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TABLE Mil
Distribution
of Placements
of Extras by
the Central Casting Corporation
at
Specified Daily Wage Hates
, 1930 and 1933 a/
1930
1933
Daily Wage
Number
Per Cent
Humber b/
Per Cent
Rate
of Total
of Total
Total
143,209
100.0
126,934
100.0
$3.00
206
.1
34, 386
27,0
5.00
34,075
23.8
51,102
40.3
10.00
109,128
76.1
41,446
32.7
Source: Transcript of ERA Hearing, Motion Picture Industry, September 12, 1933
a/ The number of placements does not represent the total number of
extras placed, but covers only those placements made at the wage rates shown.
b/ Estimated by prorating the placements for the first half of 1933.
Average Hourly Wage Hate
There are no accurate average figures available which represent the composite hourly wage rate for all classes of wage earners in the production division of the Industry/-. The minimum hourly wage rate specified in the Code for all classes of employees was 40 cents. The range in minimum rates for various classes of studio mechanics and laboratory workers was from 60 cents to $2,25 per hour. Reports of the Research and Planning Division of KRA and from the Division Administrator's Office have indicated that the Code rates represented an estimated increase of approximately 15 per cent over the 1929 rates. It is believed that the increases applied main^ in the lov/er wage brackets, where labor is largely unorganized.
Average Hours Worked per Week
Table XVIII gives the prevailing hours of labor per week in the production division of the Industry for the year 1929. More than 60 per cent of the total number of establishments worked their employees "between 45 and 48 hours per week. The total number of wage earners in this group amounted to 86 per cent of the total number of wage earners. Only ,1 of one per cent of the wage earners worked 48 hours or more per week.
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