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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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t group, or20.7 per cent, being at $125, although 52.0 per cent received $150 andover. Tlie Avages of mates ranged from $35 to $130, 19.5 per centreceiving $100 and over and 35.0 per cent receiving $75 to $100. Inother words, 54.5 per cent receive^ $75 and over. The wages of seamenranged from $20 to $70, 64.0 per cent receiving $45 to $50. Engineersranged from $50 to $175, 65.6 per cent receiving $100 and over. Fire-men ranged from $45 to $80. 45.8 per cent receiving $55. Of the totalnumber employed in all occupations, 451, or 3.4 per cent, received from$150 to $250 per month; 1,122, or 8.4 per cent, from $100 to $150; 1.093,or 8.2 per cent, from $75 to $100; 4,739, or 35.7 per cent, from $50 to$75; while 5,889, or 44.3 per cent, received less than $50. It is worth noting that the total amount of wages paid to menemployed on tlie vessels engaged in the trade of the port of San Fran-cisco amounts to. ;i))))roximatcly..$10,000,000 per annum. S4 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF LxVBOR STATISTICS.
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INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS—TRANSPORTATION. 85 Chinese and Japanese considered in the preceding table were employedprincipally on vessels engaged in the Oriental trade. The Chinese,almost without exception, are aliens and are not allowed to laud in an.\merican port. They are paid in :\Iexiean silver. Avhich has been)v,luced to its equivalent in United States gold coin. The larger partnl the Orientals are employed as coal passers, firemen, seamen, andwaiters. The range of wages was from $2.50 to $25 (gold) per month.Of the total of 1,235. 127, or 10.3 per cent, received from $10 to $25 permonth; Avhile 1,108, or 89.7 per cent, received less than $10. Theprevailing rate of wages appears to be $7, 60.0 per cent of the totaln^eoiving that amount. steam Railroads Employes in Califopnia, Fiscal Year 1907-08. OCCLPATlON. Numberof Em-ployes. Lowest I Highest Averajre ! Average Daily Daily Wage. I Wage. General oflicers Other officers General office clerks Station agents Other station men Engine M

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