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Show 146 Women's Income and Earnings in Atlanta, Memphis, Miami, and New Orleans. women's average earnings were less than men's. In all 24 major areas Occupations in which predominated were retail receiving clerk, flatwork machine finisher, and machine presser of shirts and laundered wearing apparel. Flatwork finisher was numerically the most important occupation of women. Average hourly earnings of women in this occupation ranged from 67 cents in Memphis and 68 cents in New Orleans to $1.62 in San Francisco-Oakland. Operators of shirt-pressing machines averaged more than flatwork finishers in all areas except Minneapolis-St. Paul, women w here 'both averages were $1.46 an hour. Eating and drinking places.-A wage study made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in June 1963 indicated that three-fifths of nearly the industry's nonsupervisory employees were women and more than Among all workers, women were seven tenths in the North Central Region, three-fifths in the about half of these were waitresses. half in the West, and two-fifths in the Northwest. South, Within each region the proportions of women were substantially higher in nonmetropoli tan areas. Average hourly wages of women cashiers employed in eating and drinking places of the 24 areas studied ranged from 97 cents in Mem phis to $2.13 in San Francisco-Oakland (table 70). In Los Angeles Long Beach and in New York City-both areas in which more than a thousand were employed-their average wages were $1.75 and $1.67, respectl vely. Women counter attendants averaged 76 cents an hour in Atlanta and $1.94 in San Francisco-Oakland. Areas with the greatest number (over a thousand) employed were New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles-Long Beach, where their average hourly wages were $1.46, $1.30, and $1.20, respectively. About 21,000 waitresses were employed in Los Angeles-Long Beach; 11,000, in Chicago; and 10,000, in New York City. Their average hourly wages in these areas were $1.11, 71 cents, and 99 cents, respec tively. The highest paid waitresses were in San Francisco-Oakland ($1.66 an hour) ; the lowest paid, in Miami (38 cents an hour). Over nine-tenths of the establishments surveyed indicated that most of the waitresses received tips in addition to the employer-paid wages, and at least a majority of the waitresses were provided free meals. Pantry woman was the most important kitchen occupation for women. Average hourly wages of pantrywomen ranged from 68 cents an hour in Memphis to $2.03 in San Francisco-Oakland. The largest numbers of them were in New York City (637), Detroit (619), and Chicago (594), where their hourly earnings were $1.52, $1.22, and $1.43, respectively. |
