Behind the scenes in a restaurant: A study of 1017 women restaurant employees

by Consumers' League of New York City

APPENDIX V.

Table 1.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Occupation.

Age	Waitresses		Cooks		Helpers		Total at each age
	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent
14 and under 16 years	2	.3	...	...	...	...	2	.2
16 and under 21 years	77	15.0	38	21.0	130	48.0	245	25.0
21 and under 30 years	288	55.0	54	29.4	87	32.0	429	44.0
30 and under 40 years	127	24.0	46	25.1	35	13.0	208	21.2
40 and under 50 years	25	4.7	37	20.2	15	5.3	77	8.0
50 and under 60 years	4	1.0	8	4.3	3	1.0	15	1.4
60 years and over	...	...	...	...	2	.7	2	.2
Total	523	100.00	183	100.00	272	100.00	978[16]	100.00

Table 2.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Nationality.

Nationality	14 and under 16 y’rs	16 and under 21 y’rs	21 and under 30 y’rs	30 and under 40 y’rs	40 and under 50 y’rs	50 and under 60 y’rs	60 y’rs and over	Total in each Nationality
American	...	48	156	81	26	3	...	314
Austro-Hungarian	1	155	137	55	18	4	...	370
Danish	...	...	4	...	1	...	...	5
Dutch	...	...	...	...	2	...	...	2
Eng. and Canadian	...	...	16	12	1	2	...	31
French	...	...	1	1	2	1	...	5
German	1	6	36	20	12	1	...	76
Greek	...	1	...	...	...	...	...	1
Irish	...	3	27	22	11	3	2	68
Italian	...	...	2	3	...	...	...	5
Polish	...	8	9	3	...	...	...	20
Russian	...	19	14	1	2	1	...	37
Scandinavian	...	1	5	4	1	...	...	11
Scotch	...	...	1	1	...	...	...	2
Swiss	...	1	1	...	...	...	...	2
West Indian	...	...	2	3	...	...	...	5
Total	2	242	411	206	76	15	2	954[17]

Table 3.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Conjugal Condition.

Age	Single	Married	Widowed	Separated or Divorced	Total at each age
14 and under 16 years	2	...	...	...	2
16 and under 21 years	226	12	2	1	241
21 and under 30 years	235	153	19	12	419
30 and under 40 years	42	97	53	14	206
40 and under 50 years	8	40	26	3	77
50 and under 60 years	...	4	9	2	15
60 years and over	1	...	1	...	2
Total	514	306	110	32	962[18]

Table 4.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Living Condition.

Age	Living with					Total at each age
	Family	Relatives	Friends	Furnis’d Room	Proprietor
14 and under 16 years	1	...	...	1	...	2
16 and under 21 years	82	78	59	18	6	243
21 and under 30 years	198	74	62	64	16	414
30 and under 40 years	92	37	24	36	10	199
40 and under 50 years	45	5	4	17	4	75
50 and under 60 years	11	2	...	1	...	14
60 years and over	...	...	...	2	...	2
Total	429	196	149	139	36	949[19]

Table 5.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Weekly Hours of Labor.

Weekly Hours of Labor	14 and under 16 y’rs	16 and under 21 y’rs	21 and under 30 y’rs	30 and under 40 y’rs	40 and under 50 y’rs	50 and under 60 y’rs	60 y’rs and over	Total in each hour group
54 hours and under	2	77	193	109	27	6	1	415
55 and under 65 hours	...	67	85	22	12	3	...	189
65 and under 75 hours	...	47	76	32	15	1	...	171
75 and under 85 hours	...	41	58	34	14	4	1	152
85 and under 95 hours	...	5	14	10	5	...	...	34
95 and under 105 hours	...	5	3	...	2	1	...	11
105 hours and over	...	3	...	1	2	...	...	6
Total	2	245	429	208	77	15	2	978[20]

Table 6.
Weekly Hours of Labor of Women Employed in Restaurants by Occupation.

Weekly Hours of Labor	Waitresses		Cooks		Helpers		Total in each hour group
	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent
Under 15 hours	6	1.0	...	...	1	.3	7	.7
15 and under 25 h’rs	75	14.0	1	.5	7	2.4	83	8.1
25 and under 35 h’rs	89	16.2	1	.5	22	7.5	112	11.0
35 and under 45 h’rs	45	8.2	7	4.0	13	4.5	65	6.3
45 and under 55 h’rs	100	18.2	17	9.0	42	15.0	159	16.0
55 and under 65 h’rs	78	14.2	34	18.0	85	30.1	197	19.3
65 and under 75 h’rs	68	12.4	51	27.0	64	23.0	183	18.0
75 and under 85 h’rs	73	13.3	49	26.0	36	13.0	158	15.5
85 and under 95 h’rs	11	2.0	15	8.0	9	3.1	35	3.4
95 and under 105 h’rs	2	.3	7	4.0	3	1.1	12	1.1
105 hours and over	1	.2	5	3.0	...	...	6	.6
Total	548	100.0	187	100.0	282	100.0	1017	100.0

Table 7.
Weekly Hours of Labor of Women Employed in Restaurants by Nationality.

Nationality	54 h’rs and under	55 and under 65 h’rs	65 and under 75 h’rs	75 and under 85 h’rs	85 and under 95 h’rs	95 and under 105 h’s	105 h’s and over	Total in each Nationality
American	190	45	38	41	4	2	...	320
Austro-Hungarian	83	88	97	81	18	6	6	379
Danish	5	...	...	...	...	...	...	5
Dutch	1	...	1	...	...	...	...	2
Eng. and Canadian	19	7	1	3	2	1	...	33
French	2	3	...	...	...	...	...	5
German	36	14	15	9	2	...	...	76
Greek	1	...	...	...	...	...	...	1
Irish	44	5	7	12	1	1	...	70
Italian	3	1	1	1	...	...	...	6
Polish	5	8	2	2	3	...	...	20
Russian	15	10	7	2	3	...	...	37
Scandinavian	6	2	...	1	...	2	...	11
Scotch	1	...	1	...	...	...	...	2
Swiss	1	...	...	1	...	...	...	2
West Indian	2	1	1	...	1	...	...	5
Total	414	184	171	153	34	12	6	974[21]

Table 8.
Weekly Wages of Women Employed in Restaurants by Occupation.

Weekly Wage	Waitresses		Cooks		Helpers		Total in each wage group
	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent
Under $1	1	.1	...	...	...	...	1	.1
$1 and under $2	1	.1	...	...	...	...	1	.1
2 and under 3	10	1.8	...	...	...	...	10	1.0
3 and under 4	74	14.0	1	.5	21	7.6	96	10.0
4 and under 5	107	20.2	4	2.1	19	7.0	130	13.2
5 and under 6	119	23.0	11	6.0	51	18.5	181	18.3
6 and under 7	107	20.2	15	8.1	119	43.4	241	25.0
7 and under 8	65	12.2	35	19.0	52	19.0	152	15.3
8 and under 9	26	5.0	36	20.0	7	2.5	69	6.0
9 and under 10	8	1.5	22	12.0	...	...	30	3.0
10 and over	10	1.9	60	32.3	5	2.0	75	8.0
Total	528	100.0	184	100.0	274	100.0	986[22]	100.0

Table 9.
Weekly Income of Women Employed in Restaurants by Occupation.

Weekly Income	Waitresses	Cooks	Helpers	Total
Under $1	2	...	...	2
$1 and under $2	2	...	...	2
2 and under 3	2	...	...	2
3 and under 4	16	1	21	38
4 and under 5	24	4	19	47
5 and under 6	47	11	51	109
6 and under 7	51	15	119	185
7 and under 8	61	35	52	148
8 and under 9	59	36	7	102
9 and under 10	60	22	...	82
10 and under 15	129	51	5	185
15 and under 25	73	9	...	82
25 and over	7	...	...	7
Total	533	184	274	991[23]

Table 10.
Wages of Women employed in Restaurants Showing Length of Time Idle during Preceding Year by Reason of Slack Season, Change of Work, Vacation with or Without Pay, Illness or Other Causes.

Weekly Wage	No time idle	Under 2 weeks	2 weeks and under 1 month	1 month and under 2 months	2 months and under 3 months	3 months and under 4 months	4 months and under 5 months	5 months and under 6 months	6 months and over	Total in each wage group
Under $2	1	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	1
$2 and under $3	1	1	1	2	2	...	...	...	...	7
3 and under 4	25	10	10	8	4	7	1	2	8	75
4 and under 5	34	10	15	4	7	5	2	1	6	84
5 and under 6	45	13	14	14	7	6	1	1	5	106
6 and under 7	76	25	29	11	13	9	...	6	5	174
7 and under 8	52	19	13	8	10	4	1	...	7	114
8 and under 9	26	7	6	4	3	1	...	1	1	49
9 and under 10	14	5	1	1	1	...	1	1	...	24
10 and over	36	6	8	5	...	3	1	...	6	65
Total	310	96	97	57	47	35	7	12	38	699[24]

Table 11.
Weekly Wage of Women Employed in Restaurants by Nationality.

Nationality	Under $1	$1 and under $2	$2 and under $3	$3 and under $4	$4 and under $5	$5 and under $6	$6 and under $7	$7 and under $8	$8 and under $9	$9 and under $10	$10 and over	Total in each Nationality
American	1	1	6	45	49	78	54	35	16	7	15	307
Austro-Hungarian	...	...	...	22	24	40	115	70	34	20	47	372
Danish	...	...	...	2	1	1	...	1	...	...	...	5
Dutch	...	...	...	...	...	1	...	1	...	...	...	2
English and Canadian	...	...	...	4	10	7	6	1	3	...	1	32
French	...	...	...	...	1	1	1	2	...	...	...	5
German	...	...	...	11	14	10	13	15	2	1	8	74
Greek	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	1	...	...	...	1
Irish	...	...	2	6	19	13	18	8	3	...	...	69
Italian	...	...	...	...	1	1	3	1	...	...	...	6
Polish	...	...	...	1	...	3	6	9	...	1	...	20
Russian	...	...	...	1	1	9	15	2	5	1	3	37
Scandinavian	...	...	...	1	3	2	1	2	2	...	...	11
Scotch	...	...	...	...	...	1	...	1	...	...	...	2
Swiss	...	...	...	...	...	1	...	1	...	...	...	2
West Indian	...	...	...	...	1	1	2	...	...	...	...	4
Total	1	1	8	93	124	169	234	150	65	30	74	949[25]

APPENDIX VI.
STATES HAVING LAWS REGULATING WORK OF WOMEN EMPLOYED IN RESTAURANTS.

Verified by U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics