TABLE 3.-NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND OF WAGE EARNERS, AND AVERAGE HOURS AND EARNINGS IN FOUNDRIES AND MACHINE SHOPS, 1929 AND 1931, BY SEX AND STATE For less than 3 wage earners in this establishment, data included in total. 'Included in total in 1929. 91909-32-10 TABLE 3.-NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND OF WAGE EARNERS, AND AVERAGE HOURS AND EARNINGS IN FOUNDRIES AND MACHINE SHOPS, 1929 AND 1931, BY SEX AND STATE-Continued 1 For less than 3 wage earners in this establishment, data included in total. * Included in total in 1929. TABLE 3.-NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND OF WAGE EARNERS, AND AVERAGE HOURS AND EARNINGS IN FOUNDRIES AND MACHINE SHOPS, 1929 AND 1931, BY SEX AND STATE-Continued Hours and Earnings, 1931, in Selected Occupations, by Sex and State TABLE 4 shows average hours and earnings in four representative occupations in foundries and four in machine shops in each State in 1931. It illustrates the variations in average hours and earnings in all occupations in each industry in different States and makes easy the comparison of the averages in each occupation in the table for any one State with those in the same occupation in any other State. pation under foundries, ranged by States from 61.2 cents for the State with the lowest, to 97.8 cents for the State with the highest Average earnings per hour of hand molders, floor, the second occuin this occupation in the study of the industry, averaged 78.2 cents average, and for all States combined, or for all employees included per hour. Average full-time hours per week ranged by States from 44.9 to 55.1 and for all States averaged 50.0 per week. Average full-time earnings per week ranged by States from $29.22 to $45.31, and for all States averaged $39.10. |