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DEPUTY REGISTRAR FINANCES 51Figure 3.4: Average Income of Private Deputies,1992, Actual and with Current Fees$120,000 Income$100,000• Actual 1992 I§]Wrth Current Fees$80,000$60,000$40,000$20,000$0Small Med Small Med Large LargeDeputy SizeSource: Office of the legislative Auditor.Under thecurrent feeschedule,averageincomes wouldI have ranged. from $15,000for smallprivatedeputies to$102,000 forlarge privatedeputies.Underthe current fee schedule, we estimate that average incomes would havebeen about $102,000 for laJ&e deputies, $47,000 for medium-IaJ&e deputies,$28,000 for medium-small deputies, and $15,000 for small deputies. Five of thenine laJ&e private deputy registrars provide driver's license services, comparedwith only one of the 24 small private deputies.Incomes for private deputies vary considerably within each size category. Underthe current fee schedule, incomes for laJ&e deputies would have ranged from over$150,000 to less than $50,000. Among small deputy registrars where the ownerworked full time, the income ranged from about $8,000 to about $24,000.DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYEXPENSESThe Department of Public Safety provides mail and walk-in service for motor vehicleregistration and title applications at the Transportation Building in St. Paul.It also processes driver's license applications for walk-in customers. Prior to January1993, the department provided these services with three separate units. Thefront counter served all walk-in customers. The second unit processed registrationrenewals received by mail, and the third unit processed motor vehicle title transactionsand other "long applications" received by mail. Occasionally, the frontcounter would help process registration renewals sent by mail. In January 1993,DPS combined the unit that processed title transactions by mail with the frontcounter. Three of the six positions from the mail unit were added to the front