Median weekly earnings by individual plant 
In the full-fashioned hosiery plants the median earnings for men ex- 
ceeded $30 in all but three plants. In five plants the median earnings 
for men exceeded $50. There was no full-fashioned hosiery plant where 
the median earnings of women were as much as $30. One plant had a 
median for women of less than $12. In the seamless hosiery plants 
men’s median earnings ranged from $18 to $31, and women’s median 
earnings from less than $10 to $18. In the plants where both full- 
fashioned and seamless hosiery operations were carried on the median 
earnings tended to more nearly approximate the medians in plants 
where only full-fashioned hosiery was manufactured (Table 16). There 
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Table 16. Median Weckly Earnings of Men and Women in Each Plant 
Plant 
Full-fashioned hosiery 
Plant No. 
Men Women 
Number | Median | Number : Median 
earnings °° i earnings 
1867 
20 
878 
219 
149 
[2 
8 
tL 
272 
157 
198 
68 
268 
192 
$28.72 
25.50 
82.08 
43.50 
39.69 
30.67 
57.50 
70.99 
59.42 
60.40 
55.50 
45.056 
21.88 
1468 
24 
194 
257 
113 
152 
76 
95 
355 
250 
238 
81 
283 
24 
$20.44 
11.42 
21.49 
25.67 
25.50 
23.93 
26.25 
29.67 
22.63 
25.50 
23.50 
18.49 
17.86 
93.80 
Full-fashioned and 
seamless hosiery 
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28.7% 
22.60 
23.83 
35.38 
7 50 
19.868 
31.99 
28.99 
22.63 
26.90 
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18.17 
19.83 
83 
69 
128 
uo 
248 
19.29 
11.78 
13.50 
20.28 
18.88 
09 
36 
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4.81 
9.50 
9.28 
10.17 
17.75 
12.99 
9.59 
8.48 
11.08 
11.28 
10.50 
10.90 
9.76 
9.17 
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109 
148 
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70 
10.99 
18.60 
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‘Median not computed where the number is less than 15.