WOMEN'S SALARIES

Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 10

WOMEN'S SALARIES

A woman with a salary of more than £6OO a year belongs to the exceptional minority; Mrs Chase Going Woodhouse, of the United States Bureau of Economics, told the National Education Association in reporting the results of gi salary survey of more than 6,000 sinjglo women engaged in fulltime jobs.

“As oinc might expect, by far the greater Kiumber —2,621 to be exact—were in educational work, and only 718 in all tfther fields,” Mrs Woodhouse said. “Of those in educational work 194 wer«> in administrative work and 2,127 teaching. “ The best paid women in this group were tho three college presidents, with an average of 8,200 dollars. Next came the nine principals of junior high schools, with an average salary of 6,859 dollars; four normal school principals, with 3,800 dollars; and fifty-two college deans, with 6,426 dollars. In teaching the highest average salary was 2,457 dollars for the colleges, and the lowest 1,632 dollars for the grade schools.!

“Apart from educational work fiftytwo occupations were reported. The best paid woman was an executive in a corarnercia organisation. She made 34,000 dollars a year besides dividends on her stock. I think she illustrates a practice which we ought to encourage —that is, to enter the family business. This step, so usual for men, is quite exceptional for women. “The usual assumption that business pays better than the professions is not true of this group. The managers of cafeterias and ten rooms averaged 3,600 dollars and interior decorators 3,146 dollars; but all other women in business averaged less than 6,000 dollars. In the professional groups statisticians averaged 3,750 dollars, lawyers 4,587 dollars, physicians 3.551 dollars, and research workers 3,271 dollars.

“ Ig a higher degree an economic asset? To a librarian an M.A. is worth, on the average, 193 dollars a year, and a Rh.D. 600 dollars. This is good interest on the investment.”