Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-23
ier is $500, and the range is to $4,000.
CLERKS AND statesmen.


In the dry goods jobbing business the
foreign buyer of hosiery, employed by
leading wholesale house During the
extreme war times some salaries in the
dry goods jobbing trade reached $50, 900
per year, and the men who received
them are represented by the case first
cited under the last subhead above.
In the wholesale dry goods trade at
present the cases are rare of statesmen re-
eeiving So, 900 per year. During the war
$4,000 was frequently paid. The pres
ent range is from $1,000 to $500 per year.
The salaries of statesmen are based upon
the trade they can command. Men who
ten, twelve and fifteen years ago were
commanding from s., 900 to So, 900 sala-
ries, NOW rarely get 81 900. There are men
selling goods behind retail counters to-
day who, previous TO and during the war,
received SIS and $40 per week. For the
past three years and at present these are
glad to receive $40 and $16 per week,
while SIS salary in the retail trade is
called very good, as such things go. How
ever, "smart'' men, with a large trade
well located, can still command from $4,000
to 50, 900 in the wholesale dry goods trade,
with an occasional exception for some
thing higher, as has been said.
In the clothing business there is proba-
bly, not a $1,000 salary paid in Boston.
The reputed member of one clothing firm
in the city gets $6, 900 per year as buyer,
and another in the same house receives
SO, 800 as a salesman. The range of sal
aries and wages is about the same in dry
goods.
OTHER BRANCHES.
In the insurance business, one Presi-
dent of mutual fire insurance company
receives a salary of S., 900. No other in
stance occurs in this city, in any kind of
insurance, where an officer receives over.
Sc, 900; and no Secretary of an insurance
company receives over $2,5O0 annually,
and the cases are few where that salary is
paid. In dry goods, clothing, boots and
shoes, etc., there are many statesmen with
no fixed salaries. but who sell upon COM
mission, their compensation depending
entirely upon the amount of sales.
In the wholesale boot and shoe trade
the highest salary paid will not be found
over s., 900, while the range from 81 900
to$3 900 for exceptional wages. The gen.
eral range is about the same as in the dry
goods trade. In wholesale groceries the
highest salary does not exceed 81, 900, with
exceptional range from 81 900 to 81, 800.
BooKKEEPRRs, ETC.
The great number of failures of busi-
ness houses, the winding up and suspen-
sion of others, and the cutting down of
operations in many that are still engaged
in operations have thrown a great num-
ber of bookkeepers out of situations, and
the ranks of the unemployed include many.
of the most efficient and competent men of
this class During the years of 1876-77-78
50, 500 to 5000 was extra large compensa-
tion for head bookeepers and confidential
clerk. To-day. the range of salaries is from
$500 to 800, while the entry clerks find
$4oO high wages. The market is largely
overstocked, and the number receiving
what may be now called a large salary is
very small.
In produce, provisions, hardware, iron
and steel, and the like departments, no
high salaries are paid at paesent, and 81
900 must be regarded as exceptional. In
furnaces and stoves one firm pays its
principal employe 50, 500, and has no sal
aries under 81, 900.
In the very largest retail dry goods
houses very few men receive salaries
as high as So 900 per year. A few heads
of departments have salaries from So, 800
to $4,000. The wages for clerks and sales
| men we have given above. One man, the
confidential clerk and credit man of one of
the largest Boston dry goods houses, re-
ceives SO, 600; but this is exceptional,
and with the other cases cited bears out
the assertion that certain class of en-
ployes receive wages Independent of the
condition of trade or s'the times.''
For commercial travellers, of which
there are about six hundred of all kinds
in the New England Commercial Trav-
elers' Association, a salary of $4,000 is
exceptional and the outside, while 81 ,00C
would not be despised by the majority.
few women, the heads of depart
ments in dress suit making for our large
stores, get about 81 900 per year salary
and this amount has remained unaffected
generally by the changes in ''the times
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