Word: white-collar
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...these benefits, the federal worker puts up with inflexible work rules that hamper his initiative and a rigid salary system that limits his ambition. The 15-grade scale, which covers the overwhelming bulk of white-collar civil servants, runs from G51 for messengers, who start at $4,125, to GS-15 for program managers, who begin at $22,885. A medical aide (GS-2) makes $4,125 to start, and a typist (GS-3) $5,212. There are virtually no merit increases, and the periodic raises within each category are small. It would take 18 years for a worker...
Including a recently approved 6% across-the-board raise, the pay of the typical white-collar civil servant has been increased by about 55% in the past decade. To halt what had been an exodus of managers and key technicians from Government, salaries for the so-called supergrades, GS-16 to GS-18, have been raised as much as 80%. A GS-18 employee, typically a division chief in a department, earned $18,500 in 1960; today the pay is $35,505. Many private employers consider the top rates to be outrageously high. They complain that they cannot afford...
...revisionist and failure." For the time being, the Dubčeks reportedly plan to return to Trencin, in their native Slovakia, where Alexander's 80-year-old mother has a house. There, the ex-leader of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party is expected to be assigned to a white-collar job in a factory...
...Middle Atlantic: The armies of office and service workers are in no danger of idleness, but manufacturing payrolls are starting to shrink. A general nervousness is in the air. In Delaware, a prosperous white-collar state, a decline in Du Pont profits that began last year is expected to force reductions in state spending-most likely for educational television and enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. The Pennsylvania government had to extend an extra $15 million in aid to Philadelphia to avert a shutdown of the city's schools...
Until now, the blue-collar worker has carried the brunt. Last month white-collar unemployment showed its first significant jump, from 3.8% to 4.1%. Easter-season retail hiring was lower than usual, and defense and aerospace layoffs began to hit engineers. One relieving statistic: last month black unemployment rose slowly (from 7% to 7.1%). Over the past year, the black unemployment rate has been rising only about half as fast as the overall rate. The "last-hired, first-fired" pattern may be fading...