AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS, BY CITIES.
| Atlanta | $4.95 | New Orleans | $4.31 |
| Baltimore | 4.18 | New York | 5.85 |
| Boston | 5.64 | Philadelphia | 5.34 |
| Brooklyn | 5.76 | Providence | 5.51 |
| Buffalo | 4.27 | Richmond | 3.83 |
| Charleston, S.C. | 4.22 | St. Louis | 5.19 |
| Chicago | 5.74 | St. Paul | 6.62 |
| Cincinnati | 4.50 | San Francisco | 6.91 |
| Cleveland | 4.63 | San José | 6.11 |
| Indianapolis | 4.57 | Savannah | 4.90 |
| Louisville | 4.51 | ---- | |
| Newark | 5.20 | All Cities | 5.24 |
In addition to these figures, it seems well to give the average yearly earnings of women in some of the most profitable industries, those being chosen which are seldom affected by "seasons":—
Artificial flowers, $277.53; awnings and tents, $276.46; bookbinding, $271.31; boots and shoes, $286.60; candy, $213.59; carpets, $298.53; cigar boxes, $267.36; cigar factory, $294.66; cigarette factory, $266.12; cloak factory, $291.76; clothing factory, $248.36; cotton-mills, $228.32; dressmaking, $278.37; dry-goods stores, $368.84; jewelry factory, $263.80; men's furnishing-goods factory, $232.24; millinery, $345.95; paper-box factory, $240.47; plug-tobacco factory, $235.67; printing-office, $300; skirt factory, $265.40; smoking-tobacco factory, $238.70.
These, so far as they have been collected and tabulated by the various labor bureaus, are the returns for the United States as a whole. The reports for the following years of 1891 and 1892 were expected to be far more general, but this has not proved to be the case.
AVERAGE WAGE PER STATE.
| Maine | $5.50 |
| Massachusetts | 6.68 |
| Connecticut | 6.50 |
| Rhode Island | 5.87 |
| New York | 5.85 |
| New Jersey | 5.00 |
| California | 6.00 |
| Colorado | 6.00 |
| Kansas | 5.17 |
| Wisconsin | 5.17 |
| Minnesota | 6.00 |
| All cities | 5.24 |