ran across an old email posting:
Street sellers - 62 cents to $1 per week
Lady clerks in stores $3 to $8 per week - must dress well; small dry goods stores $3, working from 7 am until 9:30 pm, m-sat. Learners are not paid for one month, bring your own lunch and eat on the job, beginners start at $1 per week and work up
Unskilled beginners work at $1 to $3 per week, if you are being taught a skill you might work from 1-3 months with no pay at all before getting a permanent job
a job requiring literacy/skills/nice clothing might start at $3 per week and work up.
(info provided by Vicki Betts; email dated 5/11/1998)
book source unknown (not posted in email)
Probably Virginia Penny's The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work, published 1863 and available on Google Books.
Vicki Betts
Street sellers - 62 cents to $1 per week
Lady clerks in stores $3 to $8 per week - must dress well; small dry goods stores $3, working from 7 am until 9:30 pm, m-sat. Learners are not paid for one month, bring your own lunch and eat on the job, beginners start at $1 per week and work up
Unskilled beginners work at $1 to $3 per week, if you are being taught a skill you might work from 1-3 months with no pay at all before getting a permanent job
a job requiring literacy/skills/nice clothing might start at $3 per week and work up.
(info provided by Vicki Betts; email dated 5/11/1998)
book source unknown (not posted in email)
Probably Virginia Penny's The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work, published 1863 and available on Google Books.
Vicki Betts
