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Column Name: mwage Span: 1870-1997 Units: 1870-1940: Dollars; 1947-1958: Thousands of dollars; 1972-1997: Millions of dollars Format: 1870-1958: Integer; 1972-1997: Floating point – one decimal place  Wages represent the total amount paid in wages during the year. Data for salaried officials, if returned at all, were returned with wage earners proper. Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: -U.S. Census Office. Twelfth Decennial Census of the United States, 1900. Volume VIII, Manufactures, Part I. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902. -U.S. Census Office. Tenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1880. Volume II, Report on the Manufactures of the United States at the Tenth Census. General Statistics. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883.  Wages represent all wages and salaries paid to workers in manufacturing (i.e. officers, firm members, and clerks; operatives, skilled and unskilled; and pieceworkers). Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Census Office. Eleventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1890. Volume VI, Report on Manufacturing Industries in the United States at the Eleventh Census, Part I. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.  Wages represent the gross amount paid to labor in the form of wages.
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source:  Wages represent all compensation paid to production workers during the year. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1920. Volume VIII, Manufactures: 1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923.
 Wages are the total compensation of salaried officers, employees, and wage earners (including those employed on a piece-price basis). Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1930. Manufactures: 1929, Volume III. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933.  Workers wages represent the pay received by all wage earners employed at manufacturing establishments. This total includes production workers wages as well as those of wage earners engaged in distribution, construction, and other non-manufacturing work. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1940. Manufactures: 1939, Volume III. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1942. Annual payroll represents the gross earnings for the year including salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, nonproduction bonuses, vacation and sick leave pay, and compensation in kind. Payroll is reported before deductions for Social Security, withholding taxes, group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. County and City Data Book, 1952 (A Statistical Abstract Supplement). Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1953. Annual payroll represents the gross compensation, including salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, vacation allowances, sick-leave pay, and the value of payments in kind, paid in 1958 to all employees of manufacturing establishments. Salaries of officers of incorporated establishments are included, but payments on drawing accounts of proprietors or partners, payments to members of the Armed Forces and pensioners on the active payroll, and employees’ Social Security contributions and other non-payroll labor costs are excluded. Payroll is reported before deductions for Social Security, income tax, insurance, union dues, etc.
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