The average salary a week was how much in the 1930's?

Answer 1

My mother made $2.00/week, plus streetcar fare of 8cents, and she got lunch cleaning a rich family's house.
My father earned $2.00/week working in a steel mill in Pittsburgh, six days/week, 12 hours/day.
No welfare, no help of any type, and before Social Security.

Answer 2

Well in a generalized answer and depending on who you resource, it works out like this; average income per year in 1930's was between $1368 to $1945. Based on those figures a week wage of a 40 hour week(a stanadard work week might however be much more then this) would be $28.50 to $40.52. You must remember at this time the thought of a federal standard wage applied broadly didn't exist(some industries had started min wages but as a whole the federal goverment had no requirement). Geographically the nation did not have a central banking or investing operation so local commodiaties could very even from locality to locality by large percentages.
You are also taking about a decade in which the united states was grounded in the Great Depression and the failures of the Dust Bowl. So Prices have wildly differing inflation values.

Answer 3

Your questions is poor. First of all are your asking about the United States average? Also do you want 1930 average or the mean of the average salary from1930-39? Also you should not be asking for a salary per week since searches for that type of information will be hard to find, rather divide the yearly average by 52 and you'll have your answer.

It is also very key to remember that this was during the Great Depression period for the United States so the average salary would be extremely low since unemployment was so high. This question will never be answered by any source you would be able to cite in a paper. Rather you should be comparing unemployment rates before, during, and after the Great Depression.

Don't know if this is something you'd be intrested in:

This paper examines the ability of a simple stylized general equilibrium model that incorporates nominal wage rigidity to explain the magnitude and persistence of the Great Depression in the United States. The impulses to our analysis are money supply shocks. The Taylor contracts model is surprisingly successful in accounting for the behavior of major macroaggregates and real wages during the downturn phase of the Depression, i.e., from 1929:3 through mid-1933. Our analysis provides support for the hypothesis that a monetary contraction operating through a sticky wage channel played a significant role in accounting for the downturn, and also provides an interesting refinement to this explanation. In particular, both the absolute severity of the Depression’s downturn and its relative severity compared to the 1920-21 recession are likely attributable to the price decline having a much larger unanticipated component during the Depression, as well as less flexible wage-setting practices during this latter period. Another finding casts doubt on explanations for the
1933-36 recovery that rely heavily on the substantial remonetization that began in 1933.

Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/1997/591/ifdp591.pdf

Answer 4

Don't know the answer to your question, but as an example, Privates in the US Army were paid $21 a month in 1940.

Answer 5

It would depend on your occupation but as I recall from reading about this and hearing my grandfather talk, between $30 and $50 bucks was thought to be a pretty darned good job.

Answer 6

My grandfather made 24.50 per week. He was in the US NAVY from 1917 until 1945, and that was the average allotment he sent to my grandmother, who just happened to be a C.P.A...That's what it averaged to weekly.

Answer 7

Twenty bucks a week was considered good pay for a clerk or a laborer. In fact, having a job was considered fortunate.

Answer 8

3 donkey's a week

Answer 9

$3.52345