The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-16
Accurate Wage Statistics Compiled
by the State Bureau Of
Labor.
Weekly Income Of Various Glasses
Of Employees in Minneapolis
Is Shown.

The annual report of the state labor
commissioner, which will be. issued in a
few days, contains some wage statistics
taken from factories and mercantile estab-
llshments that are of much interest and
value
The department inspected in Mime
apolis during 1902 1,062 manufacturing es-
adjustments, employing 30,357 people and
145 on-manufacturing establishments
with 6.219 employees.
In the retail and department stores Of
Minneapolis wages We're paid as follows to
clerks: $34 a week, men; $33 a week, 2
mon; $32, men; ss1, men; $50, Is men;
$50, men: s2s, 4 men; s27, 3 men; SIG.
man; $25. "A men: $24, l man; $23,
men, s22. 10 men; $21. 9 men; $50, 66 mel;
and woman $19, men; SIS, 70 men, II
women; SIT, men. SIG, 81 men. 16 won1-
en-; SIS, 119 men % women; $14. Is men.
II women; $13, p men, women; $12.
SO men, g. women; SILL 30 men, . women;
SO, 40 men, IS women; 80. IS men, 5S
women; So. 40 men. 144 women; 81. 20
men, 1913 women: S., 6S men, las women;
IS, II men, 1913 women.
| Wages for tailors in Minneapolis range
from s12 week to $50 Skilled operators
in steam laundries are paid from Sc to s1S
and unskiled from 81 to s10
| In the saw mills wages are given for
flers ranging from SIS to $42 q week, with
one man receiving $54, one $50, one $66,
| ana one SSu. odWSeiS Sct from :Ao ~ '1c,
with four paid $54, and one $50. Other
skilled operatives get from $l4 to $3c
Compositns are paid from $12 to $31,
the largest number getting from $14 to
SIS, while 20 get $24 and SO get SGT week.
Pressmen are paid from $12 to So, stero-
typers SIS to $22. engravers $14 to $50.
and pressfeeders S. to IA.
Plumbers to the number of 146 receive
| $2i week, the pay ranging from S21 to
$27; steanfitters run as low as SlS, but
SO draw $24 and get $50 a week. -.
Harness making pays skilled labor 81
to SIS a week. Garment manufacturing
| brings wages from SO to SIS for women,
and from $12 to s31 for men. In making
fur garments the skilled labor is paid s19
Ito $40, all being men.
Engineers in grain elevators are paid
SIS to $50 a week, the largest number get
ting SIG. The other skilled labor is paid
s12 to $40, and the unsklled SO to S12.
In the flour mills milers receive $lS
with few exceptions. MillWrlghts get SIT
to SIS with a few at sol. Packers and
nalers get $12 to SIS. .z.t.. !:
/ Coopers' wages range from $13 to $24
a week; machine operators get $40 to III
and the unskilled labor SO to $40.
-Cigarmakers receive from Sill to $2l
Carpenters have a wide range of wages
the class including stone and brick ma
sons, plasterers, etc. There are Il at $l'
a week. % at SIG, SO at SIT, 531 at SIS. =
, at SO, 5 at $40, 4 at sci, 81 at So, 1876 a
s24. 2 at $26, "a at $40 and 2 at 1884,
= Brewers are paid from SIS to $l7 and tn
Transfers from $11 to $1S a
Boilermakers get $13 to SO, iron-mod
!, crs s12 to s21, -pttern- makers $12 to SCI
. blacksmiths in the shops $12 to SIS, ma
chinists $12 to $40. e..
Bakers are paid s12 to SIG. cabinet
makers receive $12 to S24 and machin
operators in sash and door factories iron
SO to SIS. .
Almost half of the space in the repor
/ is taken with the inquiry made into tn
condition Of wage earners, giving the an
+ swers received from the circular letter
l sent out by the department. They includ
V recommends tons Of every character, fFor
+; public ownership of railroads to the eight
hour day. The replies received from do
t nestle servants and their employers ar
: given at considerable length.