Show salaries Salar iea earned by successful buyers good bayer who year after year increases hib business and the reputation of his department who keayes for tin semiannual inventory a clean and desirable stock ono who in fact has the genius of money making is paid a salary in the big houses of from to and often a percentage on tho yearly increase of his sales in some oi the largest departments a number of the most capable buyers thus receive as much a a year and are regarded as cheap at that a fact which can be readily understood when it is remembered that in a single department of a great shop selling say worth of goods a year a difference of 5 percent in the profits which maybe tho result of a good manager as distinguished from a mediocre one amounts to on the other hand in the lower class stores buyers in many of the departments arc paid as low as 28 a week with ao percentage if the large incomes aro the great exception it is iso to be said that the opportunities are more numerous than the men with the ability to taho nayan tage of them the department store by amuel hopkins adams in scribners |