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BULLETIN 711, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The following is a list of the wages — average, high, and low — 
paid by logging companies on the west side of the Cascades in 
Oregon and Washington during the last six or eight years. The 
wages designated high and low do not represent extremes. For 
example, the wages paid at times during 1914 and 1915 averaged 
lower than those given in the list. Wages have remained at the same 
general level, rising or falling with fluctuations in the demand for 
labor. If there was any change, skilled labor received a little less 
toward the close of this period, common labor a little more. During 
slack times the wages of common labor are cut more heavily in pro- 
portion than those of skilled labor. 
Table 2. — Average wages paid during the six years ending in 1916. 
Position. 
Head bucker or timber 
inspector 
Head taller 
Second taller 
Bucker 
Filer 
Hooktender 
Rigging slinger 
Chokerman 
Chaser 
Swamper 
Sniper 
Signalman 
Yarding and road engine 
engineer 
Yarding and road engine 
fireman 
Wood buck 
Head loader 
Second loader 
Gypsy, or spool, tender. . 
Loading engine engineer 
Loading engine fireman. , 
Pump man 
Blacksmith ■. 
Wages per 
lay. 
Aver- 
age. 
High. 
Low. 
$3.50 
S3. 75 
$3.25 
3.50 
3.75 
3.25 
3.25 
3.50 
3.00 
3.25 
3.50 
3.00 
3.75 
4.00 
3.50 
5.25 
6.00 
4.50 
3.50 
3.75 
3.25 
3.25 
3.50 
3.00 
3.25 
3.50 
3.00 
3.00 
3.25 
2.75 
3.00 
3.25 
2.75 
2.75 
3.00 
2.50 
3.50 
3.75 
3.25 
2.50 
2.75 
2.25 
2.50 
2.75 
2.25 
4.25 
4.75 
3.50 
3.50 
3.75 
3.25 
3.00 
3.25 
2.75 
3.25 
3.50 
3.00 
2.50 
2.75 
2.25 
2.75 
3.00 
2.50 
3.75 
4.00 
3.50 
Position. 
Master mechanic 
Carpenter 
Car tinkerer 
Pole road construction 
foreman 
Pole road construction 
men 
Landing construction 
foreman 
Landing construction 
men 
Locomotive engineer 
Locomotive fireman 
Conductor or head brake- 
man 
Brakeman 
Section foreman 
Section men 
Railroad construction 
foreman 
Railroad construction 
men 
Rafting, or boom, fore- 
man 
Rafting, or boom, man.. 
Wages per day. 
Aver- 
age. 
$4.50 
3.50 
3.00 
4.50 
2.75 
4.00 
2.75 
4.00 
3.00 
3.50 
3.25 
3.25 
2.50 
4.50 
2.50 
3.50 
3.25 
High. 
$5.00 
5.00 
3.25 
5.25 
3.00 
4.50 
3.00 
4.50 
3.25 
4.00 
3.50 
3.50 
2.75 
5.50 
2.75 
4.00 
3.50 
Low. 
$3.00 
3.00 
2.75 
4.00 
2.50 
3.50 
2.50 
3.75 
2.75 
3.25 
3.00 
3.00 
2.25 
3.50 
2.25 
3.25 
3.00 
Certain employees who, as a rule, are paid by the month are not 
included in the above list. The monthly salaries of these men are 
about as follows, plus board : 
Foreman $125 to $250 
Bookkeeper 75 to 125 
Timekeeper 75 to 100 
Storekeeper 75 to 125 
Logging engineer 75 to 125 
Scaler 75 to 125 
Operators in the region feel that a well-fed man gives better service 
and is more likely to be satisfied with his work, so that a well-con- 
ducted boarding department is one of the features of most operations. 
