Mr. ROYBAL.

May I also ask that the same thing be done in every category? I would like to make a comparison of what it is today, what it was 2 years ago, and even 4 years ago, and see if you have made any progress. And, if so, what kind of progress.

Mr. BRECHT. And also where we are headed.

Mr. ROYBAL. Yes indeed, because 8 percent of all minorities is not enough.

Mr. BRECHT. I understand. I agree. I would like to commentjust in the past year-this is comparing 1974 to 1975-this happens to be on women-in the grade categories of GS-13 to 18, which is an area that we have not done so well in the past; we experienced an 18 percent jump-and again I recognize that percentages on small numbers can be misleading, but in this case it was an increase from 416 to 491. It was an increase of 75. All right. Still a very small percentage of the total department, but at least it is moving in the right direction, and at a rate considerably faster than the employment as a whole.

Mr. ROYBAL. I think that is what the committee would like to know-whether or not some progress is being made, and how fast that progress is being made.

Mr. BRECHT. I agree.

Mr. ROYBAL. Thank you.
That is all, Mr. Chairman.
[The information follows:]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT BY MINORITY GROUP STATUS

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

Comparison

Comparison

1968-1975

1,052

1,116

1,489

82,155 85,635 88,351 94,557 102,813 106,157
11,777 12,251 13,234 13,954
16,170
2,788

114,686

No.

122,648 7,962

15,619

1,754

2,247

18,216
3,437

19,533

1,317 7.2

7,756 65.8

3,912

475 13.8

2,960

271.8

American Indian

79

85

104

107

128

146

includes full time regular, seasonal, when actually employed (WAE); part-
time and intermittent regular and WAE seasonal for both wage board GS series executive level personnel.

Due to the amount and varied categories of data by minority group, designations have been selected for the
full-time GS series only.