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CHAPTER XVI
Present Weekly Wage

Boys wages were smallest in Greater New York

Chart tlSTo. 16 and tables No. 16 and 16-D, in the text, give the
present weekly wages for the city and village groups as of Deeem-
-ber 3, 1918. The wage given as $6.00 means wages from $4.50
to $7.49, inclusive; $9.00 means from $7.50 to $10.49, inclusive,
etc. As in the case of the beginning weekly wages, the wages paid
in New York City were smaller than those in other communities
of the State. The most plausible explanation for this seems to be
that given in the preceding chapter, namely, that older men and
boys were drawn from the smaller communities to the larger cities
by the demand for labor in the war industries and the younger
boys who could not leave home so readily were in greater demand in
the smaller conamunities. Twenjty-five percent of the boys in
Greater New York received $12.30 or less per week; in the cities
over 25,000 they received $13.20 or lesis per week; in the cities
under 25,000 they received $13.86 or less per week, and in the vil-
lages over 5,000 they received $14.25 or less per week. Fifty per-
cent of the boys of Greater New York received $15.30 or less per
week; in the cities over 25,000 they received $14.10 or less per
week; in the cities under 25,000 they received $18.10 or less per
week, and in the villages over 5,000 they received $17.25 or less
per week. Seventy-five percent of the boys in Greater New York
received $18.'9I0 or less per week; in the cities over 25,000 they
received $18.45 or less per week; in the cities under 25,000 they
received $24.90 or less per week, and in the villages over 5,000
they received $21.30 or less per week. The middle fifty percent of
the boys in Greater New York received from $12.50 to $18.90 per
week; in the cities over 2'5,000 from $13.20 to $18.45 per week; in
the cities under 25,000 from $13.86 to $24.90 per week, and in
the villages over 5,000 from $14.25 to $21.30. Tables No. 