NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Average Hourly Earnings, Cotton, Silk, and Synthetic Fiber Manufacturing for United States Series ID: M0803BUSM265NNBR Source: National Bureau of Economic Research Release: NBER Macrohistory Database (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Monthly Units: Cents per Hour Date Range: 1947-01-01 to 1959-03-01 Last Updated: 2012-08-17 2:31 PM CDT Notes: Series Is Presented Here As Two Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1920-1948 (2)--Original Data, 1947-1959. From 1951 On, The Figures Have Been Rounded And No Fractions Of Cents Are Available In The Source. Source: For 1947-1952, Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Employment, Hours, And Earnings, Manufacturing Division, Textile-Mill Products Group, "Cotton, Silk, Synthetic Fiber" (Sic Industry 2231), Releases Ls 53-1607 (February, 1953) And (May, 1955) Not Numbered; For 1952-1959, June, 1956 And July, 1958 Releases And Monthly Labor Review, "Employment And Earnings". This NBER data series m08203b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html. NBER Indicator: m08203b DATE VALUE 1947-01-01 93.7 1947-02-01 95.2 1947-03-01 100.0 1947-04-01 100.2 1947-05-01 99.4 1947-06-01 98.9 1947-07-01 99.3 1947-08-01 100.1 1947-09-01 101.0 1947-10-01 101.7 1947-11-01 107.3 1947-12-01 108.3 1948-01-01 110.2 1948-02-01 111.2 1948-03-01 111.1 1948-04-01 110.7 1948-05-01 110.8 1948-06-01 110.5 1948-07-01 110.1 1948-08-01 113.8 1948-09-01 116.0 1948-10-01 115.7 1948-11-01 115.7 1948-12-01 115.7 1949-01-01 115.2 1949-02-01 115.4 1949-03-01 114.8 1949-04-01 114.2 1949-05-01 114.1 1949-06-01 114.3 1949-07-01 114.3 1949-08-01 114.8 1949-09-01 115.5 1949-10-01 116.4 1949-11-01 116.7 1949-12-01 116.8 1950-01-01 117.3 1950-02-01 117.1 1950-03-01 117.2 1950-04-01 116.3 1950-05-01 115.8 1950-06-01 116.3 1950-07-01 116.8 1950-08-01 117.6 1950-09-01 118.3 1950-10-01 126.6 1950-11-01 127.1 1950-12-01 127.9 1951-01-01 128.0 1951-02-01 129.0 1951-03-01 129.0 1951-04-01 129.0 1951-05-01 129.0 1951-06-01 129.0 1951-07-01 127.0 1951-08-01 127.0 1951-09-01 128.0 1951-10-01 128.0 1951-11-01 129.0 1951-12-01 130.0 1952-01-01 129.0 1952-02-01 129.0 1952-03-01 129.0 1952-04-01 128.0 1952-05-01 129.0 1952-06-01 129.0 1952-07-01 129.0 1952-08-01 129.0 1952-09-01 130.0 1952-10-01 130.0 1952-11-01 130.0 1952-12-01 130.0 1953-01-01 130.0 1953-02-01 130.0 1953-03-01 130.0 1953-04-01 130.0 1953-05-01 130.0 1953-06-01 129.0 1953-07-01 129.0 1953-08-01 129.0 1953-09-01 130.0 1953-10-01 129.0 1953-11-01 129.0 1953-12-01 129.0 1954-01-01 128.0 1954-02-01 129.0 1954-03-01 129.0 1954-04-01 128.0 1954-05-01 129.0 1954-06-01 128.0 1954-07-01 128.0 1954-08-01 129.0 1954-09-01 129.0 1954-10-01 129.0 1954-11-01 130.0 1954-12-01 130.0 1955-01-01 129.0 1955-02-01 130.0 1955-03-01 129.0 1955-04-01 130.0 1955-05-01 130.0 1955-06-01 129.0 1955-07-01 129.0 1955-08-01 130.0 1955-09-01 135.0 1955-10-01 135.0 1955-11-01 136.0 1955-12-01 135.0 1956-01-01 135.0 1956-02-01 135.0 1956-03-01 136.0 1956-04-01 135.0 1956-05-01 135.0 1956-06-01 135.0 1956-07-01 134.0 1956-08-01 135.0 1956-09-01 135.0 1956-10-01 142.0 1956-11-01 143.0 1956-12-01 143.0 1957-01-01 143.0 1957-02-01 142.0 1957-03-01 143.0 1957-04-01 143.0 1957-05-01 142.0 1957-06-01 143.0 1957-07-01 143.0 1957-08-01 143.0 1957-09-01 144.0 1957-10-01 144.0 1957-11-01 144.0 1957-12-01 143.0 1958-01-01 143.0 1958-02-01 143.0 1958-03-01 142.0 1958-04-01 141.0 1958-05-01 142.0 1958-06-01 143.0 1958-07-01 142.0 1958-08-01 143.0 1958-09-01 144.0 1958-10-01 144.0 1958-11-01 145.0 1958-12-01 145.0 1959-01-01 144.0 1959-02-01 145.0 1959-03-01 151.0