Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-24
GAINING
OVER WAGES.
Cost Of Living in New Jersey Ad.
VanCes Four Pei Cent in 1906
Steady Growth in 7 Years.

LINEN AOANg DSAs MI
Stokes has received the twenty-ninth
annual report of Winton c. Carlson
chief of the New Jersey State Bureau
Of Statistics, for the year ending
October 81, 1906.
The value of the industries of the
state, the wages paid to labor, the
cost of living and like information
are carefully compiled. The most
striking item, perhaps, is the show
ing that the cost of living has in
creased at a greater rate than the
growth of industries or the raising
of wages.
In manufactures the increase for
the year has run from 1.6 per cent. in
the aggregate value of product of "a
per cent. in the cost of raw materials.
The increase in wages paid has been
3.8 per cent. The cost of living has
increased steadily during the last
seven years, the percentage being
4.6 a year as compared with 1889.
The figures in the report are based
on returns from 2,018 manufactur-
ing establishments, all of which en-
ploy at least ter persons and have
at least $4,000 invested. The total
amount of capital invested in all of
the establishments is 1921, 090,460.
BY the preceding report it was shown
to be $509,753,252. The increase Is,
therefore, $11,333,208, or 90 per
cent.
The cost value of all the raw ma
terial used in the 2,01S establish
ments was $352,715,12 1875 for the last
year and $341,074,722 for the pre-
ceding year. The industries showing
the largest OUTLAWS for raw materials
are: Refining oils, $40,03S,631;
broad and ribbon silk goods, $24,'
SO2,773; smelling and refining pre-
cious metals, $23,109,S61; wire and
wire cloth, Sic, 274,138; food prod
ucts, $14,9O4, 1885,; rubber goods
hard andssoft, $~13,931,S28; woollens
and worsted goods, $13,221,535, and
chemical products, $12,630,82S.
The selling value of the goods man.
featured in the plants was $58S,069,-
S54, as compared with $~578,647,032
for the year before. The average
value of the material used in each es-
tablishment was $169,829 and the
average value of the goods produced
was $291,412. Capital and labor
the industrial forces employed, are
thus shown to have added an aver
age of $121,583 to the value of the
raw stock used in the factories.
The average number of persons
employed in the factories for the
year was ,239,113. OF these 49,
$50 were males and 58,S97 were fe-
males. The number of employees un-
der sixteen years of age was 6,357, or
81 per cent. The wages paid by
all of the establishments aggregated
$116, SO5, 243. This amount, how
ever, includes only the money paid
to the actual wage Salaries
of officers, superintendent, ETC., are
not included. The average yearly
earning was $48S.49. The year be-
fore the average was $470.47. The
industry showing the highest aver
age yearly earning was that of the
DreWefleS, IHe dlnouHt lholo pSihS
$S49.37.
In arriving at the cost of living the
bureau officers obtained this years
retail prices for a selected bill oil
goods that includes the standard
food supplies for the ordinary family.
Prices were obtained from all estab-
lished dealers in all parts of the state
and the average was thus computed.
The average cost for the selected bill
of goods this year was $10.97, an
increase of four per cent. over the
year before.