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Table 14. Weekly Earnings of Men and Women

Weekly earnings

Less than $10 _...
310 and less than
M2 conv
$12 and less than
$d eee
314 and less than
BIB mpm
$16 and less than
$18 eae
$18 and less than
B icaimmimn
$20 and less than
$25 eee
325 and less than
ot
330 and less than
$40 ae
340 and less than
$50 cnnsmmm
350 and less than
$60 eae
60 and less than
$B comer
}75 and over __...
Total ooo.

Median earnings ...

Full-fashioned hosiery

Men

‘Women

Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent

148
150
257
176
141
188
467
327
882
364

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e.5

Re

DY A

0

8
7.4
332 7.9
113 9.6
B47 19.6
735 17.0
"47 15.0
6 1.5
[4

8

2

1.9

8.3
9.7
2.3
0.6

rE

Seamless hosiery

Men

Women

Number | Per cent Number | Per cent

614
19
“ec

34.1
13.8
1.8
9.2
8.7
7.3
10.1
s2
8

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3

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“7
51

-4

or

“ny

1802 | 100.0
$12.85

06

100.0

$95.99

Median weekly earnings by occupational classification

In the full-fashioned hosiery industry the men knitters and machine
fixers are by far the most highly paid in the trade. Their median weekly
parnings ranged from $57.67 in the legging department to $70.08 in
the footing department and to $70.50 for machine fixers. No women
were employed as full-fashioned knitters in any of the establishments
included in this survey. The highest median earnings received by
women were $27.21 in the topping department. The next best paid
seeupation for women was boarding, where their median weekly earnings
 were $23.99, almost $10 less than the median for men in the
same department. Median earnings were lowest for women employed at
examining and miscellaneous occupations.
In the seamless hosiery industry the median of $25.99 for all men
was exceeded in only three departments, maintenance, machine fixing,
and rib knitting. The median of $12.35 reported for all women in the
seamless hosiery industry was exceeded in six departments, boarding,
mending, string knitting, seaming, winding, and miscellaneous. The
highest median reported for women was $19.25 in the string knitting
department, the lowest $9.30 in the examining department (Chart 8).
Median weekly earnings by geographical district
Earnings in the hosiery industry varied considerably in the different
geographical areas. The medium earnings both of men and of women