Table 2 showing Basic Daily Wage Rates For Zionist/Jewish Laborers in certain Selected Industrial Occupations, 1939 -1944 in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 736. Chapter XVII: Labour And Wages: Section 2: Wages and Earnings

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ment Statistician. The amounts of compensation paid are calculated thus :
Rate of allowance.
100% of the variation in the cost-of-living index over pre-war level.
40% of the variation in the cost-of-living index over pre-war level.
Rate of Wages.

(a) For that portion of the daily wage l up to 340 mils or

For that portion of the monthly wage up to £P.8.500.

(b) For that portion of the daily wage

between 340-420 mils or L

For that portion of the monthly wage j

between £P.8.500-£P.10.500. J

(c) For that portion of the wage exceeding 420 mils per day or £P.10.500 per month.

16. It is of interest to recast table 1 by extracting from the wage rates for Jews the element of compensatory allowance which has been included. The resulting figures (table 2) thus represent basic wages before any allowances of any type are added. Although they serve as a. measure for comparison with rates prevailing in other countries, it must be borne in mind that the effective wage rates are those shown in table 1. Only a limited number of Arab employers paid compensatory allowances; the market rates of wages included some degree of compensation for the higher cost of living.

Nothing additional.

Table 2.

BASIC DAILY WAGE RATES FOR JEWISH LABOURERS IN CERTAIN SELECTED INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS 1939-1944.

Occupation

I

1939

! Index Numbers

1943' 1944'1~~

1939 1943 1944

A. Jewish labour-males :-
Bakers-all operations 511 550 600 100.0 '107.6 117.4
Tobacco-all operations 350 355 450 100.0 101 4 128.6
Carpenter 370 382 450 100.0 103.2 121.6
Machine printer 453 480 550 100.0 106.0 121.4
Linotype operator 667 675 710 100.0 101.2 106.4
Hand compositor 444 500 560 100.0 112.6 126.1
Weaver 322 437 447 100.0 135.7 138.8
Shoe-maker 410 430 455 100.0 104.9 111.0
Fitter including machinist 346 417 567 100.0 120.5 163.9
Iron moulder 400 490 640 100.0 122.5 160.0
Turner 425 451 614 l*IO.O 106.1 144.5
Welder 400 477 521 100.0 119.3 130.3
Unweighted geometric average 100.0 111.4 129.7
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* Basic daily wage rates in 1943 and 1944 are computed by eliminating the agreed cost of living allowances.
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