Table 17. Annual Earnings of Men and Women
Annual earnings
Less than $500 eevacmemccmccnne
1500 and less than $1000 ........
31000 and less than $1200 .o.._...
31200 and less than $1500 __......
31500 and less than $2500 __.._...
12600 and OVer meeeemcemmmeaune
Toth] wevmenmmcnreannnma meee
Moin concn um mmm mmm—
Pull-fachioned hosiery
Seamless hosiery
Men
‘Women
Men
Women
Num- | Per
ber rent
Num- | Per
ber cent
Num- |
ber
Per
cent
Num- | Per
ber cent
16 1.0
180 7.2
4 6.8
140 | 8.5
342 | 20.9
160, 46.5
58
881
307
530
387
3.0
34.6
15.6
27.0
19.6
2
3
27
23
20
69
15
4.8
16.3
13.8
17.5
1.5
..0
62 | 8.4
491 | 66.2
114 15.4
87 9.0
8 1.0
742 100.0
$824
1632 | 100.0
1966 | 100.0 166 | 100.0
$1608
$2323
Chart 11. Annual Earnings of Men and Women
FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY
Number
Mer 1632
18%
ess
Fle.
Lon
17
E00 ory More
rless Than!
Vormer 1966] 36%
$2500 8 More
Mer
66
Norm er
742
Less Thar 000 =1000 and Less Thor® i
SEAMLESS HOSIERY
18%
Less The
Tn
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i
Jess Than $000
wa
har
=O
rool
ae, 7
1500 ond
255 FNar?
3500
Median annual earnings by occupational classification
As was to be expected, annual earnings tended to be highest in the
occupational groups where weekly earnings were highest. Of the
full-fashioned hosiery workers only men employed as knitters had
median annual earnings above the median for the entire group. Women
in the topping department had the highest median annual earnings,
$1406. Boarding and seaming were the only other departments where
the median for women was above $1200.
In the seamless hosiery industry there were three occupational
oroups, rib knitting, machine fixing, and maintenance, in which the men