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increased fron 13.5 per cent in 1929 to 15.4 per cent in 1933, or a gain of 14 per cent. While the annual salaries paid in 1929 decreased from $60,168,000 to $52,948,000, the -per cent of total cost of production which these figures represent rose from 32.7 per cent in 1929 to 44.4 per cent in 1933 or a gain of 36 per cent,
TABLE XVI
Total Cost of Production, Annual Salaries and Annual Wages
1929 and 1933
Year Total Cost of Total Salaries and Salaries Wage;
Production Wages
(000's) Amount Per Cent of Amount Per Cent Amount Per Cent o?
Total Cost (000' s) of Total (000's) Total Cosi
Cost
1929 $184,102 $85,028 46.2 $60,168 32.7 $24,860 13.5
1933 119,343 71,343 59.8 52,948 44.4 18,395 15.4
Source: Census of Manufactures, 1933, "Motion Pictures, Hot Including Projection in Theatres'1.
Wages of Extras
Table XII above indicates the average wage per extras placed "by the Central Casting Corporation. These figures were derived "by dividing the total annual wages by the total number of placements. It must be understood that the average \7age per placement as shown does not represent the average wage of all registered extras, but merely of those placed by this particular agency.
Table XVII indicates the reduction between 1930 and 1933 in the number of extras, as placed by the Central Casting Corporation who received high daily wage rates. In the former year three-fourths of the placements reported in the table received $10.00 per day while in 1933 only onethird were placed at this rate. The number receiving daily wages of $5.00 increased from 24 per cent to 40 per cent while the number in the $3.00 wage class in-ยป creased from .1 of one per cent in 1930 to 27 per cent in 1933.
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