Establishment number.

TABLE 1-Continued.

Current Graded Weekly Wages and Number of Hours Employed Per Day, 1898.

EACH HEADING REPRESENTS A SEPARATE ESTABLISHMENT)

OCCUPATIONS.

Sex.

Weekly wages

Number receiving.

Hours employed per day.

Establishment number.

TABLE 1-Continued.

Current Graded Weekly Wages and Number of Hours Employed Per Day, 1898.

(EACH HEADING REPRESENTS A SEPARATE ESTABLISHMENT.)

OCCUPATIONS.

Sex.

Weekly wages.

Number receiving.

Hours employed per day.

Establishment number.

TABLE 1-Concluded.

Current Graded Weekly Wages and Number of Hours Employed Per Day, 1898.

(EACH HEADING REPRESENTS A SEPARATE ESTABLISHMENT.)

OCCUPATIONS.

Sez.

Weekly wages.

Number receiving.

Hours employed per day.

THE COST OF LIVING IN NEW JERSEY.

RETAIL PRICES OF FIFTY-ONE ARTICLES OF HOUSEHOLD SUP-
PLIES, FROM SEVENTY-ONE LEADING LOCALITIES IN
THE STATE, FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1898.

In preparing the annexed tables of the comparative cost of living in the various sections of the State, reports were gathered from seventyone leading localities as to the prices prevailing during the month of June, 1898, for fifty-one of the principal articles of household consumption.

These articles are given in the tables, with their average price for these localities.

The total cost of the entire list for each locality is also given, together with the average price per article, the quotient obtained by dividing this total by the number of priced articles reported, wherever the report was fairly complete.

This average price per unit of the list of supplies furnishes a means of judging the relative expensiveness of living at the localities enumerated, and these are given with their percentage, on a scale in which Princeton, which reports the highest average cost, ranks as 100.

SUMMARY TABLE 1.

Average Retail Prices of Groceries and Supplies in New Jersey During the Month of June, 1898.