TABLE XIV
Average Weekly Wages by Occupations
| Occupation | Average weekly wages | Per cent receiving more than the average | Per cent receiving the same or less than the average | Highest wages received | Lowest wages received | Total number |
|---|
| General servants | $3.16 | 40.5 | 59.5 | $5.00 | $1.50 | 914 |
| Second girls | 3.34 | 62.2 | 37.8 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 475 |
| Cooks | 4.45 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 10.50 | 1.00 | 574 |
| Chambermaids | 3.86 | 57.4 | 42.6 | 5.00 | 3.00 | 82 |
| Waitresses | 3.76 | 48.4 | 51.6 | 5.00 | 2.50 | 50 |
| Parlor maids | 3.94 | 80.4 | 19.6 | 5.00 | 3.50 | 57 |
| Nursery maids | 3.26 | 51.3 | 48.7 | 7.00 | 1.00 | 233 |
| Laundresses | 4.44 | 44.4 | 55.6 | 6.00 | 2.00 | 53 |
| Total | | | | | | 2,438 |
It is seen from Table XII that the average weekly wages in domestic service are $3.23—a fair average in this case, since forty-eight per cent receive more than the average and fifty-two per cent the same or less than the average. The average domestic employee, therefore, is able to earn in money during the year $167.96—a fair estimate, since in seventy-five cases out of every hundred the vacation granted women employees during the year is given without loss of wages.[210] This forms, however, but a part of the annual earnings. To this sum must be added board and lodging, fuel and light. For the equivalent in quality and quantity to that furnished by the employer the employee would in general be obliged to pay for board, lodging, and other incidental expenses at a reasonable estimate five dollars per week, or $250 annually, deducting board for two weeks’ vacation. The total annual earnings of a domestic employee, therefore, amount to nearly $420. To this the negative facts must be added that there is no expense for laundry work, and that the work involves few personal expenses in the way of clothing, and that these necessary expenses are often partially met through gifts from the employer. Again, the position entails no expenditures for car fares in going to and from work, or other demands such as are made in a business way by other occupations, and it involves no outlay for appliances for work, as a sewing-machine, type-writer, text-books, etc. Moreover, no investment of capital is necessary in learning the principles of the work, since employers have thus far been willing to make of their own homes training-schools for employees. The domestic employee is therefore never obliged to pay back either the capital invested in preparing for her work or the interest on that amount. It thus seems possible for the average household employee to save annually nearly $150 in an occupation involving no outlay or investment of capital in any way, and few personal expenses.
TABLE XV
Classified Annual Salaries of Women Teachers
| City | Earning Annually |
| Under $300 | $300, but under $400 | $400, but under $500 | $500, but under $600 | $600, but under $700 | $700, but under $800 | $800, but under $900 | $900, but under $1,000 | $1,000, but under $1,200 | $1,200, but under $1,500 | More than $1,500 | Total |
| Albany, N.Y. | 1 | 26 | 34 | 153 | 22 | 11 | 6 | | | 1 | | 254 |
| Atlanta, Ga. | 7 | 1 | 32 | 31 | 3 | 4 | 1 | | | 2 | | 81 |
| Baltimore, Md. | | | 628 | 246 | 101 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 3 | | | 1,020 |
| Cambridge, Mass. | | 1 | 22 | 19 | 146 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 2 | | | 214 |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | | | 26 | 50 | 59 | 359 | 98 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 619 |
| Cleveland, Ohio | | | 119 | 124 | 269 | 89 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 653 |
| Detroit, Mich. | | 54 | 63 | 111 | 20 | 121 | 35 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 427 |
| Lawrence, Mass. | | 43 | 49 | 6 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 103 |
| Lowell, Mass. | | | 8 | 5 | 155 | 9 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | 180 |
| Milwaukee, Wis. | | 2 | 76 | 72 | 197 | 19 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 2 | | 399 |
| New Haven, Conn. | | 54 | 73 | 38 | 107 | 14 | 11 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 301 |
| New Orleans, La. | 2 | 172 | 174 | 3 | 18 | 7 | | 5 | 1 | | | 382 |
| Paterson, N. J. | | 55 | 97 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 2 | | | | | 197 |
| Rochester, N. Y. | 45 | 57 | 287 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 6 | | 1 | 2 | | 422 |
| St. Louis, Mo. | 61 | 36 | 182 | 362 | 122 | 133 | 42 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 996 |
| Syracuse, N. Y. | | 35 | 52 | 139 | 21 | 3 | 13 | 1 | | | | 264 |
| Total | 116 | 493 | 1,916 | 1,431 | 1,261 | 803 | 244 | 107 | 52 | 67 | 22 | 6,512 |
A comparison may be made between these wages and the annual salaries received in sixteen representative cities by the women teachers in the public schools. Tables XV and XVI show the annual classified and average salaries received.[211]
TABLE XVI
Average Annual Salaries of Women Teachers
| City | Average salary | Per cent receiving more than the average | Per cent receiving the same or less than the average |
|---|
| Albany, N.Y. | $505.73 | 27.70 | 72.30 |
| Atlanta, Ga. | 459.05 | 48.12 | 51.88 |
| Baltimore, Md. | 500.92 | 37.12 | 62.88 |
| Cambridge, Mass. | 628.35 | 22.32 | 77.68 |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | 702.87 | 20.60 | 79.40 |
| Cleveland, Ohio | 625.60 | 43.20 | 56.80 |
| Detroit, Mich. | 607.96 | 96.02 | 3.98 |
| Lawrence, Mass. | 511.16 | 26.22 | 73.78 |
| Lowell, Mass. | 608.66 | 6.71 | 93.29 |
| Milwaukee, Wis. | 588.00 | 63.59 | 34.41 |
| New Haven, Conn. | 536.41 | 52.96 | 47.04 |
| New Orleans, La. | 429.78 | 28.08 | 71.92 |
| Paterson, N.J. | 455.20 | 22.84 | 77.16 |
| Rochester, N.Y. | 431.63 | 57.34 | 42.66 |
| St. Louis, Mo. | 574.68 | 34.89 | 65.11 |
| Syracuse, N.Y. | 494.98 | 67.04 | 32.96 |