Cost of Labor and Subsistence in Lower Silesia in 1868.
The wages of the ... joiners in machine-works, in piano factories, amount to from 72 cents to $1.08 per day ...
The highest wages paid to a very skillful joiner in a piano-forte factory were $12.24 per week.
| Skilled Trades in London, Weekly Wages in 1871. | |||
| Trades. | Number of members. | Rates of wages. | |
| Summer. | Winter. | ||
| Pianoforte-makers | 400 | 16* | 16* |
| * Per hour. | |||
| Table showing the number of work-people and wages of men, women, and children, in the following branches of manufacture, in Paris, in 1860. | ||||||
| Manufactures. | Number of work- people employed | Wages of-- | ||||
| Men. | Women. | Child- ren. | ||||
| Range. | Aver- age.* | Range. | Aver- age.* | Aver- age.* | ||
| Piano-fortes and harps | 2,101 | 60 to 2.40 | 1.06 | ...... | 60 | 35 |
| * The figures given in these columns are the computed averages--not the mean rates. | ||||||
| Statement showing the rates of weekly wages in the town of Barmen during the year 1867. | |||
| Trades. | Classification of workmen. | Weekly wages. | Hours of work per day. |
| Piano-manufactory and organ-building | Piano-forte makers | 4,04 | ... |
| Organ-builders | 4.20 | ... | |
| Other workmen | 3.60 | ... | |
| Rates paid for mechanical labor in Berlin. | |
| Occupations. | Per day.* |
| Piano-makers | 0.90 |
| *Hours of labor, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. | |
| Wages in factories [in Würtemberg], (by decades.) | |||||
| Industrial establishments. | 1830-'39. | 1840-'49. | 1850-'59. | 1860-'65. | 1872. |
| Pianos... | 36 | 41½ | 50½ | 64 | 97 |
| NOTE.--The prices in this and subsequent statements were given in florins, which have been computed at 40 cents. | |||||
| Table showing the rates of wages in Sweden (in Swedish and in United States money) in 1873. | ||||
| Occupation. | Number of hours of actual labor. | Wages per day. | Remarks | |
| Swedish money (rix- dollars.) | United States gold. | |||
| Cabinet makers: Best... | 10 | 2.86 | 0.76 | Generally work by hour ; several hands at one shop save 200 rix- dollars a year. |
| Average... | 10 | 2.31 | 0.62 | |
| Apprentices... | 10 | 2.00 | 0.52 | |
| Piano-makers... | ... | ... | ... | About the same as cabinet makers. |
| NOTE.--3.76 rix-dollars (3 rix-dollars and 76 öre) are equivalent to $1, United States gold... | ||||
| Statement showing the wages paid in San Francisco and vicinity in the years 1869 and 1874, for the following kinds of labor. | ||
| Occupation | Wages in 1869. | Wages in 1874. |
| Piano-makers...per day... | ....... | 4.00 to 4.50 |
| Table showing the average weekly wages or earnings of persons employed in piano-forte manu- factories in Boston, Mass., and St. Louis, Mo. | |||||
| Occupation. | Boston, Mass. | St. Louis, Mo. | Occupation. | Boston, Mass. | St. Louis, Mo. |
| Case makers | $20.00 | $25.00 | Gilders | $19.00 | $20.00 |
| Action makers | 20.00 | 24.00 | Regulators | 24.00 | 30.00 |
| Key-makers | 22.00 | 30.00 | Packers | 12.00 | 14.00 |
| Tuners of reeds | 28.00 | 31.00 | Gig-sawyers | 18.00 | 20.00 |
| Fly-finishers | 22.00 | 26.00 | Engineers | 18.00 | 20.00 |
| Varnishers | 13.00 | 18.00 | Laborers | 10.00 | 12.00 |
| Reed-makers | 20.00 | 25.00 | Apprentices | 6.00 | 5.00 |
| Reed-board makers | 19.00 | 22.00 | Foremen | 40.00 | 40.00 |
| Carvers | 24.00 | 30.00 | Teamsters | 13.00 | 15.00 |
| Trimming-makers | 18.00 | 20.00 | Clerks | 14.00 | 18.00 |
| Blacksmiths | 18.00 | 19.00 | Book-keepers | 14.00 | 18.00 |
| Hours of labor per week, 60. | |||||