Includes data for the countries of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Noway, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Wages are shown in Mexican pesos. 170, published May 1915. 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Alphabetical list of colleges includes tuition, room & board, etc. Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin no. 229. tools, agricultural implements, more implements, farm wagons, harness, saddles, buggy and wagon parts. Lists wages in many cities across the U.S., including blacksmiths, boilermakers, bricklayers, carpenters, cleaning women, male and female cooks, drivers and teamsters, dock workers, farm hands, hod carriers, house servants, wiremen, laundry operators, machinists, painters, plasterers, plumbers, saleswomen, seamstresses, sewing machine operators, stenographers (male and female), telephone switchboard operators, waiters, waitresses, and more. This report gives the 1910 salaries of post-office employees and school teachers in Guadalajara. 170, published May 1915. City families' average expenditures on food, rent, fuel and more for the year. See quartile explanation on p. 334. A summary of such per-capita earnings for the years 1929 and 1932. is . 25-38. U.S. congressional document shows the price of foods such as potatoes, oatmeal, flour, mutton, butter, cheese, eggs, ham and beef, as well as "a suit of woolen clothing" and boots/shoes; coal, fuel oil, and farming implements such as plows, binders and two-horse mowers. At a hearing in. Source: Newcomb, Endicott and Co. Less than 3% of all nurse training schools charged tuition. Low 33,000. Use the following hyperlinks to see values for. Shows average values expressed as price per head. Topping the list is Hollywood, with Lehigh Acres and Kissimmee close behind in second and third. Note that plumbing and heating costs are listed separately as additional options. The 1910 Sears catalog listed many items for outfitting and upgrading one's home, including, Sears Roebuck paint catalog gives an estimated cost to paint the exterior of various houses. Source: U.S. Federal Trade Commission report. Report shows the following prices at Edinburgh: Table shows wholesale and retail prices of commodities at Glasgow in 1900 and 1910. In 1917 groceries cost. 160, published 1914. This series of tables shows retail prices of staple commodities and rents per month by locality (each table spans multiple pages, scroll forward to see the rest). Source: Congressional Serial Set vol. Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 19191933. Suits, overalls, pants, work shirts, laundered and dress shirts, flannel shirts, sweaters, nightwear, underwear, trusses, socks, overcoats, mackinaw and fur coats, raincoats, shoes, ties and mufflers, cuff links, furs, gloves, hats, pipes, pocket knives, watches, watch tools and chains Shows average salaries, estimated needed salaries, as well as total and estimated expenditures. Shows average wages for a variety of occupations and industries. Cost of getting sick with Spanish Flu, quoted from a 1921 book: "Take the recent 'flu' epidemic with the short illnesses, sudden deaths, and short time at hospital". Tells wages for the years 1911 to 1914, 1919, and 1922. Efforts to keep Britain in the Gold Standard, and in particular, the decision in 1925 to return to the prewar level of $4.85. Expressed in pesos. Shows the fee bill setting charges for medical services that was adopted by the Sullivan County Medical Society in 1911; also tells how it changes during and after WWI. Source: BLS, Shows the average wages of Spanish agricultural workers in different cities. Find a page number through the index and enter it in the page box. One school (Potter) had white students and the other (Durham) had "colored." Source: Table shows average annual wage per factory employee, by major manufacturing groups, in 1914, 1919, 1921, and 1923 (p. 262). Shows prices of food. See. rate, set in April 1999, was 3.60 an hour for adults aged over 22, covering as many as 1.2 million adults, who had an average pay rise of . New jobs added in the last day. Abercrombie & Fitch mail order catalog for Christmas, 1916. weekly wage-rate in each case now, as compared with June, 1920, and June, 1914, respectively? Average : 5,036 Range : 595 - 42,608. Baby: The tables are broken down by occupation and city. in June, 1914, an increase of about 160 per cent. That's about 10 times the annual salary for workers in 1920. catalog, 1917, Sporting gear and clothing prices - 1916, Average expenditure for individual articles of clothing, 1918-1919, B. Altman & Co. - Clothing mail order catalog, 1915, Average retail price of fabric in 45 cities - 1917, Ladies' undergarments, nightgowns, etc. In 1917 petrol cost. in FOREIGN COUNTRIES, FOOD Hourly wages rose in real terms (ie above inflation) every year from 1924 to 1930, with a rise of 10 per cent in 1928 alone. The report goes into great detail on the living expenses these workers had, the degree to which they needed to support family members with their wages, and necessary expenditures. Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin no. Table compares 1900 and 1910 wholesale and retail prices at Budapest for commodities (beer, veal, hogs, mutton, milk, butter, flour, eggs, wheat, cattle, wool, cotton, leather, hides, clothing, lumber, coat, cement, shoes, bricks) and yearly rents by number of rooms. Sewing supplies: Check under "General Specifications" for an estimated cost to build the home, which will include the cost of labor, brick, plaster, cement and other items not provided by Montgomery Ward. Filter by location to see Benchmarking salaries in your area. Shows wages and prices in kronen, along with the exchange rate to translate into U.S. dollars. sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths, blankets, quilts and calicos), Prices of American agricultural implements. This link leads to an index by city and states. Source: Table shows the price of imported and French made agricultural machinery for 1900 and 1910, including mowers, reapers, binders, hay rakes, and tedders. Factory employee average annual wages - 1921, 1923 Shows wage data by manufacturing categories for 1914, 1919, 1921, and 1923. Wages are shown in Japanese yen. The demand for a living wage was then taken up as official policy by the Independent Labour Party from 1925. Women tend to be clustered in certain fields; click these links to jump directly to the sections: Study conducted by several civic leagues in collaboration with the YWCA. 170, published May 1915. 1911. Source: Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. Source: BLS, Shows the earnings over different times for both government employees and manual workers in Hamburg. 613. In 1930 the average wage for a timework labourer in the engineering field was just under a shilling per hour; it dipped in 1933-4, then climbed again to around 1s 2d by 1938. The number of women in work was 1.7 million higher in 1925 than it . It includes "articles of daily household consumption" such as food and fuel as well as for animals, metals, fabric, building materials, and clothing. 19.7% of families purchased healthinsurancein 1918, at an average annual cost of $17. Rates of wages per hour in cigar manufacturing and clothing manufacturing for the years 1911 and 1912. reports wages only in the northern mills and records hourly earnings in December 1932 as 30.6 cents. Shows wages in rupees by location for agricultural laborers, masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc. This calculator allows you to compare the buying power of wages earned at different points in history. Salaries of head masters and head mistresses in Glasgow public schools. Florida: Jacksonville by STATE Shows the average annual salary of both white and black teachers for each sex in. See, Includes state universities and those which received some state funding, such as Cornell. There are more images. Table continues from page 1333 to page. 6184. At the same time, the minimum wage for younger workers under the age of 18 has increased at a slower pace than that of older workers. Room, board and expenses were about $175/year and books were $10/year. Books, writing tools, cameras and photography instruments, phonographs, records, pianos and organs, other instruments, guns, fishing tools, sporting goods, camp furnishings, Industrial home work - Earnings, early 1920s In general, it states women over the age of 18 should expect to be paid at least 10s to 12s a week. USDA Professional Paper #410, Nov 11, 1916. Havre - Salaries of officials and civil servants, 1900 and 1910, Berlin - Salaries and wages of officials and teachers, 1900 and 1910, fire service employees, and teachers at secondary and primary schools, Hamburg - Salaries of public officers, 1900 and 1910, court officials and judges, teachers in schools, Wages by occupation in the U.K., 1893-1913, Wages by occupation and sex in Great Britain, 1914-1921, Wages by industry in Great Britain, 1914-1921, Municipal employee wages by occupation - U.K., 1912, Government employees, letter carriers, teachers etc. Drawing upon these various statistics, construct an explanation of the causes of the Great Depression. Bread cost an average 5 per pound in 1912. This is the highest average ever recorded by the N. I. C. B. Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin No. Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin no. Data covers industrial towns in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. (Click image for detail), Marie Concannon, Government Information Librarian Childrens: July, 1925. This article argues that wage statistics reported by the government were miscalculated and that people actually earned less. Government employees in France - Salaries and wages, 1900 and 1910. California: Los Angeles and San Francisco. Reports wages, hours and earnings by occupation and sex for each year from 1914-1919 in the metal, cotton, wool, silk, boot and shoe, paper, rubber, and chemical manufacturing industries. Handyman supplies: Shows the cost of living of the working classes in the principal industrial towns of Belgium. List shows 1910 prices per kilo of beef, pork, and potatoes in Guadalajara, Jalisco. District of Columbia: Washington The figures for the shipbuilding industry relate to time-workers. This is taken from the book. Source: The "Service Industries" chapter in this source breaks out wages paid to workers in hospitals, hotels, bowling alleys, theaters, parks, churches, country clubs, athletic clubs and yacht clubs, advertising agencies, banks, laundries, schools/colleges, and restaurants (making no distinction between waiters, cooks or bus boys). Hourly earnings in manufacturing industries averaged 69.1c for the first 11 months of 1937, as compared with 60.6c in 1920, 59.0c in 1929, and 61.7c in 1936. Michigan: Detroit (The federal minimum wage wouldn't be enacted until 1938.) Following "Husbands" comes. Expressed in Turkish piasters. General merchandise catalog for clothing, household items and farm needs. A taste of life in Britain in 1925 01 June 2005 12:01am The male half of a courting couple could expect to pay 5d for a pint of beer in 1925 - the modern equivalent of about 73p today, using. Check the. HC Deb 30 July 1925 vol 187 cc671-3W 671W Sir W. de FRECE asked the Minister of Labour whether, taking the 12 chief industries of the country, including transport, he will state the average 672W weekly wage-rate in each case now, as compared with June, 1920, and June, 1914, respectively? A large proportion of the workpeople in this industry, however, are paid at piece-rates and the figures given are not applicable to piece-workers. Provides retail food prices in Germany in 1914 and in the years leading up to the war outbreak. Shows the what it might cost to acquire a 320 acre wheat farm and run it for a year, listing the cost of each essential agricultural implement, seed, eight horses, a buggy and two wagons, as well as typical amounts expended on farm help (wages and board), equipment repairs and maintenance, taxes, etc. Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton Shows the daily wages of Chilean miners between 1911 and 1924 in both pesos and the U.S. dollar. higher than in June, 15 1914. Dawn - As usual, London wages were much more than in the North. 170, published May 1915. 170, published May 1915. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the mean average salary across the whole of the UK in 2020 was 38,600 for full-time employees and 13,803 for those working part-time. Bibliography: p. 139-144. Prices of shoes - Table shows wholesale and retail. Lists average retail prices paid by farmers for tools, implements and supplies, work gloves, shirts and shoes, shotguns, tobacco, wagons, building materials and household items such as dishes, washtubs and buckets. Source: National Education Assoc. Data is broken out by income of the renters. Wages are shown in both US and English currency. This book also includes some chapters discussing typical jobs that college students might get and how much those jobs paid. all rights reserved, History U: Courses for High School Students, Statistics: The American Economy during the 1920s, Located on the lower level of the New-York Historical Society. Enter initial year before entering the initial amount and enter amount as a number without a sign or commas. Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations.