Full text : Cost of living in German towns

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MUNICH.

Weekly  Wages.

Weekly  Hours
of  Labour.

Food,  Drink,  &c.,  Industries  :■
Bakers,  1st  men
„  2nd  „
Beer  brewing—brewers
„  coopers
„  draymen
„  labourers
Piano  Manufactories  :—
Piano  makers
Cabinetmakers  ...
Labourers
Glass  Painting  :—
Designers
Glaziers  ...
Painters  ...
Burners  ...
Miscellaneous  Trades  :—
Rubber  goods  makers  ...
„  labourers
Brick  makers  at  presses
„  labourers
Carmen  ...

30s.  3d
26s.  3d
36s.
31s.  6d
25s.
22s.  to  23s.
36s.  to  40s.
30s.  „  40s.
21s.  „  24s.
45s.  to  48s.
27s.  „  34s.
45s.  „  48s.
30s.  „  45s.
20s.  5d  to  25s.  2d
16s.  lOd  „  19s.  2d
25s.  3d
16s.  lOd
20s.  to  25s.

84*
84*
644  to  65
60
60
60
54
54
54

48  to  54
48  „54
48  „  54
48  „  54
60
60
58
58

*  Including  intervals.
Appended  are  the  rates  of  wages  and  hours  of  labour  of  municipal
employees  at  the  same  date  :—

Weekly  Wages.

Weekly  Hours
of  Labour.

Road  Construction  and  Maintenance
Foremen...
Labourers
Street  Paving  and  Cleaning  :—
Foremen
Sweepers  and  Labourers
Depot  labourers
Gasworks  :—
Foremen...
Stokers  ...
Labourers
Waterworks  :—
Foremen...
Labourers
Electric  Lighting  and  Power  :—
Engine-men
Stokers  ...
Erectors  ...
Fitters  ...
Assistants

31s.  lOd
19s.  2d  to  24s.
31s.  lOd
18s.  to  24s.
19s.  2d  „  21s.  7d
28s.  6d  to  34s.  lOd
25s.  2d.  „  31s.  2d
19s.  2d  „  25s.  2d
33s.  7d
19s.  lOd  to  25s.  2d
23s.  8d  to  30s.
21s.  to  23s.  8d
22s.  lOd  to  29s.  8d
18s.  3d  „  29s.  8d
18s.  to  22s.  lOd

60
60
60
60
60

60
60
60
60
57
57
57
57

Tramways  (private)  :—
Drivers
Conductors

23s.  Id
22s.  6d  to  27s.

54  to  60
54  „60

Representing  wages  at  Berlin  by  100,  the  proportionate  figures  for  Munich
are—for  the  building  trades,  85  for  skilled  men  and  89  for  labourers  ;  for  the
engineering  trades,  83  for  skilled  men  and  89  for  labourers  ;  and  for  the
printing  trades,  94.
Housing  and  Rents.
Munich  is  essentially  a  town  of  large  houses  of  the  "  barrack  ”  type  and  of
small  tenements,  and  this  characteristic  tends  to  become  rather  more  pronounced
than  otherwise.  The  word  house  is  here  used,  of  course,  in  the  German  sense,  as
indicating  an  individual  block  of  tenement  dwellings,  with  its  series  of  flats,  and  its
front  and  back  buildings  as  the  case  may  be,  in  short,  the  entire  structure  which
            
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