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
Tn

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i

Jess Than $000

wa
har
=O

rool
ae, 7

1500 ond
255 FNar?
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