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Average Rates of Wages.
I.—With Board.
a. Domestic servants:—
|
Per week. |
Cooks |
12s. 6d. to 20s. |
Gardeners |
15s. to 30s. |
General servants and housemaids |
8s. to 15s. |
Grooms |
15s to 30s. |
Laundresses |
12s. to 25s. |
Married couples without family (per year) |
£50 to £90 |
Married couples with family |
£5 to £10 less |
Needlewomen |
12s. to 20s. |
Nursemaids |
6s. to 12s. |
b. Farm lalour:—
|
Per week. |
Farm labourers |
15s. to 25s. |
Ploughmen |
17s.to 30s. |
Reapers, mowers and threshers and threshers |
25s. to 40s. |
c. Pastoral labour:—
Shepherds, stock and hut keepers |
20s. to 30s. or (per year) £50 to £75 |
Men cooks |
15s. to 30s. |
Station labourers |
12s. to 20s. |
Shearers (per 100 sheep shorn) |
15s. to 17s. 6d. |
II.—Without Board.
|
Per day. |
Blacksmiths |
7s. to 12s. |
Bricklayers |
4s. to 12s. |
Brick makers |
6s. to 8s. |
Carpenters |
7s. to 10s. |
Compositors |
7s. to 10s. |
Coopers |
7s. to 10s. |
Dressmakers |
3s. 6d. to 6s. |
Engineers |
10s. |
Gardeners |
6s. to 7s. |
General labourer and navvies |
6s. to 8s. |
Masons |
8s. to 12s. |
Miners |
7s. to 10s |
Painters |
6s. 6d. to 10s |
Plasterers |
8s. to 12s. |
Plumbers |
7s. to 12s |
Saddlers |
7s. to 10s |
Shipwrights |
8s. to I2s |
Shoemakers |
7s. to 10s |
Tailors |
8s. to 10s |
Tailoresses |
4s. to 6s. |
Tinsmiths (per week) |
30s. to 50s |
Watchmakers |
10s. |
Wheelwrights |
8s. to 12s |
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III.—Without Board.
|
Per week. |
Bakers |
40s. to 45s. |
Butchers |
40s. to 45s. |
Storemen |
40s. to 50s. |
Wharf labourer |
30s. |
IV.—With Board.
|
Per month. |
Seamen |
£5 to £7. |
Note.—Farm labourers are usually boarded and lodged; and single men are, as a rule, preferred to married men with families. A high rate of wages does not necessarily imply a demand for labour. The ordinary working day for artisans is eight hours, and for bakers ten hours.