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spectively. Median earnings in the full-fashioned industry for 
men were $32.49, for women $20.77. In the seamless industry 
the median earnings for men were $25.99, for women $12.35. 
Men employed as full-fashioned knitters and machine fixers had 
the highest median earnings. Men’s median earnings exceeded 
$30 in only one other department, boarding. The highest median 
reported for women in full-fashioned hosiery was in the topping 
department. In only one other occupational group, boarding, 
did the median weekly earnings for women exceed $23. 
Median weekly earnings were highest both for men and women 
in the Philadelphia area. 
Overtime work for women in the full-fashioned hosiery industry 
increased their earnings slightly but men working overtime had 
lower median earnings than those working full time. In the 
seamless hosiery industry men working overtime had appreciably 
higher median earnings than those working full time. There 
was no overtime work for women in seamless hosiery plants. 
Undertime work lowered the weekly earnings of both men and 
women. In full-fashioned hosiery men working undertime had 
median weekly earnings of $5 less than those working full 
time; the median earnings for women working undertime were 
$2 less than those working full time. In the seamless hosiery 
industry, undertime work reduced by $7 the median earnings for 
both men and women. 
Median weekly earnings for men in individual hosiery plants 
ranged from $18.17 in a seamless hosiery plant to $70.99 in a 
full-fashioned plant. For women the lowest plant median was 
$8.43 in a seamless hosiery plant and the highest $29.67 in a 
full-fashioned hosiery plant. 
Annual earnings of less than $1000 were reported for nearly 
one-fifth of the men and more than one-third of the women in the 
full-fashioned hosiery industry. Nearly one-half of the men 
earned $2500 or more; only three women earned as much as 
$2500. In the seamless hosiery industry, annual earnings were 
lower. Nearly one-fifth of the men and three-fourths of the 
women earned less than $1000. Less than 10 per cent of the 
men and no women had annual earnings of $2500 or more. 
The median annual earnings for men was $2323 in full-fashioned 
hosiery and $1508 in seamless. For women the median was 
$1162 in full-fashioned hosiery and $824 in seamless. 
Instability of employment as an outstanding problem in the hosiery 
industry is emphasized by the findings of this report. The fluctuations 
in employment were almost as great in the flourishing full-fashioned 
hosiery industry as in the less prosperous seamless hosiery industry. 
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