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Old 11-06-2013, 03:33 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Puxlut View Post

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1911 census.
Scratch Walter... his other brother was Albert. His dad worked 60 hours a week and made $300 per week. Karl was German Maria was Austrian

Edit: This may or may not be him
Edit, Edit... not him.
I imagine the $300 is annual salary, as $300 a week would be about $350K a year in today's dollars.

Some of those wage figures really put things into perspective. It's a little over a 20:1 ratio from today's dollars to 1910 dollars, so most of those people were only earning the equivalent of $6000-8000 a year while working 60+ hours a week.
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