| OCR Text |
Show 155 Women in the Labor Force Of the women in hospital nursing professions in the 15 areas sur veyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in mid-1963, highest median salaries were received by directors of nursing (table 74). In most of the areas supervisors of nurses received the second highest salaries, followed by nursing instructors, head nurses, and general duty nurses. For supervisors of nurses, nursing instructors, and head nurses, the lowest weekly reported salaries were received in Atlanta and the high est in San Francisco-Oakland. Directors of nursing and general duty City. In general, paid highest and local in State. salaries government hospitals than in higher were higher in large cities than in small private hospitals. Also, they salaries in New York were nurses were ones and in the California centers than in other areas. Salaries were the lowest in the South-general duty nurses in the South received 21 percent less weekly, on the average, than those in the West. Hospital nurses worked 40 hours a week in most areas surveyed. For work after 40 hours, they usually received either compensatory time off or straight-time pay. paid a shift differential. Nurses on late shifts generally were Table 74.- MEDIAN WEEKLY SALARIES 1 OF WOMEN IN SELECTED HOSPIALII NURSING OCCUPATIONS, 15 METROPOLITAN AREAS, MID-1963 Directors of nursing Metropolitan area Atlanta ________________ Baltimore Boston Buffalo ______________ ________________ ________________ Chicago _______________ CincinnatL Cleveland Dallas ____________ ______________ _______ . _________ Los Angeles-Long Beach_ Memphis Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York City Philadelphia Portland (Oreg.) ______________ ___ ________ ___________ _____ San Francisco-Oakland 1 .. - __ Super- visors of nurses Head nurses General duty Nursing instructors nurses $89.50 $81. 50 $75.00 $85.50 $132.50 101. 50 93.00 81. 00 106.00 164.00 109.50 101. 00 86.00 107.50 119.00 108.00 91. 00 112.00 116.50 103.00 93.00 114.50 118.50 98.50 85.50 99.50 120.00 108.50 93.00 114.50 -------- -------- 157.00 -------- 150.00 101. 50 92.50 83.50 160.50 117.50 109.00 94.50 -------- -------- 87.50 75.00 93.00 117.00 105.00 89.50 104.0"0 177.50 116.00 109.00 95.50 120.50 155.00 100.00 91. 00 79.50 102.50 -------- 165.00 -------- 161. 50 107.00 95.50 87.50 124.00 113.50 93. 50 Weekly salaries are straight-time earnings excluding extra pay for work on late shifts, --------- 116.00 --------- 123.50 as well as value of room, board, or other perquisites, and are rounded to the nearest half dollar. 2 Covers those in nongovernment hospitals. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statlstics: "Industry Wage Survey-Hospitals, Bull. No. 1409. June 1964. Mid-1963." |
