Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . mount of the additions from other sources both increasein the higher income-groups, shows that, for the particular fam-ilies that our visitors have reached, an income of above $700 or$800 is obtainable as a rule only by taking lodgers or byputting mother and children to work. It will be noticed fromTable 9 (page 63) that the average earnings of the father do notreach $900 in any of the income-groups until a total income of$ 1100 to $1200 is reached. A glance at the tables of occupations (pages 44-52) explains why 55 THE STANDAR
Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . mount of the additions from other sources both increasein the higher income-groups, shows that, for the particular fam-ilies that our visitors have reached, an income of above $700 or$800 is obtainable as a rule only by taking lodgers or byputting mother and children to work. It will be noticed fromTable 9 (page 63) that the average earnings of the father do notreach $900 in any of the income-groups until a total income of$ 1100 to $1200 is reached. A glance at the tables of occupations (pages 44-52) explains why 55 THE STANDARD OF LIVING the fathers earnings are so inadequate. The occupations pre-dominating (e. g., laborers, garment-workers, teamsters) arethose in which it is seldom possible for the father to earn morethan from $600 to $800 a year. If his family is to enjoy comfortsbeyond what this sum will provide, someone else must earn, or alodger or two be taken in, to help out in the rent. It will be f7 7* 6ot>-\ 7? 7* 7^0- cz 21 /? //aoA V /*> 7 /24. Diagram 5.—Percentage of income from each source in each income-group. found, further, as comparisons are made at specific points, thatthe families with composite income do not live as well, on thesame amount, as do the families supported entirely by the father. The principal resources for additions to what the father earnsare the earnings of wife and children, and the income from Table 11 (page 64) will be found the data regarding the numberof families dependent on these means of support, and in Tables 7-9 0 SOURCES OF INCOME (pages 61-63) the average amount and per cent, of average totalincome yielded by these sources. In 86 of the 318 families withincomes between §600 and $1100, or 27 per cent., there are wage-earners besides the father; 93 families, or 29 per cent., have incomes, the proportion of other wage-earners is least in the §600income-group ( per cent.), and greatest in the $800 group (41 percent.).
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