Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin #682, chapter 9: "Monthly earnings of professional engineers," pp. Schoolchildren and teachers in Deptford, 1926. Source: BLS Monthly Labor Review (July 1930). Figures expressed in both foreign currency and in dollars. National average salary: $70,208 per year. The early years ushered in a new sense of optimism. No doubt,a direct impact of theFirst World War. "A good hotel room costs only $4-5 per day while a hospital charges $6 and $7." View in more detail here. Wages are shown in French francs. 412. Source: BLS Monthly labor review, Oct 1927, Shows the average daily wages for 14 different occupations in the Florence district. Usually, where our ancestors lived dictated the type ofworkthey were likely to be doing. Source: U.S. Dept. The decade ended with the Wall Street Crash, paving the way for even more depression in the 1930s. 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Data was originally published in the Industrial Bulletin of the State Department of Labor. Top 100 high-paying jobs. Prices are shown in Mexican pesos. Now She Partners With Target and Uses Her Platform to Combat Medical Racism in the U.S. You Need to Ask Yourself This One Key Question, Mark Cuban's Grocery Store Hack Will Help You Score Cheaper Produce, 5 Types of Toxic Employees and How to Deal With Them (Infographic), Walmart Leaked Memo Warns Against Employees Sharing Corporate Information With ChatGPT, 5 Harvey Specter Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Baller. Lists wages paid to auto mechanics, office workers, window cleaners, barbers and hairdressers, bartenders in saloons, domestic servants, people working in social agencies, and more. Shows data for Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroitand otheradditional cities on pages5-9. Source: BLS, Shows the minimum hourly wages of various occupations in Brussels. 297. Compares average retail prices for drug-store items at independent stores and chain stores in Cincinnati and Washington DC. Source: BLS, Shows the cost of foodstuffs, clothing, and other necessities in Hungary. Wages are shown in Brazilian milreis. A century later,we still see remnants of this inequality throughout working life. Textile industries, laborers - Total employment in 1920: 169,953 Textiles and clothing manufacturing remains a potent industry in America, but jobs related to the industry have spread much farther out. Source: Chicago Commission on Race Relations report. The following two tables shows the average daily earnings of industrial and building workers by occupation as well as in Moscow, Leningrad, and the Ural mountain region. 13. Wages for workers engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel goods, machinery, railway rolling stock, boilers, vehicles, aircraft, electrical apparatus, scientific instruments and more. Farmers at work in Borth, Wales, 1925. Manual workers tended to live closer to their jobs, while professionals could afford to live further away. Most of them were found in the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and Westmorland whilethereweremuch fewer retirements in Glamorgan, Monmouth and Warwick. Exploring the 1921 Census reveals allfor the first time. Source: BLS, Shows the average daily wages and hours of a variety of occupations in Madrid. From, Average monthly wages by state,with and without board. Wages are shown in Greek drachmas. Pathologists are . Broken out by men's and women's jobs. In addition, women held jobs as teachers, nurses, librarians and maids. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. Source: BLS Monthly Labor Review (June 1931), Shows the average hours and daily wages of various workers in quarries, sawmills, and many other industries throughout Virginia. Use "search in this text" feature to navigate (or contact us for assistance). 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Anesthesiologist SDI Productions/Getty Images Overall score: 6.4 Median salary: $208,000 Unemployment rate: 0.3% Number of these jobs. Report published in 1921 tells wages for women working in offices, in meat and poultry packing, restaurants, food manufacturing, clothing manufacturing, laundries, and more. Shows the average weekly hours and hourly wages for workers in the boot and shoe industry. Milliners were found in abundance in Bedfordshire andcoal miners were most numerous in Glamorgan and Durham. The mostcommonpositions in the personal service industrywere domestic servants, charwomen and housekeepers. Chief Executive Officer - $310,000. Very simple table shows average hours and earnings for all production workers in manufacturing for each year from 1919-1960. for rural households in the U.S. and selected foreign countries. Table 25 shows additional breakouts for skilled and white collar workers by region (. Coffee cost an average 47 per pound in 1920. Religious organizations -Salaries, 1929in. Covers occupations in the building trades, metal trades, printing trades, coal mining and more. Wages are shown in Dutch guilder. Some New York City teacher and principal salaries are shown on the following page in Table 42. Describes the labor policy of New Zealand in the 1920's and throughout the rest of the early 20th century. Workers in the retail industry originally suffered unemployment as jobs disappeared in the first few years of the decade, then regained their jobs as the economy recovered. A century later,we still see remnants of this inequality throughout working life. Wages are shown in both Hungarian gold crowns and contemporary U.S. dollars. over the years. Covers the states of NH, VT, MA, CT, KY, SC, AL, MO, KS, IA and OH. Tip: use the search tool to look for words like cents or rate. Wages shown in 1931 US dollars. Source : Workers of the nation, vol. While the number of men working in the 20-44 age range decreased when compared to the 1911 Census. This data also includes the number of women in the labor force in each decade, and the percentage of women in the top 10 . More passenger air fares from other sources: Household items: ","spans":[]}]}},{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyText","type":"text","label":null,"primary":{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyTextPrimary","text":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Metalworkers were prevalent in Sheffieldand Birmingham. by STATE To view an issue of interest, select it from the list and click View. by OCCUPATION Shows by county the price of undeveloped land, plow land and farm land. A mail order catalog for the Fall/Winter season, 1920-1921. A squad of policewomen lines up for duty, 1921. For example, they may work on building power-generating equipment or electrical systems for aircraft. Source: Median wages for butlers, chauffeurs, gardeners, furnace men and "house men" employed to work in private households in Philadelphia in the late 1920s. Shows the daily cost of food, heat, and light for a working family of 4 following independence. Wages are shown in Czech krone. ","spans":[]}]}},{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyText","type":"text","label":null,"primary":{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyTextPrimary","text":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"With the introduction of theEducation Act, most children entered the workforce when they left school aged 14 but the 1921 Census records anyoneemployedfrom age 12 upwards. Farm laborers in Missouri earned an average $41.90/month in 1921. Here are 25 jobs for you to consider that pay close to $100,000 or more per year. 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Source: The cost of living among wage-earners, Cincinnati OH, pp. Scroll forward and back to see the various cities for which average food prices are available. Wages are shown in both German marks and contemporary U.S. dollars. Wages are shown in Japanese yen. Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin, no. 3. Source: BLS, Shows the average retail prices of staple foodstuffs in Madrid, Spain. Conversely, a dollar earned in 1928 had the same buying power as abut $15 in the year 2020. These roles are available in a range of industries including healthcare, mining and technology. Source: BLS, Shows the average wages of Spanish agricultural workers in different cities. There is also a table showing, Shows the value of multiple currencies in US dollars in the years of. Source: Cost of living and family expenditures in Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. . Wages are shown in contemporary U.S. dollars. Compares average retail prices for "warehoused" name brand grocery items at independent and chain stores in Cincinnati. Source: BLS, Shows the daily wages of masons, carpenters, stonecutters, painters, shoemakers, and tailors in each of the provincial capitals of Spain. Shows annual salaries for all school personnel in Texas without breakouts for occupation, years of training, years of experience, etc. ","spans":[]}]}},{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyText","type":"text","label":null,"primary":{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyTextPrimary","text":[{"type":"heading2","text":"What was the legal working age in 1920s Britain? Despite the country recovering from the devastation of war, in many instances, the Roaring Twenties had well and truly arrived. Was your great grandmother blazing a trail in a male-dominated field back in the 1920s? 2, p. 1047. 514. Source: BLS, Shows the retail prices of foodstuffs and other staple goods in the Mexican capital. Gasoline cost an average21.7 per gallon in 1929. Part of a section on Negro women's wages. Industrial home work was most common in clothing manufacturing and tobacco industries (rolling cigars, etc.) ","spans":[{"start":33,"end":47,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBOR%2FFPC%2FDI%2F1920S%2FH%2F01218049&parentid=GBOR%2FFPC%2FDI%2F1920S%2FH%2F01218049%2F0"}}]}]}]},{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyText","type":"text","label":null,"primary":{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyTextPrimary","text":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Most women worked in the private personal service industry,with over a million listing themselves as suchin the Census. Source: BLS, Shows the average daily wages of manual work occupations in Barcelona, Spain. Wages are listed in Mexican currency with exchange rate for calculating amounts in U.S. dollars. The early years ushered in a new sense of optimism. This table covers pages 357-360 in this source. Source: U.S. BLS Bulletin no. Union wages by occupation and city, 1922-1928, Women's median wages by state and industry, 1910s-1920s, Average college expenses and tuition by institution, 1928, Family budgets by income group, 1918-1930, https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages, Common labor - Average entrance wage rates, 1926-1934, Union wages by occupation and city, 1920-1921, Steam fitters' and sprinkler fitters' helpers, Structural-iron workers: finishers' helpers, Union wages by occupation and city, 1929-1930, Captains, masters, mates, pilots, and engineers, Maintenance-of-way employees: Gang foremen, Maintenance-of-way employees: Assistant gang foremen, Maintenance-of-way employees: Iron workers, Maintenance-of-way employees: Masons, bricklayers, and plasterers, Maintenance-of-way employees: Section laborers, Maintenance-of-way employees: Crossing and bridge flagmen and gatemen, War and postwar wages, prices, and hours, 1914-23 and 1939-44, Urban Negro weekly earnings by sex and occupational class, 1925, Negro wages by occupation - Chicago, 1920, Teacher salaries by race - North Carolina, 1922, Teacher salaries by race - Texas, 1925-1926, Accountants, auditors, bookkeepers, etc. Source: Lists results of 22 studies that show the % of family budget spent in various categories (rent, food, health, etc.). "The sum of $4,000 will buy only a very modest home and even then it will have to be in one of the smaller citiesor in a remote suburb of a large city." University of Missouri, Columbia Totals are shown in Canadian dollars. Children's: Describes the labor policy of Canada in the 1920's and throughout the rest of the early 20th century. ","spans":[{"start":139,"end":150,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/1911-census-for-england-and-wales"}}]}]}},{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyImage_with_link","type":"image_with_link","label":null,"fields":[{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyImage_with_linkFields","image_with_link":{"dimensions":{"width":444,"height":474},"alt":"British coal miners, 1920s. Many of the reports can be found in. Wages are shown in Spanish pesetas. Check out OnStride Financial's infographic below to find out what you'd be doing 90 years ago. Source: U.S. Bureau of Education. In 1921, over 1.5 million women still worked in personal serviceand 92% of laundry workers were female. Work clothes, work shirts, dress shirts, dress pants, trousers, vests, suits, dress gloves, overcoats, winter coats, fur caps and collars, neck ties, belts and suspenders, caps and hats, nightwear, socks, shoes, boots, pocket knives, pocket watches, toupes, razors, smoking pipes. Source: Click "more" for direct links to each occupation. Use the following hyperlinks to see values for AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY. Shows the standard wages for different shift at ports in Antwerp, Belgium. Wages are shown in 1931 US dollars. The percentage of married women who worked in 1920 was 4-5 percent in 1890 . Purchasing power is represented in its equivalence in horses, wheat, the yearly wages of a skilled tradesperson, and others. MERCHANDISE Chart indicates hourly earnings ranges for piecework at automobile manufacturing companies in Germany. Source: BLS, Shows the retail prices of food and commodities in various cities throughout south Manchuria. Average earnings by occupation and districts. 19. Lists annual pay for individuals occupying administrative and supervisory positions in the executive and judicial branches. Source: BLS, Shows the average price of foodstuffs and other common goods in the federal district of Mexico. Source: BLS. Radio sales went from $60 million in 1922 to $843 million in 1929. Source: BLS Monthly Labor Review, July 1930. Provides foreign wage data in native currency alongside the U.S. dollar equivalent to assist in comparing the rates. This series of tables shows the wage distribution and average weekly wages of a variety of industries and occupations in Missouri in 1921. 358, Average hours and earnings by occupation and district. War was over, women were more independent than ever before and there were significant advances in science and technology. It also summarizes the years from 1907-1922. ","spans":[]}]}},{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyText","type":"text","label":null,"primary":{"__typename":"PrismicBlog_articleBodyTextPrimary","text":[{"type":"heading2","text":"What were the most common jobs in the 1920s? Wages on pages34-40. HOUSING, FARMS and UTILITIES View in more detail here. By 1970, 50 percent of single . Source: BLS, Shows the average daily wage in both yen and US dollars. Wages are shown in both Chervonetz roubles and contemporary U.S. dollars. Source: BLS, Shows the average retail prices of food, clothing, and fuel prices in Shanghai. Source: U.S. Dept of Agriculture. 100 Years of Working Women. Factory employee average annual wages - 1921, 1923. 407. Details the price of clothing for men, women, boys and girls on pp. Cardiologist. Source: Shows wages, hours and earnings for mechanics, pipe fitters, welders, tinsmiths derrick men, drillers, firemen, engineers and more. Full chapter extends from pp. Shows pay for those involved in "1st class New York City productions" including actors of various levels (from chorus to leads) as well as directors, designers, scene painters, stage hands, etc. Source: BLS Monthly Labor Review, March 1932, The "Service Industries" chapter in this source breaks out wages paid to workers in hospitals, hotels, bowling alleys, theaters, parks, churches, country clubs, athletic clubs and yacht clubs, advertising agencies, banks, laundries, schools/colleges, and restaurants (making no distinction between waiters, cooks or bus boys). What suits you? Unskilled labor hired by cities for construction, repair or cleaning of streets. Jump directly to prices for: meats and eggs, butter, cheese, milk, bread and flour, corn meal, rice, potatoes, granulated sugar, coffee and tea, onions, navy beans, prunes, raisins, canned salmon, evaporated milk, margarine, lard, oats, corn flakes, wheat cereal, macaroni, canned baked beans, canned corn, canned peas, canned tomatoes, bananas, oranges, and more. COST OF LIVING Data is broken out byoccupation, sex and district. Source: BLS Bulletin no. Introduction. Shows the wages of Japanese mining workers by gender and age. Source: Bulletin #269 of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, "Farm Family Living Among White Owner and Tenant Operators in Wake County," pages 24-28. Source: BLS. Related: Life Advice From 18 of the Wealthiest People in History. Table shows average 1929 and 1931 weekly wages of full-time store employees, managers, and supervisors by kind and size of chain and location. Some occupations covered include telephone operators, waitresses, hotel maids, chambermaids, elevator girls, laundry workers, retail clerks, and factory workers in the wood working industry. The woman's wage is a measure of the inclusion of women in society, and we gain important insights when we consider wage as a social construction rather than a theoretical outcome of supply and demand (Kessler-Harris 1991). This newfound sense of independence among British women in the 1920s is reflectedin the jobs they were doingat the time. Source: Includes district-specific information and the average output of coal per person per shift. Source: Covers elementary schools and junior high schools in American cities with populations of 2,500 or more. Knickerbockers, shirts, high school boy's suits, boy's fine suits, overcoats, winter coats, jackets, pajamas, rain coats, caps and hats, shoes. Wages shown in 1930 US dollars. Source: Women's Bureau Bulletin #85. 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