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PAP.T II: PRODUCTION
Chapter II. Labor Statistics
Total Number of Eirol oyees
Table XI shows the average annual number of employees, in the production division as reported by the Census of Manuf actures,. The Ho t i o n P i c tar e Almanac has estimated the total employment as 30,000 in 1933, compared with the Census figure of 19.037 for the same year.
TABLE XI
Average Annual Number of Salaried Employees and of
Wage Earners
1929 1931 1933
Salaried Employees 8,818 — 8,260
Wage Earners 10,784 — 10,777
Total 19,602 14,839 a/ 19,037
Source: Census of Manufactures, 1933, "Motion Pictures, Hot Including Projection in Theatres."
a/ Figures for 1931 are incomplete and not comparable with figures for other years.
Ilumber of "Extras"
There are no accurate data as to the total number of "extras" employed in the Industry. Mr. Allen Garcia-, representing extras, stated at the hearing on the proposed Code that the total number of this type of employee registered and available has been variously estimated as between 8,000 and 14,000 annually* 1/
In addition, complete data are not available as to the total number of placements of extras, but Table XII shows the number of such placements made by the Central Casting Corporation, the leading employment agency for obtaining jobs for this t"/pe of employee. The number reported by this agency is considered to represent a great majority of the total number of placements.
1/ Transcript of NBA Hearing, Motion Picture Industry, September 12, 1933.
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