TABLE 191 
AVERAGE RATIOS OF NET EARNINGS TO EARNING Assets, FoR MEMBER Banks, BosTtoN FEDERAL RESERVE 
District, CLASSIFIED BY THE POSITION OF RATIOS OF GROSS EARNINGS AND oF TorarL EXPENSE 
TO EARNING ASSETS RELATIVE To THEIR RESPECTIVE AVERAGES FOR ALL BANKS* 
Rar10s: Total Expense to Earning Assets 
~ 
N 
-— 
RATIOS: Gross 
Earnings to 
Earning Assets 
Position 
Above 
Below 
Above 
or 
Below 
Above 
r Qt 
ire 
[. 16 
rel 
1.86 
Average 
Below 
2.72 
23 
1.08 
aR a 
| 
2.18 
[Tey d 
Above 
or 
Below 
2.11 
228 
1.67 
A AM 
1.87 
| 
| 8:8 
Above 
£.78 
200 
.IO 
Ra 
i.81 
2T2 
1024 
Below 
2.04 
6a 
| 
[.02 
122 
2.16 
tof 
Above 
or 
Relow 
2.07 
103 
rt Or 
21¢ 
1.82 
108 
Ahove 
1.84 
126 
£.22 
ye 
1.61 
2 OM) 
r'Q28 
Relow 
2.81 
50 
.0Q7 
rea 
2 20 
Above 
or 
Below 
2.18 
18s 
.73 
a23¢ 
J3 
Ts 
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*The ratios which were the same as the average were. in each case, distributed alternately ABovE and BELow. The figures in small type represent the numbera 
of bank-vears to which the ratios apply.