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Average wages per hour for specified occupations in certain cities, 1945

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Average wages per hour for specified occupations in certain cities, 1945
	Halifax	Montréal	Toronto	Winnipeg	Vancouver
	$
Construction
Bricklayers and masons	1.15	1.06	1.23	1.25	1.29
Carpenters	0.95	0.96	1.11	1.05	1.12
Electrical workers	1.06	1.01	1.21	1.05	1.19
Painters	0.81	0.86	0.97	0.90	0.97
Plasterers	0.95	1.06	1.21	1.25	1.10
Plumbers	1.02	1.01	1.17	1.15	1.19
Sheet-metal workers	0.85	0.96	1.18	0.85	1.18
Labourers	0.52	0.61	0.67	0.63	0.71
Manufacturing
Unskilled factory labour, male	0.59	0.57	0.60	0.55	0.67
Transportation
Electric street railways
One-man car and bus operators¹	0.81²	0.71	0.80	0.79	0.85
Linemen	0.92	0.68	0.93	1.02	1.14
Shop and barnmen	0.66 to 0.95	0.48 to 0.76	0.68 to 0.92	0.59 to 0.89	0.68 to 0.995
Electricians	0.92	0.73	0.89	0.85	0.92
Trackmen and labourers	0.58 to 0.71	0.48 to 0.62	0.60 to 0.65	0.59 to 0.69	0.69 to 0.73
Printing and publishing
Compositors
News	1.00	1.20	1.35	1.02	1.19
Job	0.82	0.96	0.93	0.93	1.10
Pressmen
News	0.68	1.14	1.35	0.98	1.11
Job	0.78	0.90	0.91	0.87	1.06
Bookbinders	0.81	0.91	0.90	0.90	1.05
Bindery girls	0.34	0.38	0.43	0.39	0.54
1. Maximum rates based on length of service; $0.05 less for two-man car operators in Montréal, Toronto and Winnipeg; in Vancouver $0.06 less.
2. No bus operators.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.