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 Weekly Earnings, First Class Railroad Employees, Unskilled Labor for United States Series ID: Q08045USQ052NNBR Source: National Bureau of Economic Research Release: NBER Macrohistory Database (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Quarterly Units: Dollars Date Range: 1921-01-01 to 1932-10-01 Last Updated: 2012-08-17 2:31 PM CDT Notes: For Method Of Computation See Description Of Series. July 1930-1932 Data Were Computed By NBER By The Same Method. A 10% Pay Cut Occured February 1, 1932. For Cuts Before And After See Statistics Of Railways, Icc, 1932, P. 5-26. Source: Computed By The National Industrial Conference Board From Data In "Wage Statistics", Interstate Commerce Commission. This NBER data series q08045 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html. NBER Indicator: q08045 DATE VALUE 1921-01-01 21.81 1921-04-01 22.05 1921-07-01 18.34 1921-10-01 17.85 1922-01-01 17.93 1922-04-01 18.21 1922-07-01 17.11 1922-10-01 17.33 1923-01-01 17.83 1923-04-01 18.58 1923-07-01 18.62 1923-10-01 17.93 1924-01-01 17.85 1924-04-01 17.90 1924-07-01 17.82 1924-10-01 17.64 1925-01-01 18.06 1925-04-01 18.07 1925-07-01 18.04 1925-10-01 17.72 1926-01-01 17.83 1926-04-01 18.24 1926-07-01 18.18 1926-10-01 17.96 1927-01-01 17.98 1927-04-01 18.33 1927-07-01 18.03 1927-10-01 17.67 1928-01-01 17.89 1928-04-01 18.08 1928-07-01 17.92 1928-10-01 17.72 1929-01-01 17.97 1929-04-01 18.30 1929-07-01 18.30 1929-10-01 17.92 1930-01-01 17.84 1930-04-01 17.87 1930-07-01 17.28 1930-10-01 16.81 1931-01-01 16.69 1931-04-01 16.85 1931-07-01 16.18 1931-10-01 15.07 1932-01-01 14.06 1932-04-01 13.52 1932-07-01 12.68 1932-10-01 12.51