KEYWORKER RATING PATTERNS FOR GOVERNMENT PRINTING AND GRAPHICS ARTS WAGE SCHEDULES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000300140064-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 64
• Content Type: REPORT

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Keyworker Rating Patterns for Government Printing and Graphics Arts Wage Schedules
Criteria New in 1963 Amount Above Journeyman Scale
1. Specialist performing duties above those Keyworkers receive 3% above
required of journeyman workers including journeyman, some positions
equipment adjustment or repair, work on have a double rating of 6%.
extremely valuable tkis
oc, nk match for
documentation, or organizing work assign-
ments involving selection of type, mark-
ing, etc.
2, Working Leaders responsible as "dead" or
in charge to make work assignment, answer
technical questions and spot check for
quality and productiveness work of
journeymen.
3, Working Leader-Planners engaged in mark-
ing work for one or more shifts, allocating
to equipment and processes for timely
completion and'providing supervision outer
those engaged in journeyman or helper.
Keyworkers receive 5% above
journeyman, or the specialist
rate for a significant group
(over 25% of force)
Keyworkers receive 10% above
journeyman,
4. Combinations of two journeymen (Graphic 30? per hour above the rate
Arts Schedule only-- usually in work of the highest paying skill
areas without a foreman in either skill), for journeyman or specialist.
5. Hourly and Annual Rates for typical keyworkers in printing trades and crafts:
Annual
Hourly
Journeyman
3,
Annual
A
l
nnua
Compositor or Letter Pressman
$8112
$3.90
12?
$8361
20?
$8528
Offset Pressman
8340
4.01
13?
8611
21?
8777
Photographer or Negative Cutter
9110.
4.38
14?
9401
22?
9568
Bookbinder
7737
3.72
12?
7987
19?
8132
2nd
Proficiency
Compositor-Platen Pressman
9152
4.40 ,
12?
9401
20?
9568
Combination 'rates are found in photoengraving operations but there are few
specialties that merit other Keyworker premiums above the $4.57 journeyman
rate.
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SUBJECT: Changes in Rate Compositor Keyworker Positions, GP and GA
Schedule
1. In April 1963 all composition keyworker positions 11? above
journeyman were converted to 5% above the journeyman rate in accordance
with an announcement of the Public Printer. A Salary and Wage Division
review of the specialist and supervisory keyworkers resulted in
photography and press determinations for specialist keyworkers only
3% above journeyman and supervisory keyworkers at 51. above journeyman.
The attached notices of frozen rates will inform the five employees
listed below, their positions have been re-evaluated to a 3% above
journeyman keyworker rate in the following schedules:
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Linotype Oper-Repairman PSD/OL GP
Linotype Oper-Pickup PSD/OL GP
Compositor-Platen Press GARB/TSD GA
Compositor-Platen Press GARB/TSD (FF) GA
Compositor-Platen Press GARB/TSD (FF) GA
2. The Director of Personnel at Government Printing Office could
not give us a full official outline of their keyworker pattern when we
conferred with him last April as only two of seven wage negotiations
had been approved in April. When GPO released the 30 June photography
changes in keyworker rates and we compared GPO keyworker rates with
out rate structure we determined photography and other Agency specialists
ratings would be 3% and so advised Printing Services Division and
in TSD.
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Chief, Salary and Wa(DLvision
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