SOME WAGE EXAMPLES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 77, 27 September 1918, Page 8

SOME WAGE EXAMPLES

-£ hree members of the tramways staff ■jhowed a Post reporter their . wages 'dockets for the part fortnight.' One was amotorman, *who has been inthe seryiee: for twenty years and is paid at the iaie;6f Is 4d an hour. His pay for the ■period' mentioned without overtime was £%.'&&. The first week he worked 52 minutes overtime, and the second week 10 hours 15 minutes, for which he received £1 2s. The bonus amounted to 7e,2d, making his wages for the fortnight'^ 13s 2d, or £4 6s 7d a week. The next was a conductor, who during the first week worked 49 hours 34 minutes, and the second week 51 hours j 57 iminutes, a total of 101 hours 31 i minutes. He received Is l^d' per hour, the bonus was 5s 7d, and hie fortnight's ■wages amounted to £5 17s Bd, at the ratelof £2*lßs lOd per week. However, ■heHvorked 12 hours 48 minutes overtime, including 9 hours 20 minutes on a Sunday.l That represented £1 Is 2d overtime, bringing Ms wages for the' fort- 7 night" to £6 18s 10d, or £3 9s. 5d a week." The third case was that of a first-year conductor, unmarried, who worked 48 hours the first week and 49 hours 3 minutes the next week. , His war bonus . amounted to 5s sd, making his 1 total wages for the fortnight £5 12s 6dj, or at tho rate of £2 16s 3d a week.