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Show : Salt Lake ‘ a“ $f ak ¢ ue alt ne | Morning 25,u1963 ib | C—rJuly Ra Ds — Thursday . City , Utah : ami a: Te ‘ae | Page One qe econd ation’s Ln Government J O J € ‘a i OnlyRatiAlao, ska Study Finds | su ww! 102 Sets __ In '|by *larder |a ~ Utah has governm States, aa ae - THE 50 states ates h has ONLY ALASKA AMONG . lee Se Almost anyone should have been able to tell just reports.” Utah Foundation = from the | i 2 higher 2 1962, : about 74% per cent of Utah’ss October, ; n | Summer Mark. i populati proporti portion of its pulation employed oe ok in the continental United F | THE UTAH H FOUNDATION, research day populat i of fore-. so far this summer in Salt Lake City—-102 degrees. ° _ AND A NUMBER cities in Utah of other sweltered under 100 or more tempera- : gov ernmental the report Wednewiay. organization, issued amount head~ mopping needed, but Wednesday was the hottest i |)was working for sgme: governme © as large again as halfntal gainseeueyet eneral: s\or Wiese local—a percentage iabout an i: i | ;| tional average of 5 per cent. A PRIVATE ture readings. Among them were: Wen- over and Green River, 100 ONE OF FOUR non-agricultural workers in| grees maximum; Moab, NEARLY Nationally, the ratio is|. degrees, and St. George, Utah is employed by government. degrees—hottest reportone government worker for every six (16 and six-tenths per| 10§ Cee bee ae ingstation in the state. — cent) non-farm workers. ~ During October, 1962, 72,629' persons. in. Utah were in = an in- government employ — crease of 23 per.cent from the ear-|. reported 10. years 58,922 ee lier. NOTABLY FOR THE nation jas a whole, government employment rose by 33 per cent during the decade—from 6,922,540 in 1952 to 9,196,556 in 1962. A relatively large number of | ‘|federal civilian employes is a -|major factor in the high rate -l\of government employment in} . | Utah. | FEDERAL employment ; in ‘Utah is equal to 303 for every 10,000 compared persons, with a U.S. rate of 128 per 10,000. However, federal © -employ- Utah” Bas® actually ment:.in» dropped by 12 per cent in the to |past decade — from 33,319 f | 29,278. The 1952 figure reflects Withe large number civilian of jobs in Utah's federal defense | installations during the Korean ae : War. FEDERAL civilian employ- ment throughout the nation de- clined-by less than two per cent '| during the 10-year period. Education claims the largest govnumber of state and local In ernment employes in Utah. equiOctober, 20,210 (full-time cent valent) persons or 60 per govof the Utah state and local in. ernment work force were |public education. OF THESE, about 15,000 s were employed by local school tand 5,000 in the state-suppor ed colleges and universities. In 1962 there were 209 state and local educational employes (full-time equivalent) per 000 population in Utah. the was 40 per cent above average of 147 educational <*: : = ployes per 10,000. THE CHIEF higher Utah reason 10,This U.S. em- for the percentage is college Utah’s relatively large lment and public school enrol compared with other states. ing October, 1962, total “Dur empayroll for state and local 5,s in the state was $14,31 ploye 2,900 in 500 compared to $5,45 ase in {952. This was an incre paystate and local government ared roll of 163 per cent comp entire with 131 per cent for the decade. nation during the Poe Ra e oe . “™ or ie ee ae se een State “on z Be ‘ vel oe - | |
