Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-30 | Page 4 | British Servants' Wages

- BRITISH SERVANTS' WAGES. A cook must be a good one to get $15. A butler seldom gets more than 20 a month. Housemaids can be had in shoals at $5 to $10 a month. A footman may get (12.50, but the price runs from $8 upward. The head gardener will get about $350 to $300 a year and a house. A laundress gets $10 to $12.50, and a very good one $15 a month. Under gardeners get about $3 to $5 a week and a certain amount of vegetables and fruit in swason. Kitchen maids at first get but little, sometimes $2 or $3 a month, but thy rise gradually until they become cooks. The household servants always receive washing expenses. These vary according accord-ing to the grade of the servant. A butler will get $3.50 a month and a lower servant serv-ant only $1.50, a housekeeper $3 and a lower maid as little rs $1. New York Commercial Advertiser.