Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-29
PROFESSIONAL. INCOMES.
A Comparison Of Figures in England
and in America.

There has been much discussion
from time to time. incidentally to our
tariff controversies. concerning the rel
atiye wages of labor in England and
the United States. Price Collier has
something 10 say in the current North
American Review concerning the re
wards received by another class of
workers in England in his suggestive
article on professional incomes. To
make comparisons better understood
the writer cautions the reader that u
salary of 5000 in the United States
is equivalent to about $4,000 in Eng
land, which, he remarks, lis due TO the
fact that where men and women are
cheap. everything dependent upon men
and women for it's existence is cheap
in proportion.
There are In England as well as
here a few persons of exceptional ahil-
ity, or who have enjoyed peculiar op-
portunitieS, who receive compensation
for their services which may be called
"princely" and hold places which can
scarcely be regarded as attanable by
the vast majority of professional men.
The eminence reached in medicine by
the English physician, Sir Andrew
Clark, who died Il few months ago,
brought him an income, it is reported,
of from $4,000 to 100000 year,
Such success, or that of the famous
lawyers, throws little light ON the re.
wards of the average medical or legal
practitioners.
England pays its eminent educators
salaries which make those received by
American college presidents seem pal
try. The head masters of Harrow and
Elton schools receive from $4,000 to
So, 900 Il year, and 80 assistant mas
ters ut Elton receive from $4,000 to
/ $4,000. While several of them enjoy
/ the profits of boys boarding schools,
which Mr.. Collier AYERS bring in an
additional income of from $500 to
| $4,000 Il year These figures are so far
beyond the highest rewards of college
and seminary teaching in the United
States that 1t is useless to institute
detailed comparisons.
Taking all the schools of England
and the United States into account the
writer of the article thinks that the
great prizes of the teachers profession
in England are far more valuable than
here, but ''mcdiocrity is more distress
ingly underpaid" there and the aver.
age salary is Slightly less. One of the
singular features of the higher teach
ings In England is that Elton ana Har.
row head masters receive many times
larger salaries than the heads of the
great colleges.
Mr.. Collier fixed the average income
of the ministers of the English Estab
lished church ut 5000 Il year; harris
ters, 81 200; physicians, $1,000; dissent
ing ministers of least drawing pow
err" $3.50 The average incomes of the
ministers and doctors are less than
these. No comparison can be made be
tween the incomes of lawyers of tho
two countries rs the average Is given
only for barristers and not for the
entire profession, here known as law
yers."
The English judges are, on the
" Iiol'' hiNNi b'Lt1L pau ohl .
The lord high chancellor receives
$4,000 year, and no English city
or county judge receives less than
$1,000. The salary Of the chief justice
of the United States is $10.500; justices
$4,000; United States circuit judges
$4,000; United States district judges
5000.
After n survey of the whole field OF
professional rewards In England, the
result is summoned up In the state
ment that there Is no such difference
between the income of success and the
income of mediocrity In the United
States as may be found in England
zone may say that success is more
difficult Of attainment and means more
In England, and that failure means
less in America