Show CONTRASTS IN NEW YORK are salaries in new york keeping pace with the increase in the cot co t of living is answered in the affirmative by a statistician who has investigated prices and wages under big headlines it recently was announced that there were fully a score of men in new york city on regular salaries whose pay was equal to a year each while at least two hundred more received salaries ranging from to each this is entirely exclusive of retainer fees paid regularly to attorneys tor the big corporations it also takes no consideration of the salary paid to the president of tho united states steel corporation which generally is credited with touching the mark an income of to a year tor lour typical new yorker of the middle class does not go very far in these days of the elaborate apartment houses and still more elaborate restaurants some average new yorkers dina daily and where all expenses are most disproportionate to those of the generation gone by statistics recently compiled throw interesting light on the incomes derived from the various professions in tho metropolis there are approximately a dozen physicians each ot whom earns an income twice the size of the salary of the president of the united states the city also boasts of ten physicians whose incomes exceed 50 each and some fifty more whose average earnings are there are about a dozen lawyers with average incomes of each and a half a dozen architects on about the same financial plane yet as new york is a city 0 contrast the average incomes of all the lawyers architects and physicians in the city is estimated to bo between 1500 and 2000 annually the church appears to be the poorest paying profession only one clergyman being credited with a salary of a year and the average earnings of the men of the cloth is but an average of 2000 is the college professors of the city although the leading ones in most cases are paid at least it is the typical business men especially ally those of the world of wall street and excluding the small merchants scattered all over the city whose incomes average well above and even a year these are the men who are prominent at the theartres theatres the atres restaurants and places of public entertainment and it is estimated that out of the four million souls now living in dreater new york five hundred thousand arc in possession of incomes exceeding 5 a year but there is a mighty army receiving scarcely enough to exist on one tenth of the population Is pauperized and one halt is without a dollar placed away for a rainy day |