TABLE 3.-Civil employees by sex in the executive departments and independen establishments of the United States Government service on Dec. 31, 1936, and June 30, 1937-Continued TABLE 4.-Permanent and temporary civil employees in the executive branch of the United States Government service, Nov. 11, 1918, to June 30, 1937 TABLE 5.-Permanent and temporary civil employees in the executive branch of the United States Government service, by months, July 1935 to June 1937 1 Data on number of employees refer to the number of employees having Federal appointments on the last day of the month. CIVIL EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE UNITED GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 1937 1 These statistics represent a consolidation of reports received from more than 60 different Government establishments, and cover more than 800,000 Federal employees. The figures are necessarily subject to some revision when changes from the original figures are reported by any Government establishment. There were 827,701 employees in the executive branch of the United States Government during the month of October 1937, a decrease of 8,892 since September. The October pay roll was $122,944,783 as compared to $125,926,964 a month ago, a decline of over $2,980,000 or 2.4 percent. The decrease in employment in the District of Columbia was 616 and outside the District of Columbia, 8,276, bringing the total number of employees in the District of Columbia to 110,812 and the total outside the District to 716,889 (table 1). Of the total of 827,701 in the service, 70,178 were "force-account" employees (employes engaged in construction projects, such as building, naval-vessel, or road construction), while 730,137 were full-time employees and 27,386 were parttime employees engaged in other activities. For the month, the compensation of part-time employees averaged $68. Significant seasonal decreases in employment were reported by the following agencies: The Department of Agriculture, 1,995, chiefly in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and the Forest Service, and the Department of the Interior; 743, mainly in the National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Alaska Road Commission. Sizeable decreases in employment also occurred in the Post Office Department of 1,602 and in the Works Progress Administration of 1,452 (table 3). The decrease in the Post Office Department was principally in substitute employment, while the decline in administrative employees in the Works Progress Administration was primarily due to a consolidation of field offices. 1 All employment data in this report refer to employees on the pay roll with pay during the last pay-roll period of the month. Increases in employment during the month were reported in the Department of Commerce of 555 employees, in the Railroad Retirement Board of 266, and in the Social Security Board of 247. Of the total employees in the service during October, 67,568, or 8.2 percent, were administrative employees paid from funds provided by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 (table 4). Civil Employment and pay rolls in the executive branch of the United States Government for the months of June through October 1937, are shown in table 2. TABLE 1.—Civil employees in the executive branch of the United States Government, September and October 1937 TABLE 2.-Civil employment and pay rolls in the Executive branch of the United States Government, June through October 1937 TABLE 3.-Civil employees in the executive departments and independent establishments of the United States Government, October 1937 Substitute employment is converted to a full-time basis and included as a part of the regular employment in the Post Office Service. 'Not included in September report. Employees engaged in Civilian Conservation Corps work in the various departments are as follows: War. 16,577; Interior, 7,873; Agriculture, 19,971; Commerce, 14; Labor, 8. This report does not include 312,273 enrolled personnel or 6,224 military personnel in the Civilian Conservation Corps. |