Women's apparel prices, Average price for a heavyweight coat, car coat, sweater, street dress, house dress, blouse, slacks, slip, girdle, brassiere, panties, nightgown, pajamas, nylon hose, street shoes, casual shoes, house slippers, hat and gloves.
Girl's apparel prices, Average price for a heavy coat, raincoat, sweater, dress, skirt, blouse, slip, panties, robe, anklets, street shoes and boots. Clothing and shoe prices paid by farmers, Provides average retail prices paid by farming families for men's, women's, boy's and girl's clothing and shoes. City worker's family budget pricing Source: BLS Bulletin, Electrical appliance prices, Vacuum cleaner, clothes washing machine, toaster, iron, refrigerator and gas or electric range.
Newspaper, radio, phonograph, record album and TV, Radios, television sets and TV repair, records, phonograph players and newspaper subscriptions. Furniture prices, Prices for various categories of home furniture. Housewares and cleaning supplies prices, Carpet sweeper, dishes, lamps, light bulbs, laundry soap, detergent, bleach, floor wax, scouring powder, toilet tissue and more.
Personal grooming products prices, Retail price of toothpaste, shaving cream, shampoo, soap, tissues like Kleenex , a home hair permanent kit and more. Household linens, curtains, rugs etc. Retail prices in New York City, May Prices are reported and methodology described on pages of this statistical report from the United Nations source.
Common household item prices paid by farmers, Tables show the average retail prices paid by farmers for household electrical items such as televisions, refrigerators, home freezers, air conditioners, washing machines and clothes dryers, toasters, irons, stoves, electric window fans and gas ranges. Mail order catalogs for Christmas, s WishbookWeb. Median gross rent by state, Gross rent is defined as "the monthly amount of rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities electricity, gas, water and sewer and fuels oil, coal, kerosene, wood, etc.
This source shows data by state and for the U. Census of Housing , choose unadjusted figures. Rental and homeownership costs by metro area, Table shows annual rental costs including water, heat, light, cooking fuel and refrigeration.
In the same table, homeownership costs show the estimated purchase price of houses in , the average mortgage payment and annual property taxes. These are simple nationwide figures. Monthly rent by occupation and sex - Table 35 of this Census report shows median rent paid by males with and without occupational breakouts beginning on page ; then median rent paid by female householders by occupation starting on page Median home values by state, Median home values for states and for the U. Farm real estate values in the 48 contiguous states, Figures include both land and buildings.
Table shows price per acre for each year. Utilities - Average household expenditures, Shows average monthly payments for electricity, gas, fuel oil, water, sewer in 40 metro areas. Electric bills, residential Shows average electric bills for residential as well as commercial and industrial customers. Medical services - Average costs by city, Shows the average rates for hospital rooms, doctor visits, house calls and the average costs for obstetrical cases, appendectomies, tonsillectomies and tooth fillings in twenty American cities.
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States. Average cost of a hospital stay. Prices for dental services including fillings, tooth extraction and teeth cleaning. Cost for an eye examination and eyeglasses. Hospitalization, cost per day in , , , and For the cost per day to stay in a hospital, see column labeled "current dollars," as that refers to the dollar cost at the time.
Compares the cost of a hospital stay from to See page 31 for a chart showing how much of this cost was paid by insurance. Cost to treat selected medical conditions, and Table shows average cost to receive maternity care, get treated for appendicitis, breast cancer, heart attack myocardial infarction , pneumonia, and duodenal ulcer. Also shows the average cost for a child to be treated for a forearm fracture or an ear infection otitis media.
Also shows average length of hospital stay for relevant conditions. Also shows the price of an at-home hair permanent kit. Data shown for five major U. Price of a funeral - See average cost of a funeral director's services including use of facility and casket in this congressional hearing, Antitrust aspects of the funeral industry. Casket costs are also listed by state. Cost to mail a letter or postcard, present Source: the Historian of the U.
Postal Service. Choose a make, year, and body type. Select a car then enter any zip code. Click "Get Base Values" to see the original suggested retail price. Used car prices, The N. Price of gasoline, "Nominal price" was the price paid by the consumer at the time of the transaction. This table shows the nominal price of leaded regular gasoline from Energy Information Administration.
Price of gasoline and car mechanic services in cities - Average retail price for a gallon of gasoline, a quart of motor oil, a tire, car battery, chassis lubrication, motor tune-up, front end alignment and brakes relined. Gasoline prices paid by farmers, reported by state - Farmers paid on average 31 or 32 cents per gallon for gasoline in Image source. Gasoline, fuel and oil prices paid by farmers, Source: Congressional hearing titled Farm Cost-Price Squeeze , Automotive repair labor costs, Shows the median hourly charge that customers were billed for car repair at shops in Cleveland.
Also shows a table giving prices for parts and labor for various makes of cars. Source : congressional hearing titled Automotive Repair Industry. Railroad passenger ticket prices, ss See fare tables from a variety of railway companies scanned and available on the "Welcome to the Ticket Office" page on the StreamlinerSchedules.
Air travel - Average fare expressed in cents per mile, Historical airfare rates were published in Forecast of scheduled domestic air passenger traffic for the eleven trunkline carriers, , published by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Hotel rates - U. Cost to travel to Europe, ca. Cost to travel by ship to Europe Cost of tickets by the boat and steamship line Airfares from New York to cities in Europe Cost of hotel rooms, restaurant meals, entertainment, etc. Average college tuition and fees, Average costs for for full-time undergraduate students in institutions of higher education, by region, and by type and control of institution universities, liberal arts colleges, teacher colleges, theological schools, technical schools and professional schools.
Average room and board in dormitories is shown in the following page in the source. Tuition, fees, room and board at each institution - Gives rates for each and every institution of higher education in a long list. Includes junior colleges, universities, teacher colleges, theological colleges, technical colleges and professional schools. Chapter 2 covers tuition and fees and spans page in this source.
Chapter 3 covers room and board; it spans pages in the source. Find similar data for the rest of the s in other editions of this source. Median college tuition, fees, room and board, Shows data for junior colleges, universities, liberal arts colleges, teacher colleges, theological colleges, technical colleges and professional schools.
In they could earn between 2s 6d to 6s per week. Of course, the prisoners' accommodation was included! Medicine was one of the better-paid careers in the s. The top careers in the s were in advertising, marketing or public relations.
Managers in some industries did even better. They needed to be experienced designers and estimators, as well being able to work with clients on large projects.
Source www. Cookies are small data files used to remember information about a user. For example, we use cookies to remember your cookie choices. Home Social history How much did people earn in the s? How much did people earn in the s? You could start work at age 15 in the s People earned a lot less in the s than they do today. Manual occupations Manual work was a big part of the economy in the s.
Farm work was not well paid in the s Farm work was poorly paid for men as well as women. School leavers The school-leaving age in the s was fifteen. In , the median home value in the U. And it has only kept rising. Televisions were expensive in the s.
In many years there are no Court decisions which reflect the latest level of the basic wage, unless a new award is made using the latest basic wage. There were however Court decisions in , , , and which changed the basic wage separately to automatic indexation. In the s, along with the Beatles and the Stones, there came inflation and wage growth. Doctors were now at the top of the heap, receiving three to four times the average salary.
The book Black and white data book on the Australian motor industry contains a listing of approximate average male weekly wage earnings from , pg Further breakdown of pensions. Occupations In the Victorian Year Book VYB , earnings are listed for specific occupations according to industry factory or agriculture.
South Australia The online pamphlet An account of the colony of South Australia includes a detailed listing of the prices of food and the average wage rates for the the years to Jobs of the past bootcatcher: someone employed at an inn to pull off and clean patrons' boots pinder: originally the person in a manor responsible for impounding stray animals duffer: a pedlar who sold women's clothes tarboy: a boy applying tar to cuts on sheep being shorn Source: Job jamboree: some early occupations and their meanings.
Decades of change The book Decades of change includes detailed figures on wages, groceries and real estate as well as many other areas, organized by the decades of the twentieth century Newspapers Sometimes wages and labour costing figures were listed in the newspapers, like the below report from The Argus June 23, , p2.
Calculators Inflation calculator : Converts the price of goods from one year to another, calculating changes in the cost of purchasing. Catalogue searches You can browse the broader subjects headings by entering the below terms into the Library catalogue , and then use the links on the left hand side of the page to narrow your search. Wages-- Victoria. For example: Wages flour Industry Wages Hotels. Historical records of Victoria The Historical records of Victoria series consists of eight volumes.
Victorian historical awards Awards set out the minimum wages and conditions to which an employee is entitled in particular industries and occupations.
Listed below are the Victorian historical awards held at the State Library of Victoria.
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