The Schuylkill County Prison Board on Wednesday hired two corrections officers.

Kassandra Confer of Tamaqua and Matthew Rose of New Boston begin work on June 22 and will be paid $17.51 an hour.In related news, the county salary board created two jobs: judicial attendant in the court administration office and a clerk on the adult probation office. Both jobs are by the day on an as-needed basis. The jobs are to start July 1, but the board did not set wages.The board did set a salary of $26.23 for Charles Bauers of Pottsville, who started his job as a juvenile probation officer on May 29.A day-by-day job as benefits administrator in the Human Services Department was eliminated as of June 6. That job paid $21.19 an hour.In other matters, Controller Christy Joy released the latest retirement fund figures at a Retirement Board meeting Wednesday.As of that morning, the fund stood at $127,007,709, down slightly from May 31, when the fund was $128,024,722.