University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1984
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Hardest jobs don't pay most Study wants wage review
By United Press International
TOPEKA — An informal study of salaries paid to major state agency heads indicates that the person with the toughest job in state government is far closer than two agency supervisees with far easier jobs, a researcher said.
Lynn Hellebust, editor of the Kansas Legislative Report, this week published an un科学性 study showing wages earned by agency heads often bear little relationship to the difficulty of their jobs. The study found that the Legislature to take a serious look at how such salaries are determined
HELLERUST ASKED A panel of six experienced state employees and
two independent observers to rate the job difficulty of 13 agency or program heads — nine cabinet members and four other executive branch administrators. He declined to name the panelists because he said they had "feel uncomfortable in their jobs if the identities were known."
The panel used a job difficulty rating of one to 10, with 10 representing the most difficult job, based on department size and budget.
Hellebust, former head of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, said that the positions, not the occupants, were rated. But, he said, "as a practical matter," he added, "the commission." Hellebust acknowledged that the
ONE OF THE MOST interesting conclusions reached by the panel is that two agency heads with job ratings of 4.5 and 5.8 are paid more than any other agency head in the survey, including the only one with a job rating of 10.
was unscientific but said it raised good questions nonetheless.
job rating. Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Kansas Board of Regents, was given a job difficulty rating of 4.5. and Education Commissioner Harold Blackburn received a 5.8 rating. Hellebust said. Kopik earns $610,200 and blackburn $64,044.
Blackburn's salary is about $10,000 more than Revenue Secretary Harley Duncan, whose position earned a job rating of 8.3.
A new topographic map of east-central Kansas, which includes the Lawrence area, has been developed by the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.
The map details natural and manmade characteristics of Douglas, Franklin and Osage
KU develops topographical map
counties, said James McCauley,
mapping coordinator for the Kansas Geographical Survey. It also includes portions of Johnson,
Leavenworth, Miami, Shawnee, Wauaeuse and Lyon counties.
Besides two dimensional details, such as roads and towns, McCauley said, the map gives third
dimensional details of land elevation.
He said the map was useful to a variety of people. For example, bicyclists can use it to plan routes, and people shopping for land can use it to exam drainage, he said.
Copies of the map are available for $3.60 each.
Task force created for neglected children
By United Press International
TOPEKA - The chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court has created a task force to find ways to provide neglected and deprived children with safe, home-like environments in which to live while under the state's care.
Chief Justice Alfred Schroeder appointed 17 people, including himself, to the Task Force on Permanency Planning. The panel is charged with studying ways to provide child protection and an environment to live in as possible, said court spokesman Ron Keefero.
Its major objective is to ensure
In addition to proposing possible changes in Kansas law, the task force will study the use of volunteer children's advocates to help courts find a stable environment for children in need of care.
that children in the custody of the state do not drift from home to home or from institution to institution, he said.
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