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their duties entail. In some counties a special inclusive minimum 
wage has been fixed for such workers, and in others they are 
simply paid the ordinary wage with extra payments at overtime 
rates for the additional time worked. Taking England and Wales 
as a whole, it is estimated that on the average the special classes 
of workers receive about 5s. per week above the wage paid to the 
ordinary labourer. 
In many parts of the country, workers receive additional sums 
for overtime employment on seasonal work such as the hay and 
corn harvests, or have the opportunity of increasing their earnings 
by employment at piece rates on special jobs such as potato or 
sugar beet lifting, but there are no statistics available to enable 
any precise calculation to be made of the average extra earnings 
over the country as a whole. In some districts the workers’ 
opportunities for such additional earnings are practically negli- 
gible, but in some of the arable areas where crops are grown 
which require a good deal of extra seasonal labour, the extra 
earnings may be considerable and yield many of the workers sums 
which would represent an appreciable addition to their normal 
weekly wages. 
Table 30 in the Appendix shows the average weekly wages 
of ordinary agricultural workers in England and Wales since 1914.