Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — Wagea in Connecticut. [ARTICLE]

Wagea in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Bureau of Labor Statistics issued Saturday its second statement of the incomes and expenses of workmen in the State. The report is based on returns from fifty families in all sorts of trades and in all parts of the State. In these families are 216 J persons and 79 wage-earners. The average monthly earnings of the fathers is $42.46; of six motherr, $18.85; of sixteen eons, $21.42; seven daughter, $18.13. The average income of these fifty families was $56.88 in November, 1887, and the average per person $1156. The daily income was $1.89, or 38 J cents per person. The bureau gives the cost of groceries, meat, fish and other necessaries, and all expenses for these fifty families, and goes on to figure out an average of $2.78 monthly for each family above all expenses. In these families the average expense above the father’s wages was $11.63 per month. Of the fifty families only five owned houses, and three of these were mortgaged. Twenty-two of selves in debt, and only.eleven had any savings. The highest daily wages paid were $3.50 for the men, sl-65 for boys and $1 for girls. The lowest wages were sl.lß, 65 cents and 58 ceuts respectively