MILLINERY AS A TRADE FOR WOMEN 
 
 
TABLE 27, SHOWING AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES THROUGHOUT THE 
        YEAR OF BOSTON MAKERS. CUMULATIVE STATEMENT. 
                      BASED ON TABLE 26. 
 
                                  xMAES RECEIVING SPECIFIED WAGE 
  Average Weekly Wage Throughout the Year 
                                     Number         Per Cent. 
 
Less than $3.00 ......                27             29.7 
Less than $4.00 ......                49             53.9 
Less than $5.00 ........              61             67.0 
Less than $6.00 ........              68             74.7 
Less than $7.00 ........              76             83.5 
Less than $8.00 ........              87             95.6 
Less than $9.00 ........              91            100.0 
 
 
than makers in retail shops. This did not prove true of whole- 
sale time workers, and it is doubtful if it is true of the majority 
of pieceworkers   Table 29 shows that only 1 of the pieceworkers 
from whom complete pay rolls were obtained averaged more 
than $9 per week, 1 between $7 and $8, 1 between $6 and $7, 
3 between $5 and $6, and 1 between $4 and $5. The average 
weekly wage throughout the year varied from $1.91 to $5.63. 
On the whole it may be said that the majority of wholesale mak- 
ers do not receive as high wages as retail makers. 
   The trimmers who form only from 12 to 14 per cent, of the 
total number of millinery workers receive wages which are not 
only a payment for skill but also for artistic ability. Their in- 
comes represent wages of supervision, for trimmers superintend 
the work of their makers, and in small establishments bear the re- 
sponsibility of the whole workroom. 
 
TABLE 28, COMPARING THE NOMINAL WEEKLY WAGES, THE AVERAGE 
   WEEKLY WAGES, AND THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES THROUGH. 
      OUT THE YEAR OF BOSTON MAKERS. BASED ON PAY ROLLS. 
 
                            PEE CENT. OF MAKERS hAVING THE TYPE OF 
                              WAGN RXTURN OF SPECIFIED AMOUNT 
      Type of Wage Return 
                         Less than Lezs than Less than Less than Less than

                            $5     $7      $9      $11    813 
 
Nominal weekly wage . *     9.1    42.8   75.5    91.3   100.0 
Average weekly wage . "    21.4    57.8   84.4    96.5   100.0 
Average weekly wage 
  throughout the year . .  67.0    83.5   100.0     - 
 
 
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