WAGES IN GERMANY.
TENDING UPWARD. Striking figures indicating how wages have risen in Germany since 1900 are contained in the returns of the workmen’s insurance system. The men’s own contributions towards the upkeep of tlic insurance system are divided into five classes, those earning the lowest wage being the first class and those earning the highest being the fifth class. In 1900, of 1000 contributions 189 were first class, 342 second, 228 third, 168 fourth, and only 73 fifth Eight years later the workmen whose wages put their contributions into the first and second classes fell .to 114 and 263, while those whose income had increased so as to entitle them to belong to the highest class liad risen to 201 or .lenrlv three times as many as belonged to the same class in 1900.
The insurance returns also disclose that the Average amount of wages in Germany has steadily risen since 1891. Based on their wages, the average weekly insurance contribution rose in round figures from IRI in IS9I, to 2d in 1901, and 3d in 1908.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2731, 9 February 1910, Page 2
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178WAGES IN GERMANY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2731, 9 February 1910, Page 2
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