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Show 145 Table 68.-AvERAGE HOURLY WAGES OF WOMEN IN SELECTED HOTEL 1 OCCUPATIONS, 23 METROPOLITAN AREAS, JUNE 1963 Elevator Chambermaids Number Metropolitan area Northeast: Boston ____ Buffalo ___ - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - Newark and Jersey City ------------ New York City Philadelphia Pittsburgh South: Atlanta MiamL New Orleans North Central: ___ Chicago - __ Cincinna ti Cleveland Detroit - - Milwaukee - - - - - -- - - - - - - --- --- - - - - - ____ - _ ____ Indianapolis Kansas City - - ____ _____ - - ___ -_ -_ - ____ ____ Memphis; - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - --- ___ ______ - _________ Minneapolis-St. PauL ___________ St. Louis West: Denver __________ _________ --- Los Angeles-Long Beach ___________ Portland San Francisco- __________ Oakland 1 _________ Average hourly wages Woitresses operators 2 725 $1. 24 265 1. 20 Number 19 Average hourly 2 wages Number Average hourly 2 wages 404 $0.93 $1.28 200 .90 170 .98 10 .96 580 1.00 6, 148 1.51 217 1. 83 115 .80 493 1.13 94 1.15 183 .75 609 1.39 33 1. 62 532 .72 527 .53 95 .48 84 .22 2'77 .51 13 .32 96 .29 1,277 .85 67 .85 812 .51 549 .51 208 .32 3,014 1.20 204 1.43 61'7 .88 258 1.07 33 1.15 193 .80 547 1.15 64 1. 22 295 .80 659 1.13 56 1.41 233 273 .84 42 .82 169 529 .93 47 .93 253 .94 .39 .63 244 1.25 214 .85 519 1. 29 35 1.37 557 1. 06 832 1.05 52 1. 21 169 .83 527 1.07 16 1. 05 358 .89 1,482 1.26 47 1.53 457 1. 15 1. 34 12 1.42 245 1. 24 413 1.56 252 Refers to year-round hotels, tourist courts, and motels. for overtime. tips and the value of free meals, room, and uniforms, as well as premium pay 2 Excludes Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Industry Wage Survey-Hotels Motels, June 1963." Bull. No. 1406. Jilly 1964. and hour nonsupervisory women employees as a group were paid 17 cents an less than man; in the North Central Ragion, 24 cents less; and in the Northeast and West, about 30 cents less. Lawndry and. (Jle(Jffl;.ing serolcee=«Women employed in this industry in 24 metropolitan areas in June 1963 received hourly wages ranging from 79 cents in Memphis to $1.76 in San Francisco-Oakland (table an hour 69) At least three-fifths of the women earned less than $1.00 . |
