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), $4,345 to $5,355; district forest ranger, $6,435 to $8,860; staff 
officer, $7,560 to $10,255; assistant forest supervisor, $8,955 to $10,255; 
forest supervisor, $8,955 to $13,510. Similarly, the salaries in higher ad- 
ministrative positions are in keeping with the responsibilities. When Gov- 
ernment living quarters are furnished, a salary deduction is made. ‘The 
amount varies with the value and kind of accommodations, but ordinarily 
is from $500 to $1,000 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 29 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 
srouped 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 16,000. 
Of these, over 4,000 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 supervisors, 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 
