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

by Consumers' League of New York City

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]