CAREERS IN FORESTRY 9 



Rates of Compensation 



The force on the national forests comprises a number of grades. In 

 general, the base salary ranges are as follows: Professional assistant (junior 

 forester), $3,670 to $4,480; district forest ranger, $5,440 to $7,465; staff 

 officer, $6,390 to $8,645.; assistant forest supervisor, $6,390 to $8,645; 

 forest supervisor, $7,570 to $10,065. Similarly, the range of salaries in higher 

 administrative positions are in keeping with the responsibilities. When 

 Government living quarters are furnished, a salary deducton is made. The 

 amount varies with the value and kind of accommodations, but ordinarily 

 is from $200 to $600 annually. 



Public Works Programs 



The work of the Forest Service was considerably expanded from 1933 to 

 1942 by the emergency relief and recovery activities. Forest work for 

 unemployed youth brought into the forests many thousands of men in 

 Civilian Conservation Corps camps. With these activities came a demand 

 for foresters and men otherwise qualified for field supervisory positions. 

 Hundreds of young men recently graduated from professional schools found 

 opportunities which offered an immediate chance to gain both a living and 

 valuable forestry experience. The social and economic value of forest work 

 is large, and as an outlet for unemployed labor forestry is now well recog- 

 nized. Public works programs in forest conservation, or greater recognition 

 of the need to have this work done as a regular continuing public activity, 

 may broaden the field for the employment of foresters as directing and 

 technical personnel. 



Forest Service Organization 



Organization of the Federal Forest Service now includes 26 divisions. 

 These are correlated into 6 groups. Some are fiscal and facilitating divi- 

 sions in which the nature of the work calls for training entirely different 

 from forestry, although forestry-school graduates with special aptitudes or 

 experience often find opportunities in these divisions. Men with profes- 

 sional forestry training are employed, in the main, in work that may be 

 grouped under the administration of national forests, forest research, or 

 State and private forest cooperation. Certain other phases of Federal 

 forestry work, such as the guayule rubber and other emergency projects 

 undertaken during the war, and various phases of extension, information, 

 and education work, allied to, or closely coordinated with the activities 

 of one or more of the divisions, have also provided employment for many 

 professional foresters. 



The Forest Service employs a permanent force of approximately 8,500. 

 Of these, about 2,500 are professional foresters, and the remainder clerical, 

 administrative, or custodial employees and protection and construction 

 forces. About two-thirds are employed on the national forests as super- 

 visors, assistant spervisors, rangers, etc., and the remainder are engaged in 

 administrative, scientific, and clerical work at the Washington and regional 

 headquarters, the Forest Products Laboratory, and the forest and range ex- 

 periment stations, or in State and private cooperation work in various parts 



