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EMPLOYEE EARNINGS IN RETAIL TRADE IN OCTOBER 1956 D ISTR IB U TIO N OF N O N SU P ER V ISO R Y EM P LO Y EES BY A V ER A G E EA R N IN G S DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES B u lle tin No. 1220-7 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR James P. Mitchell, Secretary BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS Ewan Clague, Commissioner Bulletins in the Retail Trade Series, October 1956 The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ study of Employee Earnings in Retail Trade, October 1956, covered all major retail trade industry groups, except eating and drinking places. The final results of this study are published in a series of separate bulletins for each of these major groups. As indicated, some of these bulletins include separate tabulations for specific lines of business. The final bulletin in this series relates to retail trade as a group and provides summary information for the various lines of retail activity. Bull. No. Title 1220-1 BUILDING MATERIALS AND FARM EQUIPMENT DEALERS 1220-2 GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORES (Separate data for Department Stores and for Variety Stores 1220-3 FOOD STORES (Separate Data for Grocery Stores) 1220-4 AUTOMOTIVE DEALERS AND GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS (Separate data for Franchised Motor Vehicle Dealers, and for Gasoline Service Stations) 1220-5 APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES STORES (Separate data for Men’ s and Boys’ Clothing Stores, Women’ s Ready-to-Wear Stores, and Shoe Stores) 1220-6 FURNITURE, HOME FURNISHINGS, AND APPLIANCE STORES (Separate data for Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores and for Household Appliance and Radio Stores) 1220-7 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES 1220 RETAIL TRADE (A summary bulletin) Availability of Bulletins For information relating to the availability and price of the above named bulletins, write to the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington 25, D. C ., or any of the regional offices listed on the inside back cover. NOTE- An initial report entitled EMPLOYEE EARNINGS IN RETAIL TRADE, OCTOBER 1956 (BLS Report 119), containing detailed tabulations for the retail trade industry as a whole was issued in May 1957 and may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C ., or from the Bureau’ s regional offices at 30 cents a copy. EMPLOYEE EARNINGS IN RETAIL TRADE IN OCTOBER 1956 DISTRIB U TIO N OF N O N S U P ER V ISO R Y EM PLO YEES B Y A V E R A G E EA R N IN G S DRUG STORES AND P R O P R IE T A R Y STORES B u lle tin No. 1220-7 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR James P. Mitchell, Secretary BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS Ewan Clague, Commissioner July 1957 F or sale by the Superintendent o f Documents, U. S. Government P rinting Office, W ashington 26, D. C. P rice 15 cents Contents Page Earnings of men and women _______ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Earnings by region ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Earnings by com m unity size — ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Earnings by number o f stores operated __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ W eekly earnings ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 2 2 2 3 Chart: Straight-tim e average hourly earnings of non su p ervisory em ployees, United States and region s, by m etropolitan and nonm etropolitan area cou nties, O ctober 1956_____________________________________________________ _____________________________________ iv T ables: Distribution o f nonsupervisory em ployees by straight-tim e average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, O ctober 1956 1-A : Northeast: By s e x __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ——-------------------1-B : South: By s e x ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1-C : North Central: By s e x ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 - D: West: By sex ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 6 7 8 2: United States: By sex and m etropolitan and nonm etropolitan area counties ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 - A: Northeast: By sex and m etropolitan and nonm etropolitan area counties —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 -B : South: By sex and m etropolitan and nonm etropolitan area counties ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 -C : North Central: By sex and m etropolitan and nonm etropolitan area counties _____________________________________________________ 2 -D : West: By sex and m etropolitan and nonm etropolitan area counties _____________________________________________________________ — 9 10 11 12 13 3: 14 United States and regions: By size o f comm unity and number o f stores operated ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number and straight-tim e average weekly earnings o f nonsupervisory em ployees by hours w orked in week, O ctober 1956 4: United States and regions ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Appendix: Scope and method 17 of s u r v e y __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18 Industry c la s s ific a t io n _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sampling and colle ctio n procedure _________________________________________________________________ :---------------------------------------------------------------Estim ating p r o c e d u r e --------------------------------------------------------------P roblem s o f nonresponse ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ C riteria fo r publication of estim ates _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Definition of term s ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18 18 18 19 19 19 iii S T R A IG H T - T IM E A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N I N G S O F N O N S U P E R V I S O R Y E M P L O Y E E S D ru g S to r e s a n d P r o p r ie t a r y S to re s UNITED STATES AND REGIONS BY METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREA COUNTIES October 1956 NORTHEAST UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS iv Employee Earnings in Retail Trade in October 1956 Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores* Introduction an hour; 161, 000, or 49 p ercen t, under $ 1; and 227, 000, or 69,percent, under $ 1 .2 5 . About 22,000 em p loyees, or 7 percen t o f the total, earned $ 2 .5 0 o r m ore an hour. The largest concentrations in any 5 -cen t wage interval w ere as follow s; $ 1 and under $ 1. 05, 12 percent; and 75 cents and under 80 cents, 8 percen t. The U. S. Department o f Labor*s Bureau of L abor Statistics conducted a com prehensive study of the straight-tim e earnings of non su p erv isory em ployees in retail trade (except eating and drinking p la ce s) fo r an O ctober 1956 p a y roll p e riod . This bulletin provid es inform ation on the hourly and w eekly earnings of em ployees in drug stores and p rop rieta ry s to re s . Other publications relating to the broad study of retail trade are listed on the inside front co v e r . Substantial variation was noted in the hours w orked by individ ual em p loyees in the m id -O ctob er survey week. An estim ated 113,000 em p loyees (34 percen t of the total) w orked le s s than 35 hours a w eek. A s a group, these em ployees averaged 99 cents an hour. About 80, 000 em ployees w orked from 35 to 40 hours a week and averaged $ 1 .3 1 . An average of $ 1 .1 8 was re co rd e d fo r the 52, 000 em ployees who w orked fro m 41 to 47 h ours. F orty -eig h t or m ore hours w ere w orked by 86, 000 em ployees who averaged $ 1 .2 5 . The drug stores and p rop rieta ry stores group includes stores p rim a rily engaged in selling any com bination o f such m erchandise as p re scrip tio n drugs, co s m e tic s , to ile tr ie s , to b a cco , and novelty m e r chandise. These s to re s may operate a lunch a n d /o r soda fountain in conjunction with their other reta il a ctiv itie s. A com plete definition of this retail trade industry group is provided in the appendix. Earnings o f Men and Women A s shown in the accom panying tables, the survey provides inform ation on the number o f em p loyees at various wage le v e ls between 50 cents and $3 an hour. In recogn ition of the wide variation that ex ists in weekly w ork schedules, distributions of em ployees by wage in tervals are provided by hours w orked in the p a y roll w eek. In addi tion to data fo r the United States and four broad region s, tabulations are provided by comm unity size and by number of stores operated by com pany. Summary inform ation on weekly earnings is a lso shown. W omen accounted fo r 56 percent (186, 000) of the em p loyees in the drug store and prop rietary store group, and averaged 95 cents an hour. A pproxim ately 29 percent earned le s s than 75 cents an hour; 61 percent under $1; and 83 percent under $ 1 .2 5 . C om paratively few wom en (le ss than 1 percen t) earned $ 2 .5 0 or m ore an h our. Thirteen percen t o f the wom en had hourly earnings of $ 1 and under $ 1 .0 5 . The earnings of the 145, 000 m en in n onsupervisory job s w ere at a con sid erably higher lev el than the average fo r w om en. Men as a group averaged $ 1 .5 4 an hour. Hourly earnings of le s s than 75 cents w ere re co rd e d fo r 16 percent of the men; 32 percent earned le s s than $ 1; and 50 percen t earned le s s than $ 1 .2 5 . F ourteen percent of the m en earned $ 2 .5 0 or m ore an hour. L ocated in a ll sections of the country, in sm all com m unities as w ell as in la rg e m etropolitan a re a s, the drug stores group is fu r ther ch a ra cterized by a number of fa cto rs that a ffect the le v e l and distribution o f w ages. F o r exam ple, drug store en te rp rise s d iffer m aterially in te rm s of em ploym ent; substantial prop ortion s of both men and wom en are em ployed; and the w ork fo r c e is com p osed of em p loyees ranging fro m highly trained ph arm acists to sa les and d e liv e ry p erson nel whose functions are la rg ely routine and who require little training. These and other variable fa cto rs are re fle cte d in the wide d isp ersio n o f individual earnings which range fro m le s s than 50 cents an hour to m ore than $ 3 . A la rg e r prop ortion o f men than of wom en w orked on a p arttim e b a sis. These d ifferen ces and the fact that both m en and wom en em p loyees working fro m 35 to 40 hours had higher hourly earnings than em p loyees on either shorter or longer w ork schedules are illu s trated in the tabulation below : Men W omen Nationwide, drug stores and p rop rieta ry stores em ployed approxim ately 331, 000 nonsupervisory em p loyees in O ctober 1956. A s a group, these em ployees averaged $ 1 .2 0 an hour, excluding o v e r tim e pay but including com m ission s or bonuses (table l). An estim ated 7 8,000 em p loyees, or 24 percent of the total, earned le s s than 75 cents H ours w orked in week P ercent of total * P rep ared in the D ivision of W ages and Industrial R elations. NOTE: See appendix, page 19, fo r definition o f te rm s used in this bulletin. 1 to 34 __________ 35 to 4 0 _________ 41 to 47 _______ 48 or m ore _____ 39 19 12 30 (i) Straighttime average hourly earnings $ 1. 10 1.76 1.66 1.61 P ercen t of total Straighttim e average hourly earnings 30 28 19 22 $ 0 .8 9 1.09 .94 .85 2 E arnings by Region F o r purposes o f this study, the 48 States and the D istrict of C olum bia w ere grouped into 4 broad reg ion s. Total n onsupervisory em ploym ent in the drug store and p rop rieta ry store group was d is tributed among these region s as follow s: Northeast - 9 States— 75, 000; South - 16 States and the D istrict o f Colum bia— 104, 000; North C entral - 12 States— 107, 000; and W est - 11 States— 46,000. A verage hourly earnings and the p roportion s of em ployees earning le s s than any given amount, particu larly at the low er pay le v e ls, varied w idely among the region s as indicated below : R egion United States Northeast ________________ South North C e n t r a l____________ W e s t ______________________ Straighttim e average hourly earnings with 5, 000 o r m ore and under 5, 000 population in the case of nonm et ropolitan area counties (tables 2 and 3). Nationwide, seven-tenths of the em ploym ent was concentrated in m etropolitan a rea s— m ostly in central c itie s. In the nonm etropolitan counties, em ploym ent in c o m munities o f 5, 000 o r m ore population was nearly 3 tim es that in sm a ller com m unities. The relationship between com m unity size and em ployee hourly earnings fo r the drug store and prop rietary store group can be noted fro m the a vera ges and the prop ortion s o f em ployees earning le s s than $ 1 as shown in the follow ing tabulation: P ercen t with hourly earnings o f le s s than— Size of comm unity $ 0 .7 5 $1 $ 1 .2 5 $ 1.20 24 49 69 1.35 .98 1. 19 1. 58 16 41 20 4 39 67 49 21 61 82 72 43 P rop ortion s o f m en earning le s s than $ 1 an hour ranged fro m 10 percent in the W est to 50 percen t in the South. S im ilarly, the p r o portions o f wom en earning le s s than $ 1 ranged fro m 29 percent in the W est to 79 percen t in the South. Although the South accounted fo r only 31 percent of the total nonsupervisory em ploym ent in drug stores and p rop rieta ry sto re s, it accounted fo r 43 percen t o f the em p loyees earning le s s than $ 1 and 55 percen t earning le s s than 75 cents an hour. By con trast, the West accounted fo r 14 percen t o f the total em ploym ent in the drug store and p rop rieta ry store group, 6 percen t of those earning le s s than $ 1, and 2 percen t o f those earning le s s than 75 cents an hour. Straighttim e average hourly earnings P ercen t earning le s s than $ 1 an hour M etropolitan a r e a s _________________ Central c itie s ___________ Com m unities other than central c itie s __________________ $ 1 .2 7 1.23 43 45 1. 38 36 Nonm etropolitan a r e a s _____________ Com m unities o f 5, 000 or m ore _______________________ Com m unities of le s s than 5, 000 _____________________ 1. 05 63 1. 06 62 1. 02 66 Although a gen erally sim ilar relationship was noted within each region , the d iffe re n ces shown in nationwide com p arison s re fle ct, in part, regional d ifferen ces in general pay le v e ls and in distributions o f em ploym ent by comm unity size. Thus, em ploym ent in m etropolitan a reas in the com paratively high-w age Northeast region exceed ed that in nonm etropolitan a rea s in the ratio of 6 to 1; in the South, how ever, the ratio was 3 to 2. Earnings by Number o f Stores Operated E arnings by Community Size Stores and au xiliary units w ere a lso cla ss ifie d accord in g to location in m etropolitan a rea s or in counties not included in such a rea s; in addition, separation was provided between cen tral citie s and other than central citie s in m etropolitan a rea s and between com m unities Nationwide, 60 percen t of the nonsupervisory em ploym ent in O ctober 1956 was accounted fo r by com panies operating single stores (table 3). E m p loyers operating 11 or m ore stores accounted for 23 p ercen t; 2 or 3 sto res, 11 percen t; and 4 - to 1 0 -store firm s a c counted fo r 6 p ercen t. This pattern a lso held, with only m inor v a ria tions, within each o f the four broad region s. 3 Nationwide, em ployees of single stores averaged $ 1 .2 0 c o m pared with $ 1. 12 fo r em ployees o f com panies operating 4 to 10 stores and $ 1 .2 1 fo r em p loyees o f chains o f 11 or m ore sto re s. Highest average earnings o f $ 1 .2 3 an hour w ere reco rd e d fo r em p loyees of com panies operating 2 or 3 sto re s. The prop ortion s of em ployees earning le s s than $ 1 w ere as follow s: Single sto re s, 49 percen t; 2 or 3 stores, 49 percen t; 4 to 10 sto re s, 53 percent; and 11 or m ore stores, 46 percen t. P a rt-tim e em p loyees accounted fo r a la rg e r prop ortion of e m ploym ent in single stores than in the com panies operating m ultiple-unit stores; 37 percent of the em ployees in single stores w orked le s s than 35 hours a week— com pared with 30 percent in the 2- o r 3 - store group, 20 percent in the 4 - to 1 0 -store group, and 32 percent in the 11 or m ore store group. W eekly E arnings Nationwide, weekly earnings varied accordin g to hours w orked during the p a y roll period studied as follow s: 1 to 34 hours, $ 19. 19; 35 to 40 h ours, $ 51. 30; 41 to 47 hours, $ 51.55; and 48 or m ore hours, $ 6 2 .8 5 (table 4). Tabulations for the North Central, South, and West indicate a p ro g re ssiv e in crease in weekly earnings fo r each succeeding hours group; how ever, this relationship does not hold fo r the Northeast, where em ployees working 35 to 40 hours averaged $57. 39 a week c o m pared with $ 5 5 .2 3 fo r em ployees working 41 to 47 hours a week. 4 Table 1: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - UNITED STATES: RY SEX (Number of employees in hundreds) All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Men Hours worked in week Total 1 to 34 41 to 47 35 to 40 Women Hours worked in week 48 or more Total 1 to 34 35 to *0 41 to 47 Hours worked in week 48 or more Total 1 to 34 35 to *0 41 to 47 48 or more ,95 29 16 11 38 38 16 8 2 13 56 15 8 10i 25 50 55 60 65 70 and and and and and under under under under under 5 5 ______________________________________________ 6 0 ____________________________________________ 6 5 _______________________________ ___________ 7 0 ____________________________________________ 75 _ ________________________________ ____ _____ 133 71 205 132 142 70 22 78 58 46 11 11 35 18 17 15 18 25 25 25 37 21 67 30 54 51 17 64 31 34 35 9 36 20 19 1 5 2 5 3 5 4 3 1 10 4 18 7 8 82 52 140 100 108 35 12 40 39 27 9 11 30 16 11 10 14 21 22 23 26 16 46 23 46 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 ____________________________________________ 8 5 _________________ ______ ____________________ 9 0 _______________________________ ___________ 95 _ _______________________________________ __ 100 ___________________ ____ ___________ __ 250 188 166 169 54 120 77 57 71 12 45 29 44 31 15 31 34 31 30 14 53 49 33 36 12 86 45 39 50 14 61 26 19 32 3 9 2 8 3 3 5 4 6 5 3 14 11 8 9 4 163 143 126 119 40 59 50 39 40 9 36 27 35 28 11 28 28 25 24 11 38 38 26 28 8 Under 5 0 ______________________________________________________ 100 105 110 115 120 and and and and and under under under under under 1 0 5 _____ _______________ ________ ________ 110 __ ______________________________________ 1 1 5 ------- __ ------- ----------------------- -----------1 2 0 _______________________________________ __ 1 2 5 ____________________________________________ 405 67 94 54 48 199 13 25 15 14 106 28 27 15 14 44 13 24 15 11 57 13 18 9 8 164 15 35 20 17 94 4 14 9 5 27 5 7 3 3 16 3 4 3 4 29 2 9 5 5 242 52 59 35 30 104 9 10 7 7 80 22 20 11 11 28 10 19 13 8 28 10 10 4 4 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 1 3 0 ____________________________________________ 135 __________ __ ------------ ----------------------1 4 0 __________________________________________ 1 4 5 _________________________ _______________ 1 5 0 ____________________________ ___________ 118 53 51 38 33 41 11 11 10 5 42 17 19 13 12 15 11 10 7 6 20 13 11 9 10 56 24 25 16 20 27 5 8 4 2 12 4 7 2 5 7 4 3 2 4 12 11 7 8 8 63 29 25 21 14 13 5 3 4 2 31 15 12 11 8 9 7 9 3 2 8 2 4 1 2 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 1 6 0 ____________________________ ___________ 1 7 0 ______________________________________ __ 1 8 0 ____________________________________________ 190 __ ----------------------------------------------------------200 _____________________ _____ ___________ 97 61 77 64 26 28 14 15 5 2 31 21 29 29 6 14 6 10 11 5 26 22 22 19 14 57 38 44 42 22 15 8 10 2 1 10 9 9 11 3 8 4 7 8 4 19 17 20 19 13 41 25 31 23 5 7 6 5 1 1 20 12 20 18 2 6 3 4 3 2 7 3 1 210 220 230 240 250 __ -------------------------------------------- ------- — _________________________ _______________ ___________ ________ ____ ___________ __________________ ___________ _____ __ _____ ________ ________ __ __ ________ 76 32 43 28 19 24 3 9 3 1 13 14 12 11 6 10 5 7 3 1 29 11 16 11 10 67 25 40 25 18 21 2 8 3 1 10 9 11 8 5 9 4 6 3 1 27 9 16 10 9 8 7 3 3 2 3 2 5 1 ___________ __ _______________ _____ __ ___________ _______________ __ __ ________________________________ ________ _______________________________________ „ ____ __________________ ________ _____ 58 27 24 23 8 21 1 2 6 1 7 6 2 18 17 8 9 3 52 26 23 23 8 18 1 2 4 1 7 5 2 16 17 8 9 3 2 1 14 6 7 6 2 6 1 14 6 7 6 2 ____ 80 21 25 12 22 76 19 24 12 20 5 2 Number of employees (in hundreds) _____________________ 3309 1134 797 521 855 1447 564 265 176 434 1859 556 525 346 410 Average hourly earnings (dollars) __________ — ------------ 1 • 20 .9 9 1 .3 1 1 .1 8 1 .2 5 1 .5 4 1 .1 0 1 .7 6 * 1 .6 6 1 .6 1 • 95 .8 9 1 .0 9 •94 .8 5 200 210 220 230 240 2 50 260 270 280 290 and and and and and and and and and and under under under under under under under under under under 260 270 280 290 300 300 and o v e r ___________________________ __ ________ NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 5 Table 1 -A : Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - NORTHEAST: RY SEX Men All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 50 _____________________________________________________ Hours worked in week Total 1 to 34 48 or more 41 to 47 35 to 40 Women Hours worked in week Total 1 to 34 41 to 47 35 to *0 8 5 2 1 5 3 50 55 60 65 70 and and and and and under under under under under 5 5 _________________ _____ _______________ __ 6 0 ____________________________________________ 6 5 _________________ ___________ ___________ 7 0 ______________________________________ ______ 7 5 __________________________________ __________ 25 10 36 22 16 19 6 17 16 9 1 1 9 3 2 2 3 6 2 3 3 1 4 1 2 15 1 11 5 5 14 1 8 5 3 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 ____ ______________________________________ 8 5 _______ ___________________________________ 9 0 ---------------- ------------------------ -----------------------95 - ______________________________________ __ 100 ___________________ ____ _______________ 57 31 31 40 12 40 14 18 25 3 8 7 8 7 4 4 5 2 5 4 5 5 2 3 ] 32 13 11 19 3 26 8 9 15 114 9 26 10 8 66 1 9 4 2 28 6 7 3 3 13 1 7 2 2 7 1 2 1 1 52 2 14 6 3 35 1 6 4 1 8 1 3 1 11 5 8 5 5 4 2 3 1 2 4 4 4 1 2 17 8 12 2 7 8 1 2 4 2 5 1 4 2 1 1 18 14 11 16 10 7 3 2 6 7 3 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 4 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 4 1 under under under under under 1 3 0 ---------------------------- --------------------------------135 -------------------- -------------------------------------1 4 0 _____ ___________________________________ 1 4 5 _________________________ _______________ 150 __ ----------------------------------------------------------- 31 12 19 8 10 12 1 3 2 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 1 6 0 ____________________________ ___________ 1 7 0 ______________________________________ __ 1 8 0 __________________________________________ 190 __ ______________________________________ 200 _____________________ ____ ___________ 27 21 14 18 10 9 7 2 1 11 10 5 6 2 3 2 5 2 4 4 5 6 6 200 210 220 230 240 and and and and and under under under under under 210 220 230 240 250 __ ------------------------------------------- — .......... _________________________ _______________ _____________________ ____ ___________ ___________ ____ ___________ ________ _______________ ___________ ___________ 21 15 17 16 7 9 2 2 2 1 3 9 8 9 3 4 1 4 1 1 4 3 4 4 2 19 12 16 14 7 8 2 2 2 1 3 6 7 7 3 250 2 60 2 70 280 290 and and and and and under under under under under 260 270 280 290 300 _____ ____ __ _____ ___ ___ _____ __ ____________________________ __ __ __________________ ___________ ___ __ ____________________________ _____ __ _______________ ________ ________ ____ 12 9 6 7 1 4 5 4 4 3 1 3 4 1 4 11 8 6 7 1 4 5 4 4 3 11 1 5 1 4 10 1 4 747 313 220 100 112 423 183 105 1 .3 5 .9 9 1 .4 8 1 .2 6 1 .6 1 1 .6 0 1 .0 5 1 .8 2 Average hourly earnings (dollars) __________ __ _____ __ NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees. 2 1 10 8 25 16 11 2 2 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 25 18 19 20 10 14 6 9 10 3 4 7 6 7 3 3 3 2 3 4 4 2 2 1 5 4 31 2 1 1 20 5 4 2 2 8 1 5 2 2 3 2 62 7 12 4 4 4 4 4 1 2 14 5 7 6 2 4 7 4 4 4 2 2 1 3 9 7 3 2 1 2 4 5 3 2 2 1 2 5 2 3 4 4 6 6 4 1 3 1 1 4 3 4 4 2 2 3 1 2 1 1 3 3 4 1 4 1 4 1 88 320 1.81 1 .0 2 1 and and and and and Number of employees (in hundreds) ___ _______________ 48 or more 1 1 9 3 125 130 135 140 145 __ _____ __ ____ 41 to 47 2 105 __ __ ________ _____ ________ __________ 110 __ ____ _______________________________ 1 1 5 ------- ------------ -------------------------------------1 2 0 ____________________________________ _____ 1 2 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ____ 35 to 40 5 4 9 11 6 under under under under under 300 and o v e r ____________________ 1 to 34 3 and and and and and 1 Total 1 100 105 110 115 120 1 Hours worked in week 48 or more 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 46■ 1.60 1 126 115 54 23 •901 1.14 .98 .89 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 6 Table 1 -B : Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - SOUTH: BY SEX (Number of employees in hundreds) Men All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Total 41 to 47 35 to 40 1 to 34 Women Hours worked in week Hours worked in week 46 or more Total 41 to 47 35 to *0 1 to 34 Hours worked in week 48 or more Total 1 to 34 35 to 40 41 to 47 48 or more — — 75 19 14 10 32 30 10 7 2 12 45 10 7 9 20 50 55 60 65 70 and and and and and under under under under under 5 5 ----------------------------------------------------- -----------6 0 _______ ___________________________________ 6 5 ------------------------------------------------ ------- ------7 0 ____________________________________________ 75 _ __________________________________________ 81 45 100 59 68 33 10 24 16 11 7 8 19 9 7 11 11 12 13 14 30 15 45 20 35 24 11 34 16 16 12 5 12 8 6 1 4 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 9 4 16 6 8 57 33 66 43 52 21 5 11 9 5 6 8 15 8 6 9 9 11 12 14 21 11 28 14 27 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under unde r under under 8 0 ______________________________________________ 8 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------9 0 _______________________________ ________ _____ 95 _ ----------------------------------------------------------- — 100 ----------------------------- __ — ------------ — — 87 70 58 36 15 31 19 13 8 3 17 9 18 6 4 15 16 13 8 4 23 26 14 13 4 30 18 16 14 7 18 9 3 6 2 3 2 6 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 9 5 5 5 1 57 52 42 22 9 13 10 11 2 1 15 8 12 5 2 15 14 10 6 3 14 21 9 9 3 9 2 1 1 4 1 1 2 16 1 4 1 2 51 14 13 7 4 13 1 19 5 5 2 2 8 4 4 2 2 10 4 3 1 1 4 5 2 1 4 8 4 1 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 6 7 6 7 4 4 2 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 11 2 4 3 4 3 2 1 5 4 2 2 1 4 3 1 Under 50 _____________________________________________ 100 105 110 115 120 and and and and and under under under under under 1 0 5 ------- ----------------------- ------------ — ------1 1 0 ------------------ -------------------------------------------1 1 5 ________________________________ ________ 1 2 0 --------------------------------------------------- -----------1 2 5 -------------------------------------- ----------------------- 97 18 19 13 9 32 1 1 4 1 28 7 6 4 2 12 5 5 3 2 26 5 7 2 3 47 4 6 6 5 19 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 1 3 0 __________________________________________ 1 3 5 ------------------ -------------------------------------------1 4 0 __________________________________________ 1 4 5 -------------------------------------- ----------------------1 5 0 ___________________________________________ 17 11 5 5 8 6 1 4 1 2 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 6 6 3 1 5 9 7 4 3 6 4 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 1 6 0 ____________________________ ___________ 1 7 0 ______________________________________ — 1 8 0 ------- --------------------------------------- --------------190 ____________________________________________ 200 _____________________ — — — ------- — 14 12 14 10 6 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 3 1 1 1 7 8 6 7 4 10 10 11 9 6 2 2 2 200 210 220 230 240 and and and and and under under under under under 210 220 230 240 250 __ -------------------------------------------- ------- — _________________________ — -----------------___________ ________ ____ ___________ ___________ ____ ___________ — — — __ __ ------------ ----------------------- ------------ 21 5 8 5 6 4 2 2 4 1 12 3 4 4 5 19 4 8 4 5 4 ___________ ------- ----- ---- — — — ____________________________________________ ------- --------------------------------------- -----------___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 15 4 3 4 2 8 6 4 2 2 1 12 4 3 4 2 6 13 4 6 11 3 1038 262 196 175 402 435 142 58 41 192 604 120 137 136 205 *98 • 88 •97 •90 1*05 1 .2 5 •96 1*23 1 .2 5 1 • 33 •80 • 78 • 86 • 80 •77 2 50 2 60 270 280 290 and and and and and under under under under under 260 2 70 280 290 300 300 and o v e r _______ __ _______________ __ ------- Number of employees (in hundreds) — — — __ ---------- ------- Average hourly earnings (dollars) --------------------------------------- . NOTE: 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees. 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. Table 1-C : Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - NORTH CENTRAL: BY SEX (Number of employees in hundreds) All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 50 -------------------- Men Total ------------------------------------------------- __ 1 to 34 35 to 40 41 to 47 Women Hours worked in week Hours worked in week Total u or more 1 to 34 41 to 47 35 to *0 11 5 6 3 3 50 55 60 65 70 and and and and and under under under under under 5 5 _____________________ _______________ „ „ 6 0 ______________________________________________ 6 5 _________________ ___________ ___________ 7 0 --------------------------- -------------------------------------75 _ ______________________________________ __ 27 14 67 40 56 18 6 36 16 25 3 2 7 6 8 2 2 7 10 8 4 5 18 8 16 12 3 18 10 13 9 3 15 7 10 75 B0 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 ------ ----------------------- ------------------ -----------8 5 _______ _______________ ________ ________ 9 0 ---------------- ---------------------------- — -----------95 _ ------------ ------- --------------------------------- __ 100 ___________________ ____ _______________ 91 67 64 67 22 42 37 21 31 6 16 10 16 13 5 10 11 13 14 6 23 10 15 10 5 19 11 10 12 3 139 32 31 24 20 75 11 9 6 6 33 10 9 4 6 16 6 7 9 5 16 5 7 5 3 Hours worked in week 48 or more 1 to 34 Total 41 to 47 35 to 40 1 8 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 15 11 48 30 43 9 3 20 9 15 2 2 6 5 5 13 8 6 8 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 2 2 1 71 56 54 56 18 29 28 15 23 5 48 7 11 7 7 31 3 4 2 3 5 1 2 1 2 6 2 1 1 2 6 3 3 1 91 25 21 18 13 43 8 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 5 2 19 14 9 7 4 3 3 1 1 48 or more 5 2! 6 0 7 3 4 16 7 16 14 10 15 12 5 8 10> 11 13 4 19 8 13 8 4 28 8 7 3 5 10> 4 5 8 3 10 5 4 2 2 10• 1 1 1 2; 2! 5 4 31 3\ 1 6> 2! 31 1 1 2► 1 1 2! 1 5 1 1 1 100 105 110 115 120 and and and and and under under tinder under under 1 0 5 ___________________________________________ 110 __ ------- __ ----------------------------- ----------— 115 ___ __ ____ __ ___________ __ ____ 1 2 0 ------- ------------ --------------------------------------1 2 5 ----------------------- ------------ ----------------------- 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 1 3 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------1 3 5 ------- ------- — ------- — ----------------------1 4 0 ___________ ___________ _______________ 1 4 5 ------- ------- ------------ __ _______________ 150 „ ------------ ------------ ------- — ____ __ 39 22 16 16 9 15 6 4 3 3 13 7 6 3 2 7 5 4 4 2 4 2 2 6 2 20 7 7 8 6 11 3 4 2 2 3 1 1 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 1 6 0 ___________________________________________ 1 7 0 ______________________________________ __ 1 8 0 _______________________________ ________ 190 __ ------------------------------------------- __ ------200 ________________ __ __ __ ________ __ 34 13 18 11 6 9 4 2 1 1 8 3 4 3 1 4 2 5 14 5 7 4 2 20 10 12 9 4 6 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 9 4 7 4 2 15 4 5 3 2 2 1 200 210 220 230 240 and and and and and under under under under under 210 220 230 240 250 __ _________________________ __ _____ __ ________ __ __ ________ _______________ ___________ __ __ __ _____ __ ________ ___________ ____ __ ________ __ __ __ __ „ __ — ------- __ __ __ ________ 23 8 12 4 3 9 1 3 3 1 3 1 3 3 1 10 3 4 2 2 20 6 11 4 3 7 1 2 3 1 9 3 4 2 2 3 2 1 2 2 2 1 3 250 260 270 280 290 and and and and and under under under under under 260 270 280 290 300 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ ___ _____ „ ___________ „ __ ________ __ „ __ __ ________ __ ___________ ________ __ _______________ __ __ _____ __ __ ------- ------------ ------- __ ________ _____ 20 8 9 7 2 5 3 18 8 8 7 2 3 1 1 7 6 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 5 3 1 2 1 1 8 6 2 2 1 5 1 4 1 5 4 1 1 1. 3 4 15 2 31 4 0 2 1 __ ____ __ ____ 15 2 Number of employees (in hundreds) __ ________ _______ 1067 419 216 190 248 399 176 47 1*19 .9 5 1 .1 8 1 .2 7 1 .2 8 1 .6 0 1 .0 5 1 .7 2 300 and o v e r ___________________________ Average hourly earnings (dollars) ____ __ __ __ „ __ NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees. 5 5 64 1 .7 9 » 1 5 1 1 1 1 108 670> 235' 125 137 1 .7 6 .9 5 * .8 9 1 1 .0 4 1 .0 1 .8 7 167 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. Table 1-D: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - WEST: RY SEX (Number of employees in hundreds) Men All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Total Under 5 0 _________________________________________________ __ 1 to 34 48 or more 41 to 47 35 to 40 Total 1 to 34 under under under under under 5 5 _________________ __ --------------------------------6 0 ____________________________________________ 6 5 ______________________________________________ 7 0 ____________________________________________ 7 5 _________________________________________ — 2 2 11 2 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 _____________________ _____________________ 8 5 ____________________________________________ 9 0 _______________________________ ___________ 9 5 _________________________________________ __ 100 ___________________ ____ _______________ 15 20 13 26 5 7 7 5 7 4 3 2 5 2 2 2 3 3 2 8 2 10 2 5 3 2 5 1 4 1 1 3 3 1 5 1 2 8 2 2 1 1 17 2 4 1 2 9 2 1 10 1 2 1 1 11 2 1 0 5 ------- ----------------------- ------------ -----------110 __ ______________________________________ 1 1 5 ________________________________ ________ 1 2 0 ______________________________________ __ 1 2 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 55 8 18 7 11 26 6 1 5 17 5 5 4 3 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 1 3 0 __________________________________________ 1 3 5 -------------------------------------- ----------------------1 4 0 ------- ---------------------------- ----------------------1 4 5 ------------ ----------------------- ----------------------150 __ ____________________________ ________ 31 8 11 9 6 8 3 4 4 2 14 4 3 3 3 3 1 2 1 1 6 1 2 1 1 10 2 2 3 1 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 1 6 0 ____________________________ ___________ 1 7 0 _________________________ ___________ __ 1 8 0 __________________________________________ 190 __ ____________________________ ________ 200 _____________________ — __ __ ------- ~ 22 15 31 25 4 7 1 8 3 1 10 7 17 18 1 4 3 2 2 1 1 5 4 2 2 9 4 10 8 2 200 210 220 230 240 and and and and and under under under under under 210 220 230 240 250 __ -------------------------------------------- — — — _________________________ _______________ __ ________ ________ _____ __ — _____ ___________ _____ _____ _____ __ __ „ _____ _____ __ ________ __ __ __ _____ 11 4 6 3 3 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 4 1 1 9 3 5 3 3 2 250 260 270 280 290 and and and and and under under under under under 260 270 280 290 300 ___________ __ ____ ___ ___ _____ __ ___________ _______________ __ __ ___ __ ________________________________ __ __ ____________________________________________ _____ ________ _____ ___________ _____ 11 6 6 5 3 4 1 1 6 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 11 6 6 5 3 41 14 12 7 8 457 140 165 56 1 • 58 1 .3 3 1 .6 7 1 .6 1 1 if'or definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees. 1 1 1 1 1 1 under under under under under NOTE: Total 1 to 34 35 to 40 41 to 47 48 or more 2 1 and and and and and Average hourly earnings (dollars) _________________________ 48 or more 1 1 100 105 110 115 120 __________ Hours worked in week 1 and and and and and Number of employees (in hundreds) ________ 41 to 47 35 to *0 50 55 60 65 70 300 and o v e r ______________________________________ — ------- Women Hours worked in week Hours worked in week 3 1 4 1 2 1 4 5 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 10 1 10 17 11 21 3 3 6 4 5 3 2 2 4 1 2 1 2 2 1 7 2 10 1 38 6 13 6 9 17 3 1 4 13 4 4 4 2 2 1 5 1 1 5 1 2 1 1 22 6 8 6 6 4 2 2 2 1 11 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 5 3 1 4 1 8 6 14 14 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 3 4 2 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 13 12 20 17 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 6 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 40 13 12 7 8 1 1 93 190 63 55 25 46 265 75 1 .6 0 2 .0 8 1 .7 1 2 .2 4 2 .1 1 2 .1 1 1 .2 4 1 .0 7 4 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 106 31 45 1 .3 9 1 .2 4 1 .0 9 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. Table 2: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - UNITED STATES: RY SEX AND METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREA COUNTIES (Number of employees in hundreds) Men All employees Metropolitan area counties Hours worked in week Total 1 35 or to 34 more Average hourly earnings (in cents) Women Nonrnetropolitan Metropolitan Nonirletropolitan Metropolitan Nonmetropolitan aresa counties area counties are a counties area counties area counties Hours Hours Hours Hours Hours worked worked worked worked worked in week in week in week__ in week in week Total Total Total Total 35 1 1 35 Total 1 35 35 1 1 35 or to or to or to or or to to 34 34 more more 34 34 more 34 more more 38 12 25 57 18 40 22 9 12 17 7 11 16 3 13 40 11 29 50 55 60 65 70 and and and and and under under tinder under under 5 5 ___ __ — — ------- — -----------60 _ ____ __ __ ____ ____ 65 _ ____ __ __ _______ __ 7 0 ____ __ __ ---- ------- __ ------75 _ „ __ __ __ __ __ __ _______ 65 39 110 78 82 33 13 42 37 31 30 26 69 42 49 67 31 93 54 61 35 10 35 22 13 32 22 58 30 46 30 6 37 24 25 21 4 20 18 15 8 2 18 7 8 20 12 27 7 9 14 6 17 3 3 7 6 10 4 6 35 33 73 54 57 12 9 22 19 16 22 24 51 35 41 47 19 66 47 52 21 4 18 19 10 25 16 48 26 40 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 __________ ------- -----------8 5 _______ __ r___ __ __ ______ ___ 9 0 _______ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ 95 _ — --------------------- — __ 100 ________ __ ------------ ------- 172 125 123 120 40 87 65 45 56 9 86 59 75 64 29 76 63 43 so le 32 13 11 15 2 45 51 32 34 13 69 29 31 40 10 43 21 14 25 1 21 7 14 13 8 17 16 8 11 4 12 6 2 5 2 6 10 6 4 2 103 96 92 80 30 39 44 31 31 8 65 52 61 51 21 59 47 35 39 12 20 7 9 10 39 41 26 30 11 57 16 20 74 4 17 6 5 52 9 14 8 10 35 19 17 9 5 1 2 1 7 2 1 172 36 44 28 25 76 9 9 6 7 95 27 34 23 17 70 16 15 7 5 29 8 6 127 13 26 14 16 40 16 13 6 5 11 9 7 7 6 49 18 71 11 16 23 5 7 3 2 26 12 14 9 13 7 6 4 5 4 3 4 6 3 5 4 54 26 22 19 11 13 5 3 4 2 42 19 19 15 10 8 3 4 3 2 2 13 10 14 10 7 3 2 1 10 8 13 9 7 34 23 28 21 5 6 6 4 1 1 28 17 23 20 5 6 2 3 1 8 3 7 3 2 8 6 2 3 2 3 3 6 1 3 1 1 1 7 5 5 4 2 4 3 2 1 1 15 4 2 2 391 850 613 165 443 •95 1 .03 •82 •77' .8 3 Under 5 0 ......................................................................... 100 105 110 115 120 and and and and and under under under under under 105 --------------------------------- --------110 „ __ __ „ ------- ----------------115 __ __ __ __ __ ------- ------120 __ ------- __ ------------ -------------1 2 5 ------- ------------ __ __ -------------- 299 49 70 42 41 150 13 21 12 12 147 36 48 31 27 105 16 24 12 6 48 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 130 __ ___ __ _________ __ __ — 135 ___ — __ __ ____________ 140 _ — __ __ — — „ __ ---145 __ __ __ __ __ ____________ 150 __ __ ------------ ---- ------------ 103 44 43 30 27 36 10 10 7 4 68 31 33 24 23 15 9 5 8 1 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 160 „ ------1 7 0 ---------------180 __ ------- — 190 __ __ __ 200 __ __ ------- 78 49 58 52 20 24 11 12 3 2 54 38 45 50 19 19 12 17 11 7 3 2 2 15 10 16 10 7 44 26 30 31 15 18 5 1 26 21 22 30 14 200 210 220 230 240 and and and and and under under under under under 210 ______ ___ — ~ — ~ ---220 --------- — — — — — — 230 _________________________________ 240 __ __________ ____ _______ 250 __ ---- ------------ ------- ---- 64 28 34 23 15 21 2 7 2 1 41 26 26 20 13 11 4 9 3 2 3 9 4 7 3 2 56 22 32 20 13 18 2 7 2 1 38 20 25 17 12 10 3 9 3 2 3 250 260 270 280 2 90 and and and and and under under under under under 260 __ ---- --------------------- ---270 __ __________ ___________ 280 ------- ---------------- ------- __ 290 ______ __ __ — ------- ------300 __ __ _ __ ------- ------------- 46 21 19 18 6 16 13 6 5 4 2 6 1 7 5 5 4 2 42 21 19 17 6 16 1 26 20 18 17 5 11 6 5 4 2 4 1 1 29 20 18 18 5 63 19 44 18 1 16 59 17 42 17 1 300 and over _ _ ___ „ __ ---- -------------- ------------------ -----------__ ------- — ------~ „ ------- __ ---__ ---------------- ---- --------- ------- __ 2 8 6 3 i i 1 <5 2 2 1 1 Number of employees (in hundreds) __ ------- ---- 2334 828 1488 963 284 672 1087 437 638 350 119 229 1247 Average hourly earnings (dollars) 1 .2 7 1 .0 4 1 .33 1.05 .8 5 1.0 8 1.58 1 .1 4 1.71 1.4 4 .9 7 1 .5 4 1 .02 ------------ ---- NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees 1 1 1 5 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 7 3 4 2 2 1 10 Table 2-A : Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - NORTHEAST: BY SEX AND METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREA COUNTIES (Number of employees in hundreds) All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 5 0 _________ 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under and under and under and under and under and under 100 105 110 115 120 and and and and and 55 ___ 6 0 __ 65 __ 7 0 __ 7 5 __ 80 ___ 8 5 __ 9 0 __ 9 5 __ 100 ... under under under under under Metropolitan area counties Hours Worked in week Total 1 35 to or more 34 7 5 2 i 18 14 5 7 5 2 10 2 1 8 4 13 8 3 3 14 3 4 48 18 27 32 9 34 14 10 8 10 12 6 8 26 20 12 16 16 20 3 1 0 5 _____________ 1 1 0 _____________ 1 1 5 __________- __ 1 2 0 _____________ 1 2 5 _____________ 97 8 23 9 7 58 1 9 4 12 1 18 3 14 8 1 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 1 3 0 __________________ ______ ___,___ _ 1 3 5 _______________________ —____ _ 1 4 0 _________________ ______________ 1 4 5 ______________ _______________ ___ 1 5 0 ___________________________ .____ 30 13 17 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 160 _______________________ ______ ___ 1 7 0 ______________ ___________________ 1 8 0 _______________________________ _ 1 9 0 ____________________ _ _________ _ 200 _______________________________ — 24 200 and under 210 and under 9 20 11 1 2 2 2 1 250 260 270 280 290 12 8 6 4 1 1 8 1 under under under under under 260 270 280 290 300 _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________ _ _______________________________ 300 and o v e r______ 6 7 Number of employees (in hundreds) 641 Average hourly earnings (dollars) - 1*39 3 1 2 2 9 5 5 9 13 3 6 5 4 9 29 5 1 2 10 3 3 17 8 1 45 30 2 1 6 15 1 7 4 1 2 2 8 1 2 9 8 1 3 3 1 3 2Z2l 13 5 3 17 3 8 10 2 3 3 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 11 16 13 9 14 13 14 1 1 12 1 1 12 15 13 4 8 2 2 2 1 1 8 1 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees. 36. .8 3 65 1 .2 0 1 2 8 14 8 3 6 4 1 4 1 3 3 4 2 2 6 11 11 1 8 2 3 5 2 2 5 3 3 8 19 13 17 15 7 11 6 3 7 8 8 4 9 8 2 52 28 24 1 1 10 4 4 3 7 4 4 2 13 5 7 4 2 9 4 6 4 2 6 6 6 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 8 2 1 7 2 2 1 2 2 4 6 3 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 10 10 1 3 4 7 17 15 10 13 2 1 1 1 1 5 7 8 3 1 1 1 3 1 6 5 2 5 3 3 1 10 1 2 4 2 3 5 2 3 3 6 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 7 io a 1 2 1 1 .1 2 1 2 6 8 2 6 8 3 4 9 10 4 362. 1 2 3 6 7 3 11 8 6 1.52 1 2 1 2 7 8 8 6 3 3 2 6 3 3 1 12 5 7 3 6 8 18 1 23 4 7 7 7 1 .0 1 2 1 6 16 9 15 16 15 5 9 10 9 3 11 1 6 16 10 2 20 5 12 1 6 6 15 13 16 9 1 5 3 Women Nonmetropolitan Metropolitan Nonmetropolitan area counties are a counties are a counties Hours tiours Hours worked Worked worked in week in week in week__ Total 35 Total 1 1 35 35 Total 1 or to or to or to 34 more 34 34 more more Metropolitan area counties Hours Worked in week Total 1 35 to or 34 3 1 5 3 39 7 14 9 7 2 1 0 _________________________________ 220 _________________________________ 220 and under 230 _______ ________________________ 230 and under 240 __________________________ _______ 240 and under 250 _______________________________ _ and and and and and Men Nonmetropolitan area counties Hours worked in week Total 1 35 or to 34 7 7 2 2 377 161 2 11 43 20 1.62 1.0 8 1 .7 9 1.43 •84 23 264 1 .6 3 1 .0 5 112 151 57 16 42 .9 1 1*10 •90 •61 •92 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. Table 2-B : Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - SOUTH: BY SEX AND METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREA COUNTIES (Number of employees in hundreds) Men All employees Metropolitan area counties Hours worked in week Total 1 35 or to 34 more Average hourly earnings (in cents) 20 49 14 36 16 5 11 14 5 10 10 23 19 38 26 25 46 21 6 12 6 9 3 17 3 6 2 15 9 4 6 26 3 25 15 39 16 31 34 26 31 19 28 27 16 7 8 11 6 20 1 1 2 1 42 34 11 11 7 9 5 2 2 1 9 4 4 4 4 4 2 Under 5 0 __________________________________________ 26 11 55 60 65 70 and and and and under under under under 60 _ ______ ~ __ ------- ------65 _ --------- — — __ ------------ — 7 0 _______ „ ---- __ __ -----------7 5 ------------------------------------------------------ 35 23 49 36 34 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 ------ ------------ ------- ------------ __ 8 5 ________________ ____ ______ ___ 9 0 _______ __ __ ---- „ -----------95 . — — — — — — — — ------100 ________ __ „ ------------ — „ 58 43 43 25 24 16 10 5 4 12 10 8 11 6 100 105 110 115 120 and and and and and under under under under under 105 ______ ______________________ 11 0 ........ .................. — „ -------------115 __ „ ------- __ ----------------120 __ __ __ __ ------- --------------------125 __ __ „ „ „ ------------ 63 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 130 ---- __ ------------ „ — — 135 ______ — ---- ------------------140 __ ------- ------- __ „ ------- ---145 — — — — -----------------------1 5 0 --------------------------------------------------- 13 5 4 4 4 4 150 and 160 and 170 and 180 and 190 and under under under under under 160 __ __ ---- -------------------------1 7 0 _________________________________ 180 __ ------------ — ------- — --------1 90 __ „ „ __ __ ------- — ---200 ................... __ --------------- -------- 8 6 8 6 2 1 7 5 2 6 6 2 under under under under under 3 ---- --------------------- — ---- ------------ — ----------------........ ..... ............................... ---- --------------------- ---------- __ __ __ ------- -------------- 11 2 2 1 1 5 300 and over _ 8 260 __ 270 280 290 300 1 15 4 5 4 4 ------------------- — — ---- — — ---220 and under 230 --------------230 and under 240 __ -------------------------240 and under 250 __ — ------------------and and and and and 7 — — ---— ~ — — -------------------------- ---- 200 and under 210 210 and under 220 250 260 270 280 2 90 12 , 12 11 ---------------- ------- — Number of employees (in hundreds) — ------- ---Average hourly earnings (dollars) --------------------- _ 3 21 51 23 34 9 4 21 24 14 2 2 2 2 10 25 14 9 4 12 11 8 2 4 9 4 4 4 3 11 23 32 4 4 4 4 15 1 7 2 6 6 2 2 6 1 2 6 1 2 4 6 6 6 4 1 1 4 4 7 4 3 4 4 3 1 1 2 1 5 13 4 4 6 11 1 4 1 2 3 6 5 5 5 6 5 1 1 1 14 3 5 3 3 1 2 1 2 1 10 2 2 1 1 5 3 5 6 1 5 5 604 154 440 437 100 334 1*02 .9 3 1.0 3 .9 4 .7 9 .9 5 3 3 8 17 6 6 6 7 8 2 2 4 9 4 6 12 31 5 8 8 1 2 1 7 3 1 6 5 3 2 1 5 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 5 3 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 262 87 1.24 1 .0 1 23 15 5 6 3 1 2 9 1 15 3 24 5 5 3 2 2 6 1 10 8 1 5 5 3 5 3 3 3 3 31 13 34 17 27 34 31 32 16 1 11 35 17 17 25 2 2 2 20 32 26 25 9 g 3 7 4 4 4 2 2 1 2 6 1 1 1 2 5 16 4 3 4 3 2 2 1 2 1 8 2 3 5 * 6 2 6 4 4 1 10 2 2 1 1 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees Women Metropolitan Nonmetropolitan Metropolitan NonrrLetropolitan Nonmetropolitan area counties area counties area counties are;a counties area counties Hours Hours Hours Hours Hours worked worked worked worked worked in week in week in week in week__ in week Total Total T Otell 35 Total 35 Total 1 35 1 35 1 1 1 35 or or to or to or to or to to 34 more 34 more 34 more 34 more 34 more 2 22 21 22 19 5 2 8 5 3 2 4 2 1 1 2 1 2 171 174 51 123 1 .30 1.25 .8 7 1.31 9 6 3 8 11 5 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 20 2 1 1 1 1 5 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 19 2 1 1 1 1 1 6 25 3 1 1 5 1 12 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 6 1o 11 30 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 26 l 3 4 5 4 4 1 1 1 2 2 4 4 3 26 7 1 1 1 22 21 11 6 9 1 2 2 1 2 342 67 269 263 49 2 11 .8 5 •83 .8 5 •73 a70 .73 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 12 Table 2-C : Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - NORTH CENTRAL: BY SEX AND METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREA COUNTIES (Number of employees in hundreds) Men Women Nonmetropolitan Metropolitan Nonmetropolitan Metropolitan Nonmetropolitan area counties area counties area counties area counties are a counties Hours Hours Hours Hours Hours worked worked worked worked worked in week in week in week in week in week l otai Total Total 1 35 1 35 1 35 Total 1 35 Total 1 35 to to or or to or to or or to 34 34 34 34 more more more more 34 more All employees Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 5 0 ______ 50 55 60 65 70 and and and and and 75 80 85 90 95 and under and under and under and under and under 100 105 110 115 120 under under under under under and and and and and 55 60 65 70 75 8 0 _______________________ 8 5 ___________ ___________ 9 0 _______________________ 9 5 _______________________ 100 _____________________ under under under under under 1 0 5 ____________________ 1 1 0 ____________________ 1 1 5 ____________________ 1 2 0 ____________________ 1 2 5 ____________________ Metropolitan area counties Hours worked in week Tula 1 35 or to 34 more 5 2 3 7 4 3 1 1 12 8 8 4 17 14 9 3 18 4 4 14 9 7 34 4 4 17 21 11 12 6 9 7 34 15 19 12 12 59 53 48 47 18 25 33 17 24 20 31 23 6 12 104 26 23 17 18 54 7 9 2 10 11 2 8 8 2 3 3 31 14 16 16 4 4 15 13 10 8 8 5 21 8 10 12 13 4 10 5 7 4 3 3 1 2 50 15 15 35 5 9 21 14 5 36 22 8 2 6 6 14 3 3 12 11 8 6 2 3 3 6 6 1 2 2 13 21 5 6 13 11 8 2 2 2 125 130 135 140 145 and and and and and under under under under under 1 3 0 ____________________ 1 3 5 ____________________ 1 4 0 ____________________ 1 4 5 ____________________ 1 5 0 -------------------------------- 34 19 14 150 160 170 180 190 and and and and and under under under under under 1 6 0 ____________________ 1 7 0 __________________ ... 1 8 0 _____________________ 1 9 0 ____________________ 200 _____________________ 200 210 220 230 240 and under and under and under and under and under 2 1 0 ____________________ 220 ____________________ 230 _____________________ 240 _____________________ 250 _____________________ 21 6 10 2 50 260 270 280 290 and and and and and 260 270 280 290 300 _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 18 300 and o v e r__________________________ 11 under under under under under 6 32 19 23 2 11 3 35 11 4 9 4 3 6 1 30 8 10 12 22 8 4 3 2 6 1 9 7 5 8 13 2 7 3 2 2 2 7 5 3 3 6 7 7 3 6 1 1 1 1 3 4 4 17 2 1 6 6 10 7 3 3 4 3 13 1 6 6 7 2 2 2 9 3 3 1 5 5 1 2 3 16 6 2 2 4 2 6 6 3 3 1 1 7 5 3 1 2 2 18 5 9 1 2 4 7 2 2 2 1 16 4 4 11 6 7 JS 5 5 5 3 12 2 5 7 3 2 2 2 2 1 10 6 3 2 5 9 3 2 2 1 8 1 2 2 1 6 1 1 2 4 11 10 5 3 1 3 1 1 1 3 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 3 5 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 2 2 1 2 2 12 7 4 4 13 5 12 12 6 24 12 9 4 7 4 15 9 16 17 25 17 5 20 10 2 68 20 32 36 8 4 2 17 13 11 4 4 3 12 12 10 2 1 17 13 3 3 3 3 2 8 6 12 3 1 1 14 4 5 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 30 18 27 5 24 18 2 11 21 8 25 13 15 19 4 12 13 3 3 7 10 12 24 5 4 5 11 12 13 4 5 4 4 7 2 2 14 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 8 5 3 12 3 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 9 4 4 2 1 3 46 43 39 37 15 11 6 6 6 2 5 4 23 5 3 Number of employees (in hundreds) . 771 305 468 294 108 181 307 140 169 87 37 Average hourly earnings (dollars) _ 1*24 1 .0 1 1.30 1 .05 .81 1 .1 2 1.61 1.0 8 1 .7 7 1.5 7 •91 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 48 2 2 1 1 464 1 .7 5 1.0 0 299 207 71 1.33 •95 1 .0 2 •83 •76 •85 165 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 13 Table 2-D: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - WEST: BY SEX AND METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREA COUNTIES (Number of employees in hundreds) All employees Metropolitan area counties Hours worked in week Total 1 35 or to 34 more Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 50 __ and and and and and under under under under under 5 5 ___________________________________ 6 0 __ ____ „ __ _______ ____ 65 _ ----------- __ __ __ ------------ --7 0 _______ „ ---- „ ___________ 75 _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ 75 80 85 90 95 and and and and and under under under under under 8 0 __________ _________________ ___ 8 5 _______ — ____ — — ______ __ 9 0 _______ __ __ ____ ____ __ „ 95 _ ------- __ __ „ __ __ ____ 100 _____ __ „ __ _______ __ ---- 100 and under 105 _____________________ ______ 105 and under 110 ..... ............... ....... „ __ ____ 110 and under 115 __ __ __ ____ __ ___________ 115 and under 1 2 0 ------- „ __ ------------ -------------120 and under 1 2 5 ........ ........ ..................................... 2 1 1 1 1 7 4 11 6 1 6 5 16 3 7 7 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 14 3 4 4 5 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 20 5 2 4 5 1 2 2 1 8 2 2 2 1 3 4 4 5 4 1 2 1 1 1 1 10 12 20 21 6 2 6 2 8 4 2 2 3 3 4 2 2 1 6 1 6 2 1 5 5 9 7 3 4 3 5 5 4 3 8 7 3 1 3 3 6 3 1 2 2 1 2 36 3 13 3 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 7 2 1 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 3 4 2 6 2 2 1 1 5 5 4 3 23 5 2 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 12 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 23 5 1 1 5 1 1 1 10 1 10 3 5 3 6 8 2 2 4 7 9 4 3 1 8 1 8 2 12 2 4 21 2 11 9 2 7 4 3 18 5 4 4 1 5 5 6 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 10 11 2 1 19 16 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 17 4 4 6» 1 1 6 11 4 3 2 2 1 2 2 1 3 15 3 4 4 4 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 8 10 3 2 1 1 1 16 15 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 6 2 2 1 1 3 4 4 3 1 4 9 4 9 4 7 2 2 35 1 1 2 1 318 96 218 132 40 92 141 49 87 46 11 1.6 8 1 .43 1*73 1.37 1* 11 1.4 2 2*13 1 .6 9 2 .2 4 1.95 1 .7 6 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees 2 1 1 4 3 250 260 270 280 2 90 Number of employees (in hundreds) __ ------- — 1 2 12 1 Average hourly earnings (dollars) ------------------------ 2 2 1 2 8 ------- — 3 4 8 200 and under 2 1 0 ______________ ____ „ 210 and under 220 -------------- „ __ __ „ ------220 and under 230 ___ — ~ --------__ __ „ 230 and under 240 __ -------------------------- __ --------240 and under 250 ---- ---------------------------------- ---- __ __ ---------------- 3 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 4 5 1 300 and over _ ____ 4 3 5 7 4 9 20 6 1 6 260 __ ---- --------------------- ------270 ------- -----------------------------------280 ____________________ ____ __ 2 90 ______ __ „ __ ____ ____ 300 -------------- __ ------- ------------- 8 10 10 9 1 1 8 6 under under under under under 3 2 1 16 3 16 13 27 23 A and and and and and 8 2 1 4 ---------------------- ---1 7 0 ------- ------- ------- __ -----------1 8 0 ___________ — ------- -----------190 __ __ ------- __ __ ------- __ ---200 ------- ----------- ------------------------ and under and under and under and under 190 and under 3 5 3 1 18 160 150 160 170 180 1 1 10 12 26 7 under under under under under 2 10 1 35 3 130 __ -------------------- __ __ — 1 3 5 --------------------------------------------------140 ______ „ __ „ __ __ __ 145 __ __ „ ----------------------150 __ — ------- — — __ — — and and and and and Women Metropolitan Nonnrletropolitan area counties are a counties Hour 8 Hours worked worked in week in week__ Total Total 1 1 35 35 to or or to 34 more 34 _________ __ ______ ___ __ ___ 50 55 60 65 70 125 130 135 140 145 Men Nonmetropolitan Metropolitan Nonmetropolitan area counties area counties area counties Hours Hours Hours worked worked worked in week in week in week Total Total Total 35 1 35 1 35 1 or to or or to to 34 34 34 more more 4 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 35 177 47 1 .98 1 .3 4 1 .2 0 131 86 1 .3 7 1.0 4 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 29 57_ .88 i 1 .0 8 14 Table 3: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - UNITED STATES.AND REGIONS: DY SIZE OF COMMUNITY AND NUMBER OF STORES OPERATED (Number of employees in hundreds) United States Nonmetropolitan area counties | Single store Two or three stores Four to ten stores Eleven or more stores Metropolitan area counties Communities other Communities of 5,000 Comm'unities of less! Central cities Hour 8 Hours Hours Hours or more population than 5, 000 population! than central cities worked worked worked worked Hours worked Hours worked Hours worked Hours worked ' in week in week in week in week Total Total in week Total in vreek in vreek .... in vreek Total 1 I 35 I 35 35 35 1 35 Total 1 1 35 Total 35 1 Total Total 1 35 to or to or to or to to or or to or to or to or 34 34 34 34 34 34 more more 34 more more more more more 34 more Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 50 „ __ __ _ — ____ _ 60 _ 70 _ „ __ — — 8 0 ________________________ 90 ________________________ 1 0 0 __ __ ____ . 50 60 70 80 and under and under and under and under 90 and under 100 and under 110 #110 and under 120 _ 120 and under 130 __ .. ~ 130 and under 140 .. 140 and under 150 __ __ „ __ __ 150 170 190 210 230 and under and under and under and under and under 170 190 210 230 250 250 and over „ __ ------ __ __ „ __ _ __ __ __ „ „ __ ______________________ ______________________ __ ---- — __ _ 32 9 23 6 4 2 51 12 38 6 4 83 146 33 54 85 74 42 48 93 114 21 12 9 18 75 91 103 84 44 31 28 40 16 15 45 6? 64 67 31 24 55 35 24 15 29 7 241 77 107 134 56 31 13 35 17 35 4 5 57 101 60 91 27 17 16 22 8 1 1 200 176 111 22 101 70 66 44 29 37 10 87 74 55 44 29 25 13 19 9 2 64 37 35 27 111 26 84 6? 43 56 71 47 25 34 36 23 109 37 4? 26 58 13 14 4 3 50 23 28 16 10 1 1 42 36 28 18 9 12 29 31 23 16 23 4 20 1 2 59 12 20 3 5 2 1 22 35 24 22 17 8 12 6 47 37 ? 5 13 14 9 19 18 13 9 6 20 4 5 2 3 1 8 1 9 3 6 2 2 31 12 4 64 25 38 16 3 13 14 1 13 139 205 243 194 123 66 23 38 44 38 7 13 14 17 15 25 29 12 112 73 123 131 117 76 3 5 21 10 20 10 9 13 17 18 17 7 4 311 67 145 17 38 44 16 22 23 5 4 12 2 2 54 32 11 6 164 52 63 43 27 9 7 1 1 5 6 8 6 92 60 59 48 33 18 19 14 2 18 9 68 32 9 10 12 6 2 1 11 8 11 6 114 28 2 26 1J 10 ' 25 27 18 16 101 83 77 48 21 16 18 28 23 10 24 9 7 11 4 2 8 7 17 1 1 1 8 1 8 8 7 4 3 5 7 4 3 37 49 14 13 17 2 32 43 13 13 16 6 6 31 4 27 10 9 7 53 36 27 27 21 22 9 3 8 154 41 157 1981 743 1239 366 107 254 197 37 156 754 239 519 1.08 j 1 .2 0 . 1 .0 1 1.25 1.23 .97 1.28 1 .1 2 •87 1.14 1 .2 1 •98 1.26 11 9 13 14 21 3 8 8 1087 670 261 403 724 202 518 1.28 1.38 1.03 1.48 1.06 •88 1.09 2 1 1 5 4 1 5 4 1 2 1 1 14 24 32 18 17 10 3 12 22 9 15 3 7 9 19 13 15 31 6 5 7 13 3 4 7 5 3 2 3 5 4 3 7 4 2 1 1 9 5 4 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 3 2 86 5 7 5 69 43 58? •80 22 6 8 2 2 2 1.04 249 68 16 38 47 64 46 39 17 1.23 1.0 2 15 35 31 36 92 55 38 34 27 Number of employees (in hundreds)_____ , 1664 Average hourly earnings (dollars)--------- 31 72 77 99 Northeast Under 50 __ 50 60 70 80 and under and under and under and under 90 and under 60 70 80 90 _ „ ________________________ _ „ „ __ __ _ ---- — — — — — 100 _ ____ __ __ __ 100 and under 110 110 and under 120 .. .. — .. — — — 120 and under 130 __ __ „ — __ — 130 and under 140 __ — __ 140 and under 150 ------ __ 150 and under 170 and under 190 and under 210 and tinder 230 and under 250 and over __ ---- — Number of employees (in hundreds)-----Average hourly earnings (dollars) _ 19 9 29 27 24 20 16 14 11 10 29 5 5 27 8 8 12 8 1 8 9 1 1 28 15 15 10 1 18 14 16 13 13 6 1 •5 2 17 13 11 6 1 1 10 15 21 4 16 21 2 19 20 _ 9 9 7 9 20 18 170____ — — — __ __ 190 „ ____ __ __ 210 .. __ — __ „ 230 ---__ ---250 __ __ .. 10 11 56 16 17 50 17 „ __ 13 23 30 3 5 3 15 10 11 3 e 3 § i e » | i s 11 12 10 § i © 7 9 11 3 o ’a ia ia *3 £ 9 10 .S .2 9 5 .2 1 22 40 38 35 7 8 21 20 17 15 93 19 27 53 20 8 4 39 14 16 16 14 4 3 3 8 1 2 2 6 11 1 1 5 1 9 5 4 8 6 2 1 1 1 1 12 11 3 5 7 7 1 9 5 5 7 8 2 6 9 1 3 5 9 8 6 3 5 9 6 6 3 2 1 29 3' 3 2 2 21 21 21 11 2 8 20 35 6 13 18 3 2 1 3 2 3 2 11 3 19 27 14 6 8 14 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 33 3 3 10 6 1 6 334 141 191 308 135 171 72 25 46 468 214 254 83 37 .44 37 12 22 155 , 1*43 1.06 1.55 1.34 •95 1.48 1.07 •78 1.15 1 .40 1.05 1.53 1 .2 1 •90 1.33 1.44 1 .0 1 1*53 1*25 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees J .1 ' 49» •81 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 5 104 1*35 15 Table 3: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight-time average houtly earning* and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - UNITED STATES AND REGIONS: RY SIZE OF COMMUNITY AND NUMBER OF STORES OPERATEDl - Continued (Number of employees in hundreds) South Metropolitan area counties Nonmetropolitan area counties Single store Two or three stores Four to ten stores Eleven or more stores Communities other Communities of 5,000 Communities of less Central cities Hours Hours Hours Hours than central cities or more population than 5,000 population worked worked worked worked Hours worked Hours worked Hours worked Hours worked in week in week in week in week Total -----j— in week in week Total in vreek ___ in week__ Total Total 35 1 35 1 35 1 I Total Total j— Total Total 35 35 1 35 to or to to or to or to to or or or to or to or 34 34 34 34 34 more more more 34 more mors 34 more more 34 Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 5 0 ------------------------------------------------ 25 6 19 45 10 34 48 16 31 14 2 12 60 70 80 90 52 71 81 62 31 15 17 29 18 6 37 55 51 44 25 55 54 47 36 12 18 11 8 3 3 38 43 39 33 10 86 109 103: 80 27 35 31 31 21 6 51 79 72 59 21 16 19 15 12 4 3 2 1 5 1 12 17 14 7 3 61 18 19 9 7 14 1 5 1 1 47 17 14 8 7 30 5 5 5 5 7 23 4 4 5 5 19 3 4 55 11 8 9 5 5 3 3 1 2 1 4 3 3 1 2 1 1 * 2 11 12 14 7 7 2 3 3 2 9 10 11 5 7 13 16 20 7 5 3 2 3 4 10 13 17 3 5 4 2 2 2 1 4 2 1 2 1 J | '3 *§ s 19 7 30 11 19 5 5 Number of employees (in hundreds)_____ 506 Average hourly earnings (dollars)_____ 1*02 and under and under and under and under 70 _ __ __ „ „ — — 8 0 __ 90 . 100 . ................. .. __ __ _ _ 100 110 120 130 140 and under and under and under and under and under 110 120 _ 130 140 „ 150 __ .. 150 170 190 210 230 and under and under and under and under and under 170 __ __ __ „ „ 190 „ __ __ __ 210 __ __ „ 230 — __ __ __ __ 250 __ „ __ __ 250 and over — __ __ ~ „ __ __ „ __ _ e 2 £ K 1a 2 A S -d a .£ ;s *3 2 s 1 I 74: 14 ! 121 9 5 a g i * a a -o i •J 2 ! 1 17 19 24 27 16 3 5 7 6 2 13 15 18 21 14 28 12 8 5 5 11 2 2 1 1 17 10 6 4 4 7 3 2 3 4 1 1 1 6 3 2 3 3 4 1 3 9 8 9 4 2 1 2 8 8 8 2 2 13 13 1 12 130 379 344 67 278 92 34 57 658 189 468 110 15 93 85 11 74 184 44 142 •91 1*03 •94 •76 •95 •94 •84 •96 •98 •88 •99 •94 •76 •96 •95 •76 •96 1*05 •96 1*06 5 2 3 17 49 81 82 51 8 23 30 40 23 8 26 51 42 28 3 7 13 19 14 3 5 10 9 6 2 3 10 4 6 2 2 2 3 2 4 6 5 3 3 26 38 59 31 3 17 17 24 12 1 9 21 36 19 106 31 40 23 15 53 11 16 9 5 53 21 24 15 10 25 12 2 3 1 4 2 1 7 3 1 3 1 3 47 29 18 17 10 24 9 5 6 23 19 13 12 8 30 14 19 14 4 8 2 9 3 22 13 11 11 4 11 12 7 5 3 2 2 1 1 10 6 4 3 2 39 7 32 11 8 a 1 1 'g % J North Central Under 50 __ 50 60 70 80 90 and under and under and under and under and under __ __ ------ 60 „ .. .. 7 0 ________________________ 80 _ __ __ „ __ __ .. __ .. 90 1 0 0 _______________________ 100 110 120 130 140 and under and under and under and under and under 110 120 __ .. 130--------- „ __ „ 14Q __ __ __ — „ „ 150 ____ __ 150 170 190 210 230 and under and under and under and under and under 170 — __ __ — 190 __ ____ „ 210 __ „ __ 230 250 __ __ „ __ __ __ __ „ __ __ __ 250 and over 8 11 9 5 3 4 7 2 2 1 5 2 3 11 5 6 7 13 23 4 15 18 19 12 32 63 89 57 48 18 27 8 11 28 41 27 19 14 36 45 28 28 12 6 8 8 5 33 14 5 5 3 18 2 1 1 1 15 12 7 4 6 2 2 5 5 3 3 1 2 3 10 11 1 8 8 1 8 1d (X ) h. c 1 a jo a -a 4 3 3 1 4 l 3 1 1 *3 J 10 Number of employees (in hundreds)------ 620 249 374 151 55 93 219 88 130 78 24 53 Average hourly earnings (dollars)--------- 1.21 1.01 1*26 1*36 •97 1*47 1*09 •85 1*16 .97 •64 1*03 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees 44 29 20 103 20 34 15 11 52 27 14 21 12 3 9 2 8 2 18 12 13 9 3 44 8 36 604 248 357 1.19 •95 4 14 4 2 i a 8 I g i 51 17 20 11 10 1*26 8 8 3 9 2 2 2 2 ■1a 1 | J 87 1*36 33 •92 55 1*47 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 43 316 125 194 1*13 .97 1.18 57 1*11 13 .85 !• 15 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 16 Table 3: Distribution of nonsupervisory employees by straight*time average hourly earnings and hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND PROPRIETARY STORES - UNITED STATES AND REGIONS: RY SIZE OF COMMUNITY AND NUMBER OF STORES OPERATEDl - Continued (Number of employees in hundreds) West Metropolitan area counties Nonmetropolitan area counties | Single store Two or three stores Four to ten stores Eleven or more stores Communities other Communities of 5,000 Commiunities of less 1 Central cities Hours Hours Hours Hours than central cities or more population than 5, 000 population worked worked worked worked Hours worked Hours worked Hours worked Hours worked in week in week in week in week Total Total in week in week in v/eek in week Total Total 1 35 1 1 I 35 35 35 35 1 Total Total Total 1 35 Total 35 1 35 to to or or to or or to to or to or to or to or 34 34 34 34 34 more more more more 34 more 34 more more 34 more Average hourly earnings (in cents) Under 50 50 60 70 80 90 and under and under and under and under and under __ — _ 1 _ — 60 _ — __ __ __ _ 7 0 ------------------------------------80 . __ __ .. 90 _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 0 0 __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 6 1A 12 1 3 6 4 1 3 8 8 2 2 6 1 1 2 1 1 3 5 8 7 4 2 2 100 and under 110 and under 120 and under 130 and under 140 and under 110 ____ 120 __ 130 140 __ __ __ __ 150 __ __ __ __ — 24 11 22 10 7 10 2 6 4 3 15 9 16 6 4 14 7 13 5 5 9 3 5 2 2 5 3 8 3 4 20 6 6 4 2 5 2 2 150 170 190 210 230 170 __ __ __ __ __ 190 __ __ __ __ __ — 21 0 ______________________ 230 ______________________ 250 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 18 33 7 3 3 5 7 2 1 13 27 5 2 3 12 17 5 3 2 2 10 15 5 3 6 5 3 4 2 1 1 and under and under and under and under and under 250 and over __ __ — _ __ - Number of employees (in hundreds)-------Average hourly earnings (dollars)_____ 32 8 23 8 23 11 3 16 4 4 4 1 j 3 a s 6. 5 4 2 3 2 g a £ o 2 a -a a • '38 7 *3 s 2 11 11 19 13 10 6 6 2 2 1 6 13 12 1 4 9 4 41 14 28 10 8 21 4 9 3 4 19 10 19 7 4 13 6 10 3 3 19 17 7 3 3 , 6 3 2 13 14 5 3 2 7 5 3 4 1 45 16 30 13 1 2 5 1 2 4 2 3 2 2 1 10 5 7 2 2 3 2 7 3 2 4 1 11 a JO 1 <0 £. g 9 t 3 s 2 cd § *3 s03 sS 1 2 12 1 1 4 1 8 5 3 5 5 4 1 1 2 2 1 4 2 3 4 3 9 33 4 2 2 1 5 8 28 4 2 2 12 2 10 21 79 204 62 143 114 37 76 89 22 64 251 92 160 86 22 62 99 1.62 1*41 1*66 1.79 1.47 1.86 1.48 1.34 1.50 1.54 !• 30 l.oO 1.56 1.33 1..6Q 1.73 NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. Absence of a column entry indicates less than 50 employees 15 2 5 5 1.48 . 1.77 Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. 17 Table 4: Number and straight-time average weekly earnings of nonsupervisory employees by hours worked in week, October 1956 DRUG STORES AND P R O P R IE T A R Y STO RES - U N ITED S T A T E S AND REGIONS (Number of employees in hundreds) Item All employees: 1 to 34 hours __ „ _______________________ 35 to 40 hours ________________________ __ — 41 to 47 hours__ __________ _______ _____ 48 or more hours -----------------------------------------Men: 1 to 34 hours ______ __ --------------------- -------35 to 40 hours_____ — ---------------- --------41 to 47 hours_____ „ ------- ------------ -------48 or more hours --------- ------- -------------- _ Women: 1 to 34 hours __ ----------- — ----------------------35 to 40 hours--- ------- ------- ------- --------------------------------- — — 41 to 47 hours-------48 or more hours ____ — — __ ------------ — United States Number Average of weekly employees earnings Northeast Number Average weekly of employees earnings South Number Average weekly of employees earnings North Central Number Average weekly of employees earnings West Number Average weekly of employees earnings 1134 797 521 855 $19.19 51.30 51.55 62. 85 313 220 100 112 $19. 10 57.39 55.23 81.54 262 196 175 402 $17.32 38.05 39.59 53.05 419 216 190 248 $17. 76 45. 94 55.40 64.40 140 165 56 93 $27.19 65.97 69.96 78. 98 564 265 176 434 20.28 69.28 73.06 82.88 183 105 46 88 19. 58 71.95 70.31 92.26 142 58 41 192 18. 77 48.31 55.03 68. 81 176 47 64 108 18. 15 66.86 79.23 91.53 63 55 25 46 31.76 88.41 91.77 104. 62 556 525 346 410 18.09 42. 32 41. 11 41.68 126 115 54 23 18.40 43.89 42. 81 43.28 120 137 136 205 15. 63 33.74 35.21 38.07 235 167 125 137 17.46 40.15 43. 59 42.72 75 106 31 45 23.42 54.77 53.86 53.77 828 1488 20.17 58.74 273 362 19.46 64. 96 154 440 19-02 47. 51 305 468 18.73 57.59 96 218 28.59 73.45 582 1087 20.26 56. 51 141 191 20.83 66. 50 130 379 18.85 47.31 249 374 18. 70 55. 52 62 143 28.38 69-90 261 403 19.96 64. 76 135 171 18.02 63.24 * * * * 55 93 18. 86 65.81 37 76 28.92 80. 19 284 672 16.40 49. 67 36 65 16.42 53.04 100 334 14. 63 44.42 108 181 15. 15 50.93 40 92 23. 96 63. 60 202 518 17.04 49. 67 25 46 15. 91 51.34 67 2 78 14. 39 44.24 88 130 16. 11 52.15 22 64 29.56 66.47 86 157 14.98 49. 67 * ★ 34 57 15.07 45.27 24 53 11.83 47. 92 * * * * 743 1239 19. 13 56.39 214 254 19. 69 66.66 189 468 16.87 45. 67 248 357 17. 75 56.99 92 160 26.23 70.11 107 254 20. 53 59. 32 37 44 18. 65 59.96 15 93 18.27 46. 70 33 55 18.37 68.79 22 62 28.00 69.06 37 156 17.43 52.01 12 22 18.29 67.39 11 74 15. 63 45. 53 13 43 18.01 50.30 * * 239 519 19.04 54.24 49 104 17. 13 54.94 44 142 19.47 47.80 125 194 17.58 50. 86 21 79 Community size: Metropolitan area counties: Total 1 to 34 hours ------- __ ------- — ------- __ — 35 or more hours ------- ----------------------------- Central cities 1 to 34 hours __ ----------- ---------35 or more hours __ — *------- ---------------- — Communities other than central cities 1 to 34 hours ______ _ ------- ------ — 35 or more hours -----------------------------------------Nonmetropolitan area counties: Total 1 to 34 hours — ------- — __ ------- --------- _ 35 or more hours __ ---- --------- -----------------Communities of 5,000 or more population 1 to 34 hours ------------------- ------------------------35 or more hours __ ------------ ----------------------Communities of less than 5,000 population 1 to 34 hours __ __ ---------- — 35 or more hours __ ------------------------------------- * * Number of stores operated by company: Single store: 1 to 34 hours __ __ ------- ------- — — -------------------------- — 35 or more hours Two or three stores: 1 to 34 hours __ ------- ---------------- ---- 35 or more hours __ __ ------- ----------------Four to ten stores: 1 to 34 hours ---- __ ------- ------- ----- 35 or more hours __ ----------- ------------------- Eleven or more stores: 1 to 34 hours ________________________________ 35 or more hours __ __ __ __ — ------------------ NOTE: For definitions of terms used in this table, see Appendix. * Insufficient data to warrant presentation. Because of rounding, sums of individual items do not necessarily equal totals. * * 30.47 73. 62 18 Appendix: |Scope and Method of Survey The O ctober 1956 survey o f em ployee earnings in a ll retail trade establishm ents (except eating and drinking p la ce s) conducted by the U. S. Department o f Labor*s Bureau of L abor Statistics was d e signed to provide separate inform ation fo r m a jo r reta il industry groups as w ell as fo r selected sp e cific lin es o f b u sin ess. Industry C la ssifica tion This bulletin relates to Drug Stores and P ro p rie ta ry Stores (group S91) as defined in the Standard Industrial C la ssifica tion Manual, 1949 edition, prepared by the Bureau o f the Budget, E xecutive O ffice o f the P resid en t. The drug store and p rop rieta ry store group includes retail establishm ents p rim a rily engaged in selling any com bination o f such lin es o f m erchandise as p re scrip tio n drugs, c o s m e tic s , to ile tr ie s, patent m ed icin es, tob a cco, novelty m erch an dise; such establishm ents may or may not operate a lunch a n d /o r soda fountain in conjunction with these retail a ctiv itie s. Sampling and C ollection P ro ced u re The retail trade survey was conducted on a sam ple b a s is . Data w ere obtained fr o m about 28, 000 stores and au xiliary units, selected in a ccord a n ce with line of bu sin ess, location , and em p loy ment s iz e . The sample design w as such as to perm it the publication o f data fo r each o f the m ajor kind o f business groups in retail trade (except eating and drinking p la ce s), but fo r only a few of the sp e cific lin es o f bu sin ess. The sample fo r the drug store and p rop rieta ry store group included 1,557 establishm ents. The sample used in the reta il trade selected fro m three differen t sou rces; study as a whole was The 110 chains in this cla ss w ere visited by Bureau r e p r e sentatives who explained the nature of the sample and the inform ation needed. Actual com pilation o f the data was done by the company in the bulk o f the c a s e s . About 8, 000 units w ere selected fro m these large com pan ies. 2. State Unemployment Com pensation Insurance listin g s. — The m ost cu rren tly available listings o f the State Unemployment Insurance (U .I. ) agen cies provided the b a sis fo r selectin g the la rgest number of sample units. A fter units belonging to the la rge chains r e fe rre d to above and establishm ents with few er than eight em p loyees (see item 3) w ere excluded, a sample of reporting units was selected in a system atic fashion from lists arranged by State and line of b u sin ess. The sam pling ratios varied by line of business and region and in creased with em ploym ent siz e — a ll units of 500 or m ore em p loyees w ere included. A ll units thus selected and having 1, 000 or m ore em ployees w ere visited by trained rep resen tatives o f the Bureau. About 1,800 units w ere included in this part of the sam ple. The bulk o f the r e spondents in this group w ere large urban department stores which w ere not con sid ered as chains in the sampling design, even where a number o f store units w ere under com m on ow nership. The rem ainder of the units selected fro m unemployment c o m pensation lists w ere included in a m ail can vass. A sample o f those not replying to two m ail requests was visited by Bureau represen tatives. A ltogeth er, about 13, 000 stores w ere co v e re d in this group. 3. Single-unit stores with few er than eight em p loyees. — Data fo r single-unit stores with few er than eight em p loyees w ere collected by the Bureau of the C ensus in its monthly survey of retail trade. Two monthly sam ples of such stores w ere used, totaling about 5,000 sto re s. Estim ating P roced u re 1. Large multiunit com p a n ies. — Current lists of stores and Data fo r each sampling unit co lle cte d , whether store, group auxiliary units (such as w arehouses and o ffic e s ) w ere provided by 110 o f sto re s, or individual em ployee, w ere weighted in accord an ce with chains with the la rgest em ploym ent (chains operating a sm all number the probability of selecting that unit. F o r instance, where 1 store o f la rg e urban stores w ere not included in this group). Units in each out o f 10 was selected fro m a chain, a ll data fro m that store w ere of these lists w ere stratified by loca tion and em ploym ent siz e . A con sid ered as represen tin g itself and 9 other sto re s. Thus, each seg system atic sample was then selected in a ccord a n ce with a set of sam ment was given its appropriate weight in the total, despite the inclusion pling ratios that varied by line of bu sin ess. o f a ll large sto re s and only a sm all p rop ortion of sm all stores. In a few c a s e s , com pany re c o r d s fo r individual em ployees w ere available in groupings broad er than store units; in these instances, a system atic sample o f em p loyees in a ll units was selected . A ll estim ated totals d erived fro m this weighting p ro ce s s w ere further adjusted to the em ploym ent lev els fo r O ctober 1956, as given in the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly em ploym ent s e rie s after 19 excluding eating and drinking p laces (6.7 m illio n ). The totals pub lish ed in this survey d iffer fro m those in the monthly s e r ie s since the latter include total instead of n onsupervisory em ploym ent. In o rd er to d erive these em ploym ent le v e ls fo r the detailed line o f b u sin e ssregion al groups presented in this rep ort, the totals in the B u r e a u s em ploym ent s e r ie s w ere broken down on the b a sis of the line o f b u si n e ss-re g io n a l em ploym ent totals found in the 1954 Census o f B usiness. F o r fluid m ilk pasteurizing and home d eliv ery (included in this study but not in the Census of B usiness), data fro m the 1954 Census of M anufactures w ere used. With very few exception s, the adjustment of the survey totals to the predesignated totals was confined to that part of the survey which was collecte d by m ail, or by p erson al visit to the nonrespondents th ereto. O bviously, lis ts available fro m the U .I. om itted units opened after the effective date o f the lis ts . Adjustment to predesignated totals was n ecessa ry to keep this s e cto r fro m being underrepresented in the total. In the case of the census sam ple, the large store sam ple, and the chain store sam ple, the best unbiased estim ates of totals w ere p resu m ed to be the weighted-up sample tota ls, there being no problem o f u nrepresented business births in these groups. P ro b le m s of N onresponse In that part o f the survey conducted by m ail canvass, estim ates fo r the nonrespondent population w ere made from the field followup of a sample o f the nonrespondents. In the estim ating proced u re this sam ple, th e re fo re , ca rrie d la rg e r weights than those re ce iv e d by m ail. The resp on se rate to the m ail questionnaire portion of the survey was about 53 p ercen t. About 30 percent o f the rem ainder w ere follow ed up by p erson al visit, the ratio varying by kind of bu sin ess. A nalysis o f the resu lts showed that within each kind of b u sin e ss-re g io n a l cla ss , the schedules obtained by personal visit averaged slightly le s s in earn ings than those replying by m ail. In the part of the survey made by m ail or person al visit to the nonrespondents thereto, the weight o f unusable schedules and of refu sals w as imputed to the whole o f this subuniverse. This was c a r ried out in the p r o c e s s of adjusting to the predeterm ined totals fo r the region al kind o f business groups. In that part o f the survey where co lle ctio n was done by the Bureau of the Census rep resen tatives, le s s than 5 percent o f the stores within scope of the survey failed to provide usable data. To c o m pensate fo r the lo s s of these schedules, their weight was assigned to usable schedules in the same kind of b u sin ess in the same o r r e lated a re a s. The p rob lem s o f response and unusable data w ere alm ost non existent in the large store and large chain sam ples. C rite ria fo r Publication o f E stim ates Since the survey was done on a sample b a sis, the resu lts of this survey d iffer fro m those that would have been obtained by a c o m plete canvass of all retail a ctiv ities. These d ifferen ces may be sub stantial in those instances w here the sample w as sm all; it has not been p o ssib le , th e re fo re, to present distributions and averages for a ll c a se s. « The follow ing general crite ria have been follow ed: 1. No distributions are shown fo r groupings of le s s than 50 sto re s; except department stores where the sample cov ered m ost of the large stores in the u niverse. 2. No data o f any kind are than 30 sto r e s. shown fo r situations with le ss 3. No published segm ent, rega rd less of number of stores involved, contains data from few er than 10 distinct em p loyers. Definition of T erm s E stablishm ent. — Data w ere reported fo r individual establishr ments rather than fo r com panies. A^n establishm ent is gen erally d e fined as a single physical location where business is conducted. Where two or m ore a ctiv ities w ere ca rrie d on at a single establishm ent, the entire establishm ent was cla ss ifie d on the b a sis of its m ajor activity (in term s of sa les); all data fo r such an establishm ent w ere included in that c la ssifica tio n . Thus, earnings data fo r cafeteria em ployees of department stores and lunch-counter em ployees of drug stores w ere in cluded, w hereas em p loyees of establishm ents cla ssified as prim arily eating p la ces w ere excluded. When two or m ore a ctivities w ere ca rried on at a single location by separate bu sin ess entities, each entity was treated as an establishm ent. Thus, a leased department in a department o r clothing store was treated as a separate establishm ent and was included in these tabulations on the b asis of its activities rather than as a part of the store within which it operated. Data fo r auxiliary units of retail establishm ents (such as sep arate w a reh ou ses, adm inistrative o ffic e s , e t c .) w ere included in this rep ort and c la ss ifie d on the b asis of the m a jor activity of the retail establishm ent se rv ice d . N onsu pervisory E m p lo y e e s. — The term ’’n onsupervisory e m p loy ees, " as used in this rep ort, includes all fu ll-tim e and p art-tim e em p loyees such as sa lesp erson s, shipping and receiv in g cle rk s, stock cle rk s, la b o r e r s , w arehousem en, caretak ers, o ffice c le r k s , d riv e rs , d r iv e r -sa le sm e n , installation and repair men, dem on strators, a ltera tion hands, elevator o p era tors, p o rte rs, jan itors, and watchm en, and other em p loyees whose s e rv ice s are clo s e ly associa ted with those of em ployees listed above, including working su p erv isors. Excluded are o ffic e r s and prin cip a l execu tives, such as bu yers, department heads, and m anagers whose w ork is above the working su pervisory le v e l. 20 Earnings Data. — F or pu rp oses o f this study, earnings data relate to straight-tim e earnings, excluding overtim e prem ium pay. C om m ission a n d /o r bonus earnings and sp ecia l sales bonuses (such as PM*s and Stims) paid quarterly o r oftener are included. B onuses paid le s s frequently than qu arterly are excluded. Individual average hourly earnings fo r em p loyees not paid by the hour w ere obtained by dividing total earnings rep orted by the num b e r of hours w orked during the corresp on d in g p eriod . Individual w eekly earnings w ere obtained b y multiplying the average hourly earnings, com puted as above, by the number of hours w orked during the selected week ending n earest O ctober 15, 1956. Group average hourly earnings published in this rep ort w ere obtained by dividing total individual weekly earnings by total individual w eekly hours w orked. Louisiana, M aryland, M ississip p i, North C arolina, Oklahoma, South C arolina, T enn essee, T exas, V irgin ia, and West V irginia; North C en tr a l— Illin ois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, M ichigan, M innesota, M issou ri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and W isconsin; West— A rizon a, C alifornia, C olorad o, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New M exico, O regon, Utah, Washington, and W yoming. M etropolitan A r e a s . — The term ’’m etropolitan a re a ” used in this rep ort r e fe r s to the Standard M etropolitan A rea s established under the sponsorship o f the Bureau o f the Budget. C entral cities of m e tro politan a rea s include the la rgest city (over 5b, 000 inhabitants by d ef inition of the te rm m etropolitan area) and all other cities in the area with a population of 25, 000 or m ore, p rovided each such city has a population amounting to at least on e-th ird the population of the largest city. A ll other com m unities in the m etropolitan area are included as ’’com m unities other than cen tral c i t i e s .” Group average weekly earnings w ere computed by dividing the sum o f the individual weekly earnings by the number o f em p loyees represen ted in the group total. Nonm etropolitan A r e a s . — A ll com m unities not in a m etrop oli tan area w ere c la ss ifie d as to their population accord in g to the 1950 census— those with 5, 000 or m ore and those with le s s than 5, 000. H our8 W orked in W eek. —Individual earnings data are tabulated in this rep ort accord in g to the number o f hours w orked by the em ployee during the selected week ending n earest O ctober 15, 1956. Weeks containing nonworking holidays or other irre g u la r w ork schedules w ere avoided. Number of Stores O perated. — Data w ere tabulated in a c c o r d ance with the number of retail stores rep orted as operated by the parent com pany, as follow s: (a) Single store; (b) 2 or 3 stores; (c) 4 to 10 sto re s; and (d) 11 o r m ore sto re s. Respondents w ere requested to indicate the number o f stores operated by the parent company rather than by a subsidiary com pany. Thus, if the parent company operated a total o f 12 stores through 2 subsidiary com panies of 6 each, data fo r a ll stores w ere grouped accord in g to the total of 12 (appearing in the group, 11 or m o re ) rather than the 6 (4 to 10) operated by the su bsid iary. R eg io n s. — The region s used in this study are: N ortheast— Connecticut, M aine, M assachusetts, New H am pshire, New J ersey , New Y ork, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Verm ont; South— Alabam a, A rkansas, D elaw are, D istrict o f C olum bia, F lo rid a , G eorgia, Kentucky, ☆ U . S. G O V E R N M E N T P R IN T IN G O F F I C E : 1957 O -435061