In every instance it is seen that it is the skilled laborer—the cook—who commands the highest wages. The general servant who is expected to unite in herself all the functions of all the other employees named in the list becomes, on account of this fact, an unskilled worker, and, therefore, receives the lowest wages. The same principle holds true in the case of the seamstress and the laundress, the gardener and the choreman. It is difficult to make a deduction in the case of men employed in household service, since no universal custom prevails, as with women employees, in regard to adding to the wages paid in money, board, lodging, and other personal expenses. TABLE VIII AVERAGE WEEKLY AND DAILY WAGES BY OCCUPATIONS ===============================+================================= | WEEKLY WAGES +---------------------+----------- OCCUPATION | General schedule of | Boston +----------+----------+ employment | Employer | Employee | bureau -------------------------------+----------+----------+----------- WOMEN | | | Cooks | $3.80 | $3.64 | $4.45 Parlor maids | | | 3.94 Cooks and laundresses | 3.50 | 3.27 | Chambermaids | 3.31 | 3.47 | 3.86 Waitresses | 3.23 | 3.15 | 3.76 Second girls | 3.04 | 3.27 | 3.34 Chambermaids and waitresses | 2.99 | 3.21 | General servants | 2.94 | 2.88 | 3.16 MEN | | | Coachmen | 7.84 | | Coachmen and gardeners | 6.54 | | Butlers | 6.11 | | Cooks | 6.08 | | -------------------------------+----------+----------+----------- | DAILY WAGES -------------------------------+----------+----------+----------- WOMEN | | | Seamstresses | $1.01 | | Laundresses | .82 | | MEN | | | Gardeners | 1.33 | | Choremen | .87 | | ===============================+==========+==========+===========