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PART 17: EXHIBITION Chapter II. Labor Statistics
Number of Employees
Census data for the years prior to 1933 are not available on employment and wages in the exhibition branch of the Industry. Table XXXVI, taken from the Census of American Business, 1933, shows the total number of employees and the average number employed per motion picture theatre. The figure of 6.9 for the average number employed per theatre is lower than that reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a study made of eleven neighborhood theatres in Washington, D. C, in the latter part of 1931, when an average of 10.7 employees per theatre was reported (See Table XL, "below). However, according to figures given in trade publications such as the Film Daily s Variety, and Motion Picture Almanac, theatres have been reported to average about 16 employees. It is considered that the average for the entire country approaches the latter figure as reported by the trade publications, especially since the higher figure is further supported "by the fact that employees such as musicians, vaudeville talent, and office employees were omitted from the Washington survey.
TABLE XXXVI
Annual Average Number Employed, Pull and Part-Time, "by Types of Theatres, 1933 aj
Total
Pull-Time
Part-Time
Average
Employees
Type of Theatre Num
Per Cent
Num Pel
' Cent
Num Per Cent
per
ber
of Total
her of
Total
ber of Total
Theatre
Motion Picture only 65,728
100.0
54,030
82.2
11,698 17.0
6.9
Motion Picture and
Vaudeville 8,635
100.0
7,924
91.8
711 8.2
13.4
Total Theatres showing
Motion Pictures 74,363
100.0
61,954
83*3
12,409 16.7
7ยป3
Source: Census of American Business. 1933. "Service, Amusements, and Hotel s,1'
a/ Includes proprietors.
Total Annual Payrolls
Table XXXVII shows total payrolls for moving picture theatres in 1933. Por all types of motion picture houses, full-time payrolls amounted to 94 per cent of the total.
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