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PEDEKAL WORKS AGENCY
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GENERAL ORDER NO. 1
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By virtue of ana pursuant to the authority vested in me By
the provisions of subsection (a) of Section 15 of the Emergency F.eliot
Appropriation Act of 1900, approved June 30, 1939, (Public Resolution
Ho. 24-76th Congress) I hereby establish the following schedule of
monthly earnings.
The schedule of monthly earnings applicable to any-county
shall be based upon the 1930 population of the largest municipality
within the county, in accordance with the following schedule: except
that the schedule of monthly earnings applicable to counties in
which the 1930 population of the largest municipality was 100,000 or
more shall, be applicable to the entire area included within the fol¬
lowing metropolitan districts as such districts are defined by the
fifteenth Census of the United States - 1S30: Baltimore; Boston;
Buffalo-Niagara; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Detroit; Kansas City,
Kansas-Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angelec; NiLvaukec; Ninreapoiis-
St. Paul; Hew York City-Northeastern Hew Jersey; PMlr.d.lpnia; Pittsburgh
Providence, Rhode Island-Pali River-Hew Bedford, Massachusetts; St. Louis
San Prancisco-OnkLnnd; Scranton-Uilkes Barre; Washington, D. C.
SCHEDULE OP MONTHLY EARN!HIS
Area
Wave Class
Coun t i cs in r.rhich
the 1930 popula¬
tion of tne largest
muni.e.ipr 11 ty was: _
Unskilled Unskilled Inter-
" "A" iriediatf
100,000 and. over $o2.00
25,000 to 100,000 48.10
5,00^ to 25,000 42.90
Under 5,000 39.00
100,000 and over $52.00
25,000 to 100,000 48.10
5,000 to 25,000 46.80
Under 5,000 44.20
100,000 and over $46.80
25,000 to 100,000 42.90
5,000 to 25,000 36.40
Undor 5,000 31.20
Wage Region I
$57.20
52.00
4 8.10
42. yO
Wage Region I
$57.20
-52.00
50.70
4 9.40
.70
48.10
48.30
35.10
$68.90
62.40
57.20
52.00
$63.90
62.40
61.10
59. CO
Wage Region III
$61.10
57.2,0
48.10
42.90
Profession,■
and
Skilled Technical
$89.70
si; 90
74.10
6 7.60
$89.70
31.90
79.30
76.70
$7Q.35>
74.10
62.4-0
54.60
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54.50
76.70
68.90
$94.90
34,50
51.90
73.00
$81.90
75.40
65.00
55.90
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Wage Region I includes: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia,
Illinois, xndiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Kansas, Massachusetts, MicMgon,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Hew Hampshire, K:w Jersey, How "fork, forth
Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania., Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, 'Vest
Virginia, Wisconsin.
Wage Region II includes: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming,
Wage Region III includes: Alabama, Arkansas, Plorida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee,* Toms, Virginia.
Certified Trainees Assigned to Hnusohol.tl Workers Training
Projects. The monthly earnings annlic.oble to this class of work shall be
fifty per cent (50)0 of the scho&uio of mbnthly earnings applicable to
the Unskilled VB" wage class in the locality in which the Household
Workers Training Project is being operated.
Territories and Island ?osse-ssions
Professional
Unskilled Unskilled Inter- and
"3" "A" mediate Skilled Technical
Alaska $52.00 $57.2,0 $68.90 $69.70 $94.90
Puerto Rico 19.50 22.10 27.30 35.10 26.40
Virgin Islands 19,50 22.10 27.30 35.10 26.40
Hawaii
All Islands exccnt
Oahu 36.40 40.30 48.10 62.40 65.00
Ieland of Oohu 42.90 43.10 57.20 74.10 75.40
Except as otherwise provided by regulations of the Work Projects
Administration the earnings of all persons engaged upon projects financed
in whole or in part from funds appropriated by the Emergency Relief Appro¬
priation Act of 1939 to the Work Projects Administration or prior Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts shall be on a monthly basis in accordance with the
Schedule uf Monthly Earnings established by this general- order.
The earnings of persons engaged upon such orojocts shall differ
according to tab various classes of work, namely, Unskilled "3!!^ Unskilled."A",
Intermediate, Skilled, and Professional and Tochnioal, as prescribed in
the Schedule of Monthly Era':.dry
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Tnc Schedule of Monthly Earnings prescribed herein shall become
effective September 1, 1939, Payment for work performed prior to Septem¬
ber 1, 1939, shall bo paid in accordance with the Schedule of Monthly
Earnings in effect prior to that date. Payment for work performed subse¬
quent to August 31, 1939, shall be in accordance with the Schedule of
Monthly Earnings sot forth heroin.
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This General Order shall supersede and rescind Administrative
Order No, 67 of the Works Progress Administration dated April 11, 1939,
and shall rescind on the effective date of this General Order .all adjust¬
ments to the Schedule of Monthly Earnings which have "been authorised
on the basis of contiguity, redefinition of regions, adjustments v/ithin
the range of ten per cent, and specific adjustments for individual
projects.
Work Projects
Approved August 15, 1939
Effective Date September 1, 1939
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