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Wages through history: Glass bottle makers’ wages – 1888
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. Glass bottle makers’ wages – 1888. Along with many other groups of industrial workers in this period, glass bottle makers had their own specialist trade union. From the late 1880s, the Labour Department of the Board of Trade began to collect information on trade unions which inevitably included details of pay rates and collective agreements covering their members. North of England Glass Bottle Makers. In addition...
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Wages through history: How much is that worth today?
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. How much is that worth today? The key problem with historic data on wages comes in understanding – even roughly – what the equivalent sum of money would be today. There is an excellent online calculator which allows you to input any figure, choose your year, and then update it either in line with rising prices or with rising wages to today’s values. You can try out this tool on the Measuring Worth.
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Wages through history: March 2011
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. London bricklayers’ wages – 1888. As skilled workers, bricklayers enjoyed a relatively good hourly rate of pay. But their take-home pay each week could vary depending on the time of year and the availability of work. In the summer, when daylight permitted longer working days, a bricklayer in full-time employment could expect substantially more hours work – and more pay. National Minimum Wage 1999 - 2011.
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Wages through history: House decorators’ and painters’ wages – 1888
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. House decorators’ and painters’ wages – 1888. House painters were a relatively low-paid group of skilled workers, and by the later 1880s their wages had fallen back from the levels reached in 1872, when joint committees of workmen and the Master Builders’ Association had agreed on a rate of 8 1/2d an hour. The surviving records of the Amalgamated Society of House Decorators and Painters. Working hours per week.
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Wages through history: Notes on currencies
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. The origins of the pound sterling go back to the Anglo-Saxon period and to the introduction of the silvery penny by King Offa of Mercia (757-796). The “pound” derived from the fact that 240 of these pennies weighed one pound (1lb). Between these two was the shilling – made up of 12 pennies. In turn, 20 shillings were pound. Farthing (one-quarter of a penny). Ha’penny (half a penny). Sixpenny bit (six pennies).
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Wages through history: Agricultural labourers' wages - 1850-1914
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. Agricultural labourers' wages - 1850-1914. How much did an agricultural labourer earn in the 19th century? Almost everyone looking into their family tree will come across at least one Victorian ag lab in their ancestry. But that need not be the end of the research line. Source: British Labour Statistics: Historical Abstract 1886-1968 (Department of Employment and Productivity, 1971). 26 April 2016 at 16:38. Simpl...
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Wages through history: Members of Parliament salaries - 1911 to 2011
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. Members of Parliament salaries - 1911 to 2011. Salaries were introduced for Members of Parliament in 1911. Before that date it was assumed that MPs would have other sources of income; this changed as the first working class MPs began to be elected. DATE PAY RATE STARTED. Source: Factsheet M5 Members’ Pay, Pensions and Allowances (House of Commons Information Office, May 2010). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Wages through history: National Minimum Wage 1999 - 2011
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. National Minimum Wage 1999 - 2011. The introduction of a National Minimum Wage backed by legal force in 1999 was one of the main domestic achievements of the Labour Governments of 1997-2010. Changes to the rate have been recommended each year by the Low Pay Commission. And accepted by government. National Minimum Wage rates 1999-2011. 16- and 17-year-olds' rate, £ph. 2 For workers aged between 18 and 21. Simple t...
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Wages through history: London bricklayers’ wages – 1888
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Find out how much people in different occupations were paid at different periods in history. London bricklayers’ wages – 1888. As skilled workers, bricklayers enjoyed a relatively good hourly rate of pay. But their take-home pay each week could vary depending on the time of year and the availability of work. In the summer, when daylight permitted longer working days, a bricklayer in full-time employment could expect substantially more hours work – and more pay. Operative Bricklayers wages in London - 1887.
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