Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — County Officers' Salaries. [ARTICLE]

County Officers' Salaries.

The State Fee and Salary Commission has definitely decided that nothing will be done to increase the salaries of county officers, ex ceptthe increase in salary that will result from a more diligent collection of fees, with the exception of a very few counties in which the natural increase of business justifies it. It has been practically decided to make no change in the remuneration of county commissioners as fixed by the law of the last Legislature. The commission has calculated the amounts that will be received under the plan that will probably be reported so far as it relates to county clerks. The plan which will probably be adopted and reported to the Legislature is to pay each clerk a fixed sala.y of lOceats per capita for the first 10,000 of population in the county and 5 cents per capita for all over that number. The clerk will also receive, as a part of the fixed salary. S3O for each $1,000,000 of tax valuation of the county. In addition to the fixed salary thus determined, he will receive 10 per cent, of all fees collected. On this basis the following table gives present salary, fixed salary as estimated and fixed salary with 10 per cent, of fees collected in Jasper and neighboring countie*. —Com. Estimate.— Present Fixed With 10 Salary- Salary. P.C.A’D. Bentonfl 1,500 fl 1,730 fl 1,883 Carroll 2.100 2,024 2.190 Jasper 1.500 1,564 1,74* Lake 3.000 Newton 1.300 1,300 1,519 Porter 2,900 2.000 2.273 Pulaski 1,600 1,429 1.600 Starke 1.000 1.300 1,425 White 1,900 2,045 2,236