The motion picture industry (Nov 1935)

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-31 PART III; DISTRIBUTION Chapter II. Labor Statistics Average Annual Number of Employees Census data as presented in Table XXVII place trie average annual employment of all exchanges at 9,342 in 1929. Of these, about 20 per cent were executives or salesmen. Total Number of Employees by Types of Exchanges As shorn, in Table XXV, above, producers' exchanges reported 8,797, or 94 per cent of the total number of employees. Independent exchanges employed 4 per cent, and the export group accounted for less than 2 per cent of the total. Average Annual Payrolls According to Table XXVII, the average annual payroll covering all employees was $17,978,000 in 1929, Executives, who constituted less than 4 per cent of total employees, received almost 14 per cent, while the salesmen, amounting to 17 per cent of the total number, received 35 per cent of the total payroll. The remaining employees, who constituted almost 80 per cent of the total employees, received 51 per cent of the total payroll. TABLE XXVII Average Annual Number of Employees and Average Annual Payrolls, 1929 Kind of Employee Employees payrolls Number Per Cent of Total Amount (000ยป s) Per Cent of Total Total 9,342 100.0 $17,978 100.0 Executives 335 r7 O. O 2,468 13.7 Salesmen 1,562 16.7 6,253 34.8 Other Employees 7,445 79.7 9,257 51.5 Source: Census of Distribution, 1929, "Motion Picture Films" (Trade Series, Distribution No. 1,7-201). Per Cent Salaries and Wages are of Total Expense In 1929 salaries and wages constituted the largest single item of expense, amounting to about one-half of total expenses for all types of exchanges. In both the producer and independent type of exchange, total salaries and wages accounted for about one-half the total expenses, but in the export exchanges, this percentage was somewhat less. (See Table XXVI, above.) 8976