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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71

Average Rates of Wages. — I.—With Board

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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.