Men.—In about twenty-five hotels and restaurants in which colored men are employed, wages are as follows:
| Chief cooks | $25.00 to $50.00 per week |
| Waiters | 25.00 to 40.00 per week |
| Bus boys | 14.00 to 20.00 per week |
| Hotel porters | 45.00 to 65.00 per month |
| Dishwashers | 15.00 to 20.00 per week |
| Second cooks | 20.00 to 35.00 per week |
| Bell-boys | 40.00 to 45.00 per month |
| Shoe shiners and washroom porters | 15.00 to 17.00 per week |
In all of the above-listed occupations the wages are augmented by tips. It is difficult to form an accurate estimate of the amount earned in tips for the reason that it is conditioned upon the character of service rendered and the inclination of the person served to pay for personal service. It would be fair to estimate that in hotels and restaurants known to employees as "good houses" the tips range from $2.00 to $5.00 per day. In a colored restaurant in the neighborhood of Thirty-first and State streets a wage of $5.00 per week is paid to waitresses, while the tips have been known to total five times that amount.
Women.—The twenty-five hotels and restaurants concerning which the Chicago Urban League's Industrial Department has records, employ women in the occupations and at the wages listed as follows:
| Waitresses | $ 8.00 to $15.00 per week and tips (board) |
| Chambermaids | 25.00 to 45.00 per month and tips (board) |
| Pantry girls | 15.00 to 18.00 per week and board |
| Kitchen help | 9.00 to 16.00 per week and board |
Allowing an average of 35 cents per meal for three meals, $1.05 per day or $7.35 per week should be added where board is included. This would make the following schedule of wages:
| Waitresses | $15.35 to $22.35 per week |
| Chambermaids | 54.40 to 74.40 per month |
| Pantry girls | 22.35 to 25.35 per week |
| Kitchen help | 16.35 to 23.35 per week |
In clerical positions colored men have had very little opportunity, except in the post-office. There are exceptions, however, such as shipping clerks, storekeepers, and bookkeepers.
The girls employed as long-hand entry clerks, typists, checkers, routers, and Elliott-Fisher and adding-machine operators received during 1920 from $15.00 to $16.00 as a beginning wage. The chief supervisor (colored) in charge of 600 girls in one of the large mail-order houses received $23.00 per week, and the assistant superintendent, a white man, received $50.00 per week while studying the mail-order business under the chief supervisor. When the management's attention was called to the inequality, two additional supervisors were added and the work lessened without increase of pay.
Another firm employing several hundred colored girls paid a welfare worker $20.00 per week, while another with half that number of girls paid $25.00 per week.