S25.000
Board Control
22.000
Professor. U.N.C.
President. Consolidated
20.600
U. N. C.
20.000
Dean. U. N. C.
19.000
Administrator. U. N. C.
1 9.000
Hospital Superintendent
Professor. U. N. C.
Director. Hoard Higher
1 9.000
18.100
Education
Director. State Ports
18. IKK)
Authority
Training School
18.000
Superintendent
18.000
Director, Sanatoria System
I8.0(MI
Hospital Superintendents < 3 )
18.000
Deans. U. N. C.
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Research Director. Hospital
17,500
Board Control
17.2(81
State Health Officer
Vice-Presidents. Consolidated
17.000
U. N. C. (3)
17.0(8)
Hospital Administrator
Chancellors. U. N. C.
17,000
Branches
(3»
17.000
Deans. N. C. Slate
College (3) $ 1 7,000
Professor. N. C. Slate College 17.000
Deans. U. N. C. (2) 16.500
Chief Justice. Supreme Court 16,500
Associate Justices, Supreme
Court (6) 16.000
Deans, U. N. C. (2) 16.000
Professors. U. N. C. (2) 16.000
Dean. N. C. State College 16,000
Professor, N. C. State College 15,800
Superintendents,
Sanatoria (3) 15.672
Professor. U. N. C. 15.520
Professor. N. C. State College 1 5.500
Professor. U. N. C. 15.200
Assistant to Chancellor,
N. C. State 15.000
Director of Highways 15.000
Professors, ami Deans.
Greater University
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15.000
Professor. U. N. C. 14,860
Medical Director. Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Program 14,600
Director, Department of
Administration 14,500
State Budget Officer 14,500
Commissioner. Department
of Revenue 14,500
Commissioner. Department of
Motor Vehicles 14.500
Director. Department of
C. & D. 14.500
College President 14,500
Program Director. N. C. State 14.500
Assistant Administrator.
U. N. C. 14,500
Professors. Greater
U. N. C.
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14,500
Program Directors, N. C.
State (2) 14.280
Physicians. Mental
Hospitals <3) 14.200
Professor. N. C. State 14.200
Professor. U. N. C. 14.109
Director. State Lab of Hygiene 14.004
Superintendents. Training
Schools (2) 14.000
Deans & Professors. Greater
U. N. C. (15) 14.000
Professor. N. C. State 13.693
Program Director. N. C. State 13.600
Physicians. Mental
Hospitals (4) 13,600
Professors. U. N. C. <2) 13.500
Superintendent of Public
Instruction 13.500
Attorney General 13,500
College President 13,500
Deans and Professors.
Greater U. N. C.
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13.500
Professor. N. C. State 13,335
Professor. U. N. C. 13.300
Professor. N. C. State 13.200
Professor. U. N. C. 13.050
Director, Prison Department 13.000
Director. E. S. C. 13.000
College Presidents (2) 13.000
Professors and Deans.
Greater U. N. C. < 16) 13.000
Physicians. Mental
Hospitals
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13.000
Banking Commissioner 13.000
Division Director. Board
of Health 12.844
Professors, Greater
U. N. C. (2) 12.800
Chairman. U. N. C. 12.750
Professors, Greater
U. N. C. (2) 12.600
Physicians. Mental
Hospitals (7) 12.600
Assistant Director, Highways 12.552
Chairman. Utilities
Commission 12.500
Secretary. Retirement System 12.500
College President 12.500
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