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 
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Jess Than $000 
wa 
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ae, 7 
1500 ond 
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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