New York State Historical Records Survey Biweekly Payroll

Reverse chronological order by biweekly payroll, then numeric by regional district number, then by county within each district.

This series consists of payroll sheets for administrative, field, and support staff of the Historical Records Survey. There are separate sheets for administrative staff and all other staff. These are generally interfiled except for the period July 1936-October 1938 when the administrative staff payrolls were filed separately (volume 8). There is some overlap and duplication between volumes.

Each payroll covers a two week period, and each page indicates whether the employees listed were "certified" (drawn from relief rolls) or "non-certified" (non-relief). The following information is given about each employee: name; address; title; sex; WPA identification number; employment classification (supervisory, professional, skilled, intermediate, unskilled); number of hours worked; wage rate; and amount paid.

These records were deposited in the State Library by the Historical Records Survey in 1942. They were subsequently transferred to the State Archives as box 13, old collection #550D, accession number -372.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.