[PAY RAISE]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00211R000700220019-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: January 1, 1958
• Content Type: BULL

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PAY RAISE
The Federal pay bill has now become law,
and our employees are to receive a well-
deserved pay raise, retroactive to January 12,
1958. Every effort is being made to resolve
the problems inherent in processing the new
pay scales, and specific information will be
published as soon as possible. It is hoped that
the increases will be reflected in salary checks
by mid-July; the retroactive portion will be
paid separately, and the target date here is
also the middle of next month.
The old and new rates are shown below for
purposes of comparison.
Grade
G8- 1:
Old
......
2,690
2,775
2,860
2,945
3,030
3,115
3,200
New
......
2,960
3,055
3,150
3,245
3,340
3,435
3,530
QS-2.
Old
......
2,980
3,045
3,130
3,215
3,300
3,385
3,470
New
......
3,255
3,350
3,445
3,540
3,635
3,730
3,825
as-3..
Old
3,175
3,260
3,345
3,430
3,515
3,600
3,685
New
3,495
3,590
3,685
3,780
3,875
3,970
4,065
GS- 4:
Old
3,415
3,500
3,585
3,670
3,755
3,840
3,925
New
3,755
3,850
3,945
4,040
4,135
4,230
4,325
as- Old 5:
......
3,870
3,805
3,940
4,075
4,210
4,345
4,480
New
......
4,040
4,190
4,340
4,490
4,640
4,790
4,940
GS- 6:
Old
.....
4,080
4,215
4,350
4,485
4,620
4,755
4,890
New
.....
4,490
4,640
4,790
4,940
5,090
5,240
5,390
GS- 7:
Old
......
4,525
4,660
4,795
4,930
5,065
5,200
5,335
New
......
4,980
5,130
5,280
5,430
5,580
5,730
5,880
GOld '
......
4,970
5,105
5,240
5,375
5,510
5,645
5,780
New
......
5,470
5,620
5,770
5,920
8,070
8,220
8,370
GS- 9:
Old
......
5,440
5,575
5,710
5,845
5,980
8,115
6,250
New
.....
5,985
6,135
6,285
6,435
8,585
6,735
6,885
GS-10:
Old
......
5,915
6,050
6,185
8,320
6,455
8,590
6,725
New
......
6,505
6,655
6,805
6,955
7,105
7,255
7,405
GS-11:
Old
......
6,390
6,605
8,820
7,035
7,250
7,465
? New ......
7,030
7,270
7,510
7,750
7,990
8,230
GS-12:
Old
......
7,570
7,785
8,000
8,215
8,430
8,645
New
......
8,330
8,570
8,810
9,050
9,290
9,530
GS-13:
Old
......
8,990
9,205
9,420
9,635
9,850
10,085
New
. ....
9,890
10,130
10,370
10,610
10,850
11,090
GS-14:
Old
.....
10,320
10,535
10,750
10,965
11,180
11,395
New
.....
11,355
11,595
11,835
12,075
12,315
12,555
GS-15:
Old
11,610
11,880
12,150
12,420
12,690
New
12,770
13,070
13,370
13,670
13,970
GS-16:
Old
...... 12,900
13,115
13,330
13,545
13,760
New
. ... 14,190
14,430
14,670
14,910
15,150
GS-17:
Old
...... 13,975
14,190
14,405
14,620
14,835
New
...... 15,375
15,615
15,855
16,095
16,335
GS-18:
old
...... 16,000
New
...... 17,500
The eligibility of contract personnel for the
pay incr ' the new law is out-
lined in ontract Personnel,
Applicability o ossl a Legislative Pay In-
creases to Contract Personnel.
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CHANGES IN GEHA EMERGENCY
TRAVEL PLAN
Since 1 April 1957, Government Employees
Health Association, Inc. (GEHA) has offered
an "Emergency Travel Plan," under which
round-trip transportation costs are paid for
employees when travel is necessitated by the
death or very serious illness of relatives or
other named persons.
GEHA has announced that, effective 1 July
1958, there will be a 43 percent increase in
rates and. a decrease in coverage under this
plan. The following new rates, in dollars,
will apply :
%
Age of
Named Persons
1st Named
Person
Each Additional
Named Person
Old
New
Old
New
0 through 49
28.00
40.00
12.00
17.00
50 through 64
35.50
50.00
19.50
28.00
65 through 69
43.00
60.00
27.00
39.00
Family Plan
Old Rate New Rate
50.00 72.00
The coverage under the plan is decreased
by a 25 percent coinsurance clause. Amend-
ment No. 2, dated 1 April 1957, to the GEHA
booklet, "Your Health and Life Insurance Pro-
gram," should be changed by revising the sec-
ond sentence of paragraph one, titled "Ex-
planation of Coverage," to read as follows:
"The Company will pay 75 percent of the
actual transportation cost of the purchaser
or designated person . . . . "
The above changes will not affect contracts
now in effect, or those being renewed, or new
applications received before 1 July 1958. We
regret that we cannot extend the time allowed
for applications under the earlier rates and
coverage, but the underwriter will allow no
exceptions.
Despite the higher rates and decreased cov-
erage, certification will still be required from
the employee that the person or persons
named in the contract have never had cancer
and have not had a heart attack or other seri- 2 5x 1
ous illness in the four months preceding the
date of application.
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MANAGEMENT TOOLS .
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RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND OUR SPACE
PROBLEM
Support Bulletin 8 for January-February
1958 offered several suggestions for relieving
today's space problems through better use of
filing equipment and supplies. Here are some
additional tips.
Do you periodically transfer noncurrent
records - in the field, to inactive storage in
vaults or secured areas - and in. headquar-
ters, to the Records Center? It will pay you
to do so, for bulk storage of essential but sel-
dom used records reduces equipment, space,
and clerical costs. These benefits are meas-
urable, tangible dollar savings to the Organi-
zation. For instance, in headquarters, Rec-
ords Center storage has saved over 13/4 mil-
lion dollars in space and equipment costs and
an estimated 12/3 million dollars in salaries.
EQUIPMENT AND SPACE COSTS TO STORE
4 DRAWERS (8 CU. FT.) OF RECORDS
FOR FIVE YEARS
Oe2S'- sa/e
/
RECORDS CENTER
10 dollars and
40 cents
SAFE CABINET
578 dollars
Your records at the center will be available
to you at any time. The return of a record
to you within 24 hours after requesting it is
routine. In an emergency you can get a file
within two hours.
Before filing record material, do you pull
off and destroy nonessential papers such as
routing slips, transmittal memos, courtesy
copies, and copies of superseded drafts?
Do you periodically cut off your files, say,
at the end of a calendar or fiscal year? You
should; otherwise they'll keep growing year
after year, making reference to your current
files much more difficult and increasing the
volume of noncurrent material that should be
transferred to bulk storage or destroyed.
Do you periodically review your files for "dead
wood" such as ...
? Files on discon-
tinued functions ...
? Totally inactive
? Obsolete or super-
seded reference ma-
terial and working
papers ...
Look up your Records Control Schedule.
It's your "housecleaning" authorization. If
you lack an approved schedule, see your Rec-
ords Officer or Chief of Registry.
In looking for ways to gain more space don't
overlook those file drawers used for miscel-
laneous material. Those catchalls can be
great space wasters.
For instance, some people may still store
their work papers overnight in regular desk
trays. If so, they're using about five times as
much room as they should.
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The photographs below show how much
space can be gained when Organization over-
night storage boxes are used instead of regular
trays.
These storage boxes also prevent contents
from spilling and papers from getting lost
behind file drawers.
Books, periodicals, blank forms, office sup-
plies, and other miscellany also rob you of
valuable file space. Here are some tips to
help prevent this:
Centralize reference books and publica-
tions within components. If they are un-
classified, store them on book shelves.
Return books, periodicals, and other docu-
ments when they have served their pur-
poses.
Depend more on Organization reference
services instead of building up personal
libraries that may never be used.
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Consolidate office supplies.
Store personal belongings and nonofficial
materials in desks or supply cabinets.
KEEP IN MIND THAT FOR EVERY TEN
SAFE CABINETS IN USE YOU LOSE THE
AVERAGE SPACE FOR ONE EMPLOYEE.
COULD MEAN
THIS . . .
SUPERVISORS' SELF-HELP PROGRAM
A leading management association recently
stressed a point that is of interest to every
supervisor in this Organization.
Their position was that top management
and first-line supervisors must recognize, for
their own benefit, that an organization's sug-
gestion awards program is a management tool
and is never to be considered an employee
fringe benefit. A good suggestion program
is good business and indicates good manage-
ment. It cuts costs and improves production.
No organization gives an award - the sug-
gester earns it for good, useable ideas.
The mutual benefits realized from sugges-
tions favor the organization rather than the
employees. Supervisors particularly benefit
by improvement suggestions and they help
themselves when they promote the program
among their employees.
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SUGGESTION AWARDS PROGRAM
Another thirteen Organization employees
are sharing 1,165 dollars in Suggestion Awards
because they figured out ways to improve our
operations and facilities. Four of these sug-
gestions are outstanding achievements.
Another first-quality suggestion was a de-
vice for modifying microfilm cameras to per-
mit the automatic cutting of Xerox prints.
This fine piece of thinking and excellent pres-
entation of the solution to the problem, in-
cluding a drawing, helped evaluators and sped
construction of a test model. A tangible sav-
ing of 2,500 dollars is estimated for the first
year this device is used, plus other intangible
benefits. The suggester was awarded 100 dol-
lars and his suggestion was referred to the
Government Printing Office and other inter-
ested Government agencies for possible adop-
tion, which should earn an additional award.
A second successful suggestion, which had
been carefully thought through, included two
proposals involving the reorganization of an
office into geographical areas and the revamp-
ing of corresponding processing procedures.
The plan was adopted and the benefits in-
cluded : increased development of proficiency
in area knowledge and language; improved
career development and rotation for special-
ists; and efficiency of operations. Both work-
ers and customers have shared in the intangi-
ble benefits derived and, as a result, this sug-
gester was awarded 100 dollars.
In the Medical Staff, a proposal for a new
indexing procedure for X-ray films was tied
in with an addressograph plate operation be-
ing installed by that staff. This timely pro-
posal was incorporated with the staff's orig-
inal plan. The 1,775 dollars saved in man-
hours and 385 dollars saved in supplies earned
the suggester an 80-dollar award.
A man in a field station faced a bad situa-
tion one day. His Manual of Instructions ex-
plained how two men should handle some deli-
cate equipment to hermetically seal it in a
container. Since he was alone, he improvised
and got the job done by himself. He thought
further on the problem and devised a new
gadget with universally available materials
and proposed to headquarters that the Man-
ual be revised and that the new one-man
method be adopted. His method delivered
more satisfactory package than the first and
also saved the time of one man. For a tangi-
ble saving of 400 dollars and moderate in-
tangible benefits, the suggester was awarded
75 dollars.
Smaller awards were given for other sug-
gestions that were of sufficient benefit to the
Organization to deserve recognition.
One suggester proposed that analysts pre-
paring new index cards on routine material
include a small flag to indicate that the new
material adds nothing to existing informa-
tion - thereby saving a researcher's efforts in
requesting and reading nonproductive items.
Another suggester proposed microfilming a
main index file. The problem was presented
so clearly and concisely that the evaluators
were made aware of a little-suspected situa-
tion. Although the suggester's proposal was
not adopted as recommended, it triggered so
extensive a reform in procedures that the
Committee voted him an award.
Another suggester simply proposed that the
originator of certain cables should number
them and make indexing recommendations
because of his intimate familiarity with the
cable content. While this does not apply
throughout the Organization, it was a bene-
ficial suggestion in a limited area, and won
the suggester an award.
A device to support one leg of a microfilm
camera tripod to allow filming of Kardex trays
brought one suggester an award; while an im-
proved catch on a camera copy board, which
permitted the clamp to slide shut, brought
another.
Letters of Appreciation went to each of
three suggesters for: (1) a preprinted list
of unusual words commonly used in the :
Graphics Office, which speeded up graphics
art work; (2) clipping for retention files un-
marked periodicals rather than those contain-
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