BACHELORS’ PAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 3

BACHELORS’ PAY.

PLAN TO GIVE THEM LESS. AND MARRIED MEN MORE. To increase the number of children of the intellectual and professional classes of the American nation Professor Williams McDougall has proposed to Harvard University a general reduction of the salaries paid to bachelors and a corresponding enlargement of the emoluments received by married men with children. The professor's proposals are addressed to universities, schools, banks, and big corporations. He says: “Let the positions which are now .paid £BOO a year bo remunerated in future, when they are Ailed by bachelors, with £SOO. On.marriage, let a man, regardless of what salary he is drawing, receive an adidtional £IOO a year; and at the birth of each child, let him begin to receive an additional £75 a year, and continue to receive it so long as that child is living and under the age of 24.

“Then, instead' bf paying £BOO a year to a bachelor, we would have the following scale of salaries: To a bachelor, £SOO. To a married man with no children, £6OO. To a married man with, one child, £675. , Married, with two children, £750. Married, with three children, £823, and so on.” t