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WAGES AND SALARIES
497

The wage rates for the manufacturing industries are, for convenience, summarized in Tables VI. and VII. Practically all of the figures show wage rates rather than earnings.

Table VI

Compensation Wages foe Male Wage-earners in Certain Manufacturing Industries
Total
Employed
Per Cent, of Males Receiving Wage
Rates Per Year of Lets Than
$250 $500 $750 $1,000 $1,250 $1,500
Iron and steel industry (1910) 172,706 . . . . 8 60 85 . . . . 97
Textiles—cotton (1910-11),
North 11,041 5 54 94 . . . . . . . . . . . .
South 3,784 22 85 97 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Woolen and worsted (1910-11),
Dyeing 791 . . . . 87 92 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finishing 1,644 2 76 85 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lawrence (1911) 11,075 5 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Little Falls (1912) 2,502 7 63 87 96 . . . . . . . .
Woolen (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) 17,178 1 30 77 97 . . . . . . . .
Cotton (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) 28,478 8 57 97 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pulp and paper industry (1910) 9,173 . . . . 32 83 94 96 96
Lumber (1910-11) 59,228 . . . . 39 91 96 . . . . 99
Mill work (1910-11) 32,405 . . . . 14 57 74 . . . . 98
Furniture (1910-11) 34,095 . . . . 10 47 93 . . . . 99
Cigar (1910-11) 3,615 . . . . 6 29 53 . . . . 96
Meat packing (1910-11) 7,096 12 39 83 96 . . . . . . . .

Table VII

Compensation Bates for Female Wage-earners in Certain Manufacturing Industries
Total
Employed
Per Cent, of Females Receiving
Wage Rates Per Year of
Less Than
$250 $500 $750 $1,000
Textiles—cotton (1910-11)
North 12,424 9 81 . . . . . . . .
South 2,337 47 97 . . . . . . . .
Woolen and worsted (1910-11), Finishing 2,886 13 86 97 . . . .
Lawrence (1911) 8,320 8 86 . . . . . . . .
Little Falls (1912) 2,736 13 78 99.8 . . . .
Woolen (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) 18,144 5 53 97 . . . .
Cotton (Bureau of Labor 1910-11) 38,445 19 83 99 . . . .
Cigar (1910-11) 7,551 11 44 86 96
Glass finishing (1909) 2,774 39 97 . . . . . . . .
Meat packing (1910) 1,064 27 92 99 . . . .

There is every difficulty in the way of generalizing from these scattered instances. On the face of the returns, the wages for men are much higher than the wages for women. Both appear distributed over the wage scale in varying proportions, depending upon the industry. With the exception of the finishing departments of the woolen mills, the wages paid in the textile industry appear to be lower than those paid in any other of these industries; the wage rates fall in the vast majority