too This salary system meant that foreigners became the highest paid group of civil servants. When one considers the fact that the Swedish dsmt was valued at 32 kopecks (1 ruble=100 kopecks),-®® it is clear that the foreign personnel in the Russian colleges received even more than their Swedish counterparts. A foreign councillor (sovetnik) in the Russian colleges was to receive an annual salary of 1,200 rubles, while a councillor in the Swedish collegial administration received between 1,200 and 1,800 dsmt, and a foreign assessor in the Russian colleges was to receive 600 rubles, while his counterpart in Sweden was paid 1,200 dsmt. It is not known how the salaries for the Russian civilian personnel were determined, but it is evident from the comparisons that the difference between the salaries of Russians and foreigners with the same rank and function was not unfathomable. While the foreign councillor in the kamer-kollegiia was to receive an annual salary of 1,200 rubles, as pointed out above, the salary for the Russians in the same position was 800 rubles, or thirty-three percent less. When it came to the assessors, the difference was proportionately less, with the Russian assessor’s salary of 500 rubles being sixteen and a half percent less than the foreign assessor’s salary of 600 rubles. The salaries prescribed by the collegial budgets of 1718 for Russian civil servants compared favorably with the salaries paid to military officers, if one excludes the highest military ranks. An exact comparison is difficult, however, since there was no table of ranks at this time to informus of the relative prestige of, and the relationship between, civilian and military ranks. But the following examples can be offered on the basis of the rankings of civilian and military titles prescribed by the Table of Ranks of 1722. According to this system, army colonels and councillors in the kamer-kollegiia were equated in rank, whereas the former received 600 rubles a year according to the military salary schedule of 1720 and the latter was to receive a salary of 800 rubles according to the salary budget of 1718. Upon the publication of the Table of Ranks in 1722, however, it was declared that civil servants were to be paid salaries according to the military salary schedule,^®- which in effect brought a reduction of civil service salaries.-®® 251 250 TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 312. In a different context the Swedish silver coin was valued at forty kopecks; ibid., 1. 331. See, also, p. 261. 25» TsGADA, f. 248 delo 58 1. 283; Elmroth, 14—15. 252 PSZ, VI, no. 3,876, p. 479. The following salaries were set for military officers in 1720—taken from Golikov (1790—1797), XIII, 15—44. 253
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