TABLE 673.-Per cent of foreign-born male employees 18 years of specified amount per week, by race and length of residence in t (STUDY OF EMPLOYEES.)

[By years in the United States is meant years since first arrival in the United only races with 200 or more males reporting.]

*This table shows wages or earnings for the period indicated, but no account time or lost time from shutdowns or other caus. In the various tables in t earnings allowance is made for time lost during the year.

As a general rule, the South Italians reporting sl earning ability as the length of residence in th increases. By way of illustration, only 8.6 per ce have been in the United States under 5 years e per week, as compared with 21.4 per cent of those w the United States from five to nine years, and those who have been in the United States ten years may be even better illustrated by reference to the the proportions earning $12.50, $15, and $17.50, or This race report no proportions with a residence years, earning these specified amounts, as compare and 3.6 per cent, respectively, of those who have be States from five to nine years. It will also be seen t have been in the United States ten years or over, th those earning $12.50 and $15 or over, are in excess of shown by those with a residence of from five to nir

L EARNINGS OF MALE HEADS OF FAMILIES STUDIED.

e submitted below shows, by general nativity and race of husbands at work in the households studied, together with ge annual earnings:

674.-Husbands at work, by general nativity and race of individual.

receding table shows that all the native-born and 97.2 per he foreign-born husbands are at work. The average annual of the husbands who are native-born whites are $521, as ed with $368 of the total foreign-born and $486 of the nativero. Among the foreign-born husbands, the highest average earnings are shown by the Scotch, and the lowest by the alians. The annual earnings of both the English and Scotch xcess of the earnings of the native-born whites.

The following table exhibits, by general nativ range in annual earnings of male heads of families:

TABLE 675.-Earnings per year of male heads of families, by ge (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[This table includes only male heads of selected families. For selection

a Not computed, owing to small number involved.

As already seen, the yearly earnings of heads of far information was secured in this locality average $399 tions of male heads of families earning under $200, u under $600 each year, respectively, are larger for the fo for the native-born negro of native father. On the negro native-born of native father has larger proporti uals earning under $800 and under $1,000 per yea than have the foreign-born.

RNINGS OF MALES 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER IN THE HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED.

wing table shows yearly earnings, by general nativity ndividual, of all males 18 years of age or over in the house-d who were working for wages:

Yearly earnings (approximate) of males 18 years of age or over, by general nativity and race of individual.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

y and dual.

native

Number

working

for wages Average

and earnings. Under Under Under Under Under Under Under Under $200. $400. $600. $1,000. $200. $400. $600. $1,000.

reporting

amount.

nnual earnings of the adult males in this locality for whom ion was secured, as shown by the above table, average $331. ars that the average yearly earnings are highest in the case whites native-born of native father; they are higher in the the negroes native-born of native father than in that of the generation of immigrants, and lowest in the case of the born. Of the foreign-born, the Scotch, English, and French, order mentioned, have the highest average yearly earnings. proportions of individuals earning under $200 and under $400 ar, respectively, are largest for the foreign-born, and larger native-born of foreign father than for the negroes native-born

largest for the foreign-born, but larger for the n native father than for the second generation of i

ANNUAL FAMILY INCOME.

The table next submitted shows, by general na head of family, the per cent of families studied ha income of each specified amount.

TABLE 677.-Per cent of families having a total yearly income d by general nativity and race of head of famil

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[This table includes only races with 20 or more families reporting. The total Seven families are included which report income as "n

The average family income for the 476 families stu ity is $492, the foreign-born reporting $481, as com for the native-born. Of these 476 families, 27.9 p total income of under $300, 63.2 under $500, 85.7 $750, 93.7 under $1,000, and only 2.3 per cent have a $1,500 or over. The negroes native-born of native fat ing only slightly larger proportions than are shown in families earning under $750, under $1,000, and und a considerably smaller proportion earning under $50 show only 4 per cent earning under $300, in contra cent of the foreign-born.

Among the foreign-born, the average family income $1,032, exceeds that of any other race. No Scotch, a cent of the French families, as compared with 26.4 Slovak and 52.2 per cent of the South Italian families, under $300. As regards those families which have an $500, the South Italians report by far the largest prop per cent, while the French and Slovaks, of about equ comparison, show a very much larger proportion hav under this amount than do the Scotch, who report cent. As regards those having incomes under $750 and respectively, the South Italians in each instance sh proportion and the Scotch the smallest, the percents re