Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor in Each Occupation on October 1, 1913: By Municipalities - Continued. NOTE. Owing to the many different rates of wages and different work-periods of telegraph operators, station agents, towermen, etc., employed at various points on the Boston & Albany Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in Massachusetts, it was not possible to present the information relative to these employees in the usual form followed in this report. In the following table is shown the number of employees in the various occupations included under the general term "telegraphers", classified by sixday and seven-day workers, the range of rates paid, i.e., the maximum and minimum, and also the median, lower quartile, and upper quartile rates. To find the median, upper quartile, and lower quartile, the members of a group are ranked in ascending order according to the rates of wages. The median is the rate half-way up the list thus constituted; the lower quartile is the rate midway between the median and the minimum; and the upper quartile is the rate midway 1 Paid on a basis of 10 hours a day. between the median and the maximum. Where the members of a given group are classified by wages one-half receive above and one-half below the median, and one-half between the lowe quartile and the upper quartile; one-fourth receive above and three-fourths below the upper quartile; and three-fourths receive above and one-fourth below the lower quartile. The medians and upper and lower quartiles have been entered only in cases in which information was reported for 20 or more employees. The daily hours of labor are shown in the form of maximum and minimum hours, it being impracticable to show the number employed at the various time-periods as these periods differed at nearly every railroad station in the Commonwealth and were generally dependent upon the time at which the trains passed by or stopped at the various stations. For similar reasons it was impracticable to present the weekly hours of labor. Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor in Each Occupation on October 1, 1913: By Municipalities—Continued. 1 Includes station agents, freight agents, and ticket agents who are not required to telegraph. * Includes telegraphers whose regular work also requires them to perform the duties of agent, cashier, clerk, switchman, or towerman. * Includes 347 towermen; 1 towerman and agent; 4 towermen, agents, and operators; 3 towermen, clerks, and operators; 66 levermen; 15 helpers; 6 announcers; 6 sheetmen; and 3 telephone operators. 4 Pay figured on a 60-hour-week basis. Outside men, 50 hours a week; inside men, 53 hours. See pages 43 and 44. Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor in Each Occupation on October 1, 1913: By Municipalities - Continued. |