Wages Per Year:
5 Pounds - Head housemaid, 1761
7 Pounds - Head footman, 1761
22 shillings, 6 pence (per week) - Pickman for the canals work groups
building the canals
24 shillings (per week) - Shoveller for the canal work groups
33 shillings (per week) - skilled men such as bricklayers and masons
11 - 14 Pounds - Housemaid, 1850's and 1860's, 12 - 22 Pounds in 1894
11 - 17 Pounds - Cooks, 1850's and 1860's
20 Pounds (per week) - Singer at the Canterbury Music Hall
1000 Pounds (per week) - Sarah Bernhardt at the Coliseum Variety
House
18 Pounds - Lady's-maid, 1865
12 Pounds - Scullery Maid, 1865
17 Pounds - Nurse-maids
50 Pounds - Cook, 1865
40 Pounds - Coachman, 1865
60 Pounds - Valet, 1865, 70 Pounds in 1894
90 Pounds - Gardener, 1865
Duke of Bedford - 300,000 Pounds (about $90 million US)
Duke of Westminster - 250,000 Pounds (just from London properties)
17 Shillings, 6 Pence - average weekly earnings for farm worker in
1906
Agricultural Labourers
£17, 15s., 7d. average yearly nominal income, 1710.
Day Labourers
16 to 18 pence a day
General Labourers
£19, 4s., 5d. average yearly nominal income, 1710
Messengers, Porters (exc. govt.)
£31, 3s., average yearly nominal income, 1710.
Miners
£22, 9s., 2d. average yearly nominal income, 1710.
Costs in the 1850's
Seat in the body of the Canterbury hall, a popular tavern concert
room - 6 pence
Seat in the gallery of the Canterbury - 9 pence
Costs in the 1860's
Gallery seat at South London Palace of Varieties in Lambeth - 3
pence; balcony and stalls - 1 shilling
Good seat plus a five-course meal at the Oxford Music Hall - 2
shillings, 6 pence
Flat rate fare for the City and South London railway in 1890 - 2
pence
Electric Victoria car whose driver sat on a platform above the rear
wheels looking over the heads of the 2 passengers and could travel 40
miles on a charge at a max speed of 12 miles per hour - 570 Pounds
Costs in 1906
Rent - 1 shilling 6 pence
3 lbs. of Sugar - 5-1/2 pence
1/2 lb. of tea - 8 pence
1-1/2lbs. of butter - 1 shilling 6 pence
1 pint of beer - 2 pence
2 oz tobacco - 6 pence