Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-06-27
how SALARIED
SUFFER MOST
. ,hor Department Complies Sta
,istics in Cities That Show
Expenditures.
goDD AND rent COME HIGH
,.~er Your Salary the Greater
s.,,ortIon Of It You Spend for
Food and Shelter, Say In
vestiqators.

IT.
u.ss,npton.-The lower your salary,
!. .reater percentage of it you spend
:. sood and shelter, according to the
/ ..t government cost of living inves-
+ tntiOn -, 49,.
-. experts after study Of hundreds
! family budgets show the actual cash
..,,sy for food and rent Is greater In
.ngles with the higher incomes, but
!. ,ha average family the expenditures
i these necessities does not increase
fast as the income.
IN baltimore, for instance, ID fam
~. With incomes under 5000 averaged
.msnditures Of $3S2.95 for food and
+ usO "A for rent. The average was 1875
~ cent of the total income for food
s "a 148 for rent. The families whose
81 ,,,omes we're $500 or more, however,
c,rage 1876 per cent less for food in
,smnarlson with total income and Ills
m for rent.
showing how much more cheaply
no hlgher-salaried families get off in
oher cities are these differences:
Pittsburgh, food 10 per cent, rent rs
oer cent; New York, food CT per cent,
vut n per cent; Boston, food AZ
a pel cent, rent So per cent; Syracuse,
food 4.3 per cent, rent 10 per cent;
sranton, food 81 per cent, rent 81
q per cent
81 How Spending Varies.
How families of varying incomes
pend them is indicated by tables
! showing average expenditures of diff
ferent groups for Philadelphia and
Camden, N. J. The table deals with
Z 1pendtures of 301 families of seven
B different income groups.
4 -Four families whose incomes We're
/ under 5000 year averaged per year
+ ia food $685. 40; clothing, $100.S7;
rent. $l76.25; fuel and light, $63.01;
+ furniture, $15.22; miscellaneous,
( nOO52 The average total expendi-
I ture per family was $S21.26, and the
Nerage number of persons per family
H43 Three families in this group re-
ported surpluses which averaged $2433
Z per family, while one had a deficit OF
L N5735
1 Seyenty-fve families with incomes
I n $500, but under $500. reported
/ expenditures that averaged for food
I SeS89, clothing, S2173.53 /; rent, $200.94;
/ fuel and light S75.66; furniture,
1852; miscellaneous, $4,000. Total
expenditures per family averaged
I y535.77 for an average number of Al
persons per family. Sixty-twO families
ended the year with an average sur
plus Of $l25.03. nine experienced an av-
Hage deficit of $103.S1, while four bal
ineed their books evenly.
= Study Many Cities.
Il Eleven families with an income Of
NoW or over averaged in their eX-
lenditures for food, $91442; clothing.
HlooS, rent, S250.36; fuel and light,
@l6; furniture, s127.33; mlscellane-
'as' B64.31. The total average ex-
wndltures per family was $2,527.S9
if an average family of 7.6 persons.
An families reported a surplus. The
/ Werage surplus was $409.52.
amilar studies have been prepared
y Inc labor department for groups Of
slesehtatiye families in Baltimore,
DVS'oh, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Chambers
,urg' "a; Dover, N. j.; Fall River,
mass; Johnstown, N. Y; Lawrence,
mass Manchester, n. H.; Newark,
- New York city, Pittsburgh,
sVfuahd' Me-; Providence, r. l.; Rut-
ANU VI; Scranton, Syracuse, Trenton,
nnsS'neld' Mass; and Wilmington,