46 LOGGING 
"$3.75 
"$3.50 
"$3.25 
"$3.00 
"$2.75 
"$2.50 
"$2.25 
"$2.00 
6^c per thousand feet 
.6c 
5ic 
5c 
. 4ic 
4c 
3|c 
3c 
"To illustrate: If the standard for yarder No. 1 is 1500 thousand feet 
for the month of April and this yarder puts in 1700 thousand feet, then all 
of the men who have complied with the above requirements will receive in 
addition to their wages the premium on 200 thousand feet of logs, or, for in- 
stance, if a man receives $3.00 per day, he will get $10 premium in addition 
to his wages. 
"The train crews will receive their premiums on the above basis of one 
yarder; if they haul for two yarders their proportion wiU be one-half of the 
above scale; if for three yarders, one-third, etc., * * * ." 
Some bonus plans used by the logging industry determine the 
volume on which the premium shall be paid in much the same 
manner as above, but instead of paying a bonus of a certain number 
of cents per thousand feet log scale for all timber over the base, 
the premium is determined by increasing the guaranteed daily 
wage 1 per cent for each 10,000 feet log scale, monthly average, 
above the base. Thus, if the daily average of the crew during 
the month was 20,000 feet log scale above the base, then an em- 
ployee would receive a 2 per cent bonus on his daily wage. 
Thus a workman whose daily guaranteed wage was $5 would re- 
ceive a total of S5.10 per day. 
' When the bonus system has been fairly applied it has produced 
results which, in general, have been satisfactory to the employer 
and the employees, because the former has secured greater out- 
put from a given amount of equipment at a reduced cost and the 
latter has been able to earn a higher wage than was possible under 
the hour or day basis. One firm reported an increase of 40 per 
cent in the output of yarding crews after the introduction of a 
bonus system with an average bonus to workmen of 20 per cent 
of their wage. One drawback to the system which was apparent 
on some operations was that the worlcmen, in their zeal to earn 
a high bonus, put in long hours and within a period of a few months 
were forced to lay off in order to recuperate. This disrupted the 
crews, since the best men were the ones who were forced to cease 
work. This objection possibly may be overcome by setting a 
