1893 - State Library Information Center

88 STATISTICS OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES.service, 8£ to 14 daily; dressmakers, 6J to 13; saleswomen, 5Jto 15; laundry workers, 8 to 14, and milliners and miscellaneousemployes in mercantile establishments, 8 to 13. Only 835, orless than 22 per cent., ordinarily, have less than 10 hours perday. The hour of beginning work ranges from 6:80 to 7 A. M.,and of quitting from 3 to 11J o'clock P. M. The bulk begins at7 o'clock or after, 3,124; and quits at from 6 to 7 o'clock, 2,879.The time allowed far meals ranges from J of an hour to 2J hours*1,145 having less than one hour and 2,732 one hour or more, theaverage time being f of an hour. The number of those obligedto stand when employed is 1,918; when not employed, 334, ornearly 50 and 8 per cent., respectively. In 527 cases, or about13 per cent, of the whole number, no seats are provided.All except a fraction are paid weekly wage rates, the averageof which, full time, is $5.50, or but little less, $5.48, when theperiod wage rate for all reporting is reduced to weekly time.The range is, of course, the extremes, from 50 cents paid a fewgirls as domestic servants to $20 for some special workers,mainly forewomen. The classified rates will better indicate thegeneral wages received than either the range or the average :Individuals.Under $3 219$:Uo $4 381$4 to $5 745$5 to $6 752$6 to $7 804$7 to $8 373$8 to $10 449$10 and over.... 154In other words, 1,345, or about 35 per cent., receive less than$5, and 2,097, or 54 per cent., less than $6 per week as full-timeThe average number of days' employment during the year was249, or 58 lost time, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays.An average of 14.6 days was due to sickness in case of 1,058employes, and of 36.6 days to want of employment by 1,944.This lost time brings the average yearly earnings, for the wholenumber of working women reported, to $265. The range ofyearly earnings ran from $12 to $1,175, which are extremes, as