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having income 25x that of the working class A live-in maid would have their accommodation, food and bills provided, which would be reflected in a lower wage. T
by onion2k 5y ago
having income 25x that of the working class
A live-in maid would have their accommodation, food and bills provided, which would be reflected in a lower wage. The UK average wage at the time was closer to £100 a year for a woman (£200 for a man).
The equivalent today would be like someone earning 7 * the UK minimum wage, which would be about £120,000 a year (US$160,000).
- notfbi 5y agoAccording to this[1] you'd have ordinary workers earning 22 shillings p/w (£57.2p/y) and highest skilled labourers (firemen) sometimes earning £300, but yes the average wage seemed to be around 150[2]. (I think most people googling the average 1920s wage are getting the Australian-Victoria data accidentally, which is a bit higher, but it's still in the same ballpark) I think the Christie's equivalent today to US household income would then be 67000*700/150 = 313,000 [1] https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1925/jul/30/average-weekly-wages https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1... [2]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nominal-wages-consumer-prices-and-real-wages-in-the-uk-since-1750?country=~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nominal-wages-consumer-pr...