WAGES AND SALARIES
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The wage rates for the manufacturing industries are, for convenience, summarized in Tables VI. and VII. Practically all of the figures show wage rates rather than earnings.
Table VI
Compensation Wages foe Male Wage-earners in Certain Manufacturing Industries
| Total Employed |
Per Cent, of Males Receiving Wage Rates Per Year of Lets Than | ||||||
| $250 | $500 | $750 | $1,000 | $1,250 | $1,500 | ||
| Iron and steel industry (1910) | 172,706 | . . . . | 8 | 60 | 85 | . . . . | 97 |
| Textiles—cotton (1910-11), | |||||||
| North | 11,041 | 5 | 54 | 94 | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . |
| South | 3,784 | 22 | 85 | 97 | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . |
| Woolen and worsted (1910-11), | |||||||
| Dyeing | 791 | . . . . | 87 | 92 | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . |
| Finishing | 1,644 | 2 | 76 | 85 | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . |
| Lawrence (1911) | 11,075 | 5 | 56 | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . |
| Little Falls (1912) | 2,502 | 7 | 63 | 87 | 96 | . . . . | . . . . |
| Woolen (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) | 17,178 | 1 | 30 | 77 | 97 | . . . . | . . . . |
| Cotton (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) | 28,478 | 8 | 57 | 97 | . . . . | . . . . | . . . . |
| Pulp and paper industry (1910) | 9,173 | . . . . | 32 | 83 | 94 | 96 | 96 |
| Lumber (1910-11) | 59,228 | . . . . | 39 | 91 | 96 | . . . . | 99 |
| Mill work (1910-11) | 32,405 | . . . . | 14 | 57 | 74 | . . . . | 98 |
| Furniture (1910-11) | 34,095 | . . . . | 10 | 47 | 93 | . . . . | 99 |
| Cigar (1910-11) | 3,615 | . . . . | 6 | 29 | 53 | . . . . | 96 |
| Meat packing (1910-11) | 7,096 | 12 | 39 | 83 | 96 | . . . . | . . . . |
Table VII
Compensation Bates for Female Wage-earners in Certain Manufacturing Industries
| Total Employed |
Per Cent, of Females Receiving Wage Rates Per Year of Less Than | ||||
| $250 | $500 | $750 | $1,000 | ||
| Textiles—cotton (1910-11) | |||||
| North | 12,424 | 9 | 81 | . . . . | . . . . |
| South | 2,337 | 47 | 97 | . . . . | . . . . |
| Woolen and worsted (1910-11), Finishing | 2,886 | 13 | 86 | 97 | . . . . |
| Lawrence (1911) | 8,320 | 8 | 86 | . . . . | . . . . |
| Little Falls (1912) | 2,736 | 13 | 78 | 99.8 | . . . . |
| Woolen (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) | 18,144 | 5 | 53 | 97 | . . . . |
| Cotton (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) | 38,445 | 19 | 83 | 99 | . . . . |
| Cigar (1910-11) | 7,551 | 11 | 44 | 86 | 96 |
| Glass finishing (1909) | 2,774 | 39 | 97 | . . . . | . . . . |
| Meat packing (1910) | 1,064 | 27 | 92 | 99 | . . . . |
There is every difficulty in the way of generalizing from these scattered instances. On the face of the returns, the wages for men are much higher than the wages for women. Both appear distributed over the wage scale in varying proportions, depending upon the industry. With the exception of the finishing departments of the woolen mills, the wages paid in the textile industry appear to be lower than those paid in any other of these industries; the wage rates fall in the vast majority
