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Factory labor rate
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I just saw this parker letter that pertains to labor charges for repairs.
$.50 an hour for repairs to a customer's gun. |
I have wondered about that for awhile.I have seen the charges for a number of services but never could find what Parker charged to cut barrels down.If anyone knows please post.
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Some people still expect gunsmiths to work for 50 cents and hour.
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I have seen some work from "gunsmiths" and that was what they should have been paid.
Had an octagon barrel muzzleloader tapped for a scope. Could not get the bullet to seat over the powder. You can guess why. :cuss: "All are not hunters that blow the horn." |
Fifty cents per hour was their retail labor rate but I wonder what the worker was paid.
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what time period did the workers get 50 cents and hour...i got paid 50 cents and hour back in 1963 useing a pick and shovel for the summer...charlie
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January 1904, but as Dean said that was the retail rate. Laborer might have made $.20 or $.25/hr. would be my guess.
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I remember reading that they made .10centper hour and there wasn't any such thing as overtime.
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I searched the web and it seems that the average wage in 1904 was $.22 per hour. I also learned that 18% of the households had at least one full time servant or domestic. I doubt that at $.22 per hour that they could afford a Parker, BUT I assume that at least 18% of the households could. Business must have been good for Parker.
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I need some trigger work done; I figure it ought to run me about two bucks :).
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