Excerpt from A Comparative Study of Railway Wages and the Cost of Living in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Principal Countries of Continental Europe Information is not obtainable upon which can be based a com prehensive statement of railway wages being paid at this time in the different countries. Therefore it is necessary to make compari sons for the latest year for which comparable data are available. The average daily compensation of railway employees of all classes for the year 1910 was in the United States, in the United Kingdom, excluding supplementary allowances negligibly affecting the average, it was in prussia-hesse 81 cents, and in Austria 89 cents. The lowest paid railway employee in the United States, the ordinary trackman, receives a greater compensation than many of the railway employees of France, even those of higher grades and with responsible duties. The compensation of railway employees is from two to three times as high in the United States as in Italy. A recent report of the Board of Trade on railway wages shows that the average weekly pay of enginemen in the United Kingdom in 1907 was of firemen, In the same year enginemen on American railways received an average weekly compensation of counting six days to the week, and firemen Recent returns make it clear that in 1912 enginemen and firemen in the United States are compensated at rates of pay for specific runs that are two, three and four times as high as the corresponding rates on representative English railways. The annual compensation of enginemen in the United States, as reported by two representa tive railway companies, now ranges from in switching service to over in passenger service, and of firemen from $700 in switching service to over in passenger service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.