Show Wages Outpace Costs Locally SPECIAL TO CLIPPER CUPPER How much can the average worker in Davis County purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase today with his weekly pay check HOW DOES this compare with the buying power of a weeks week's work in his fathers father's day In general according to figures released by the Bureau Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- Bu- Bu reau of Labor Statistics even though the cost of living has zoomed since then the working working working work work- ing man is in a much better economic position now WITHOUT putting in as many hours on the job as was necessary in his fathers father's time he is abie to live more luxuriously luxuriously luxuriously lux lux- than was possible then The increase in his income income income in in- come has more than made up for Cor the increase in living costs Twenty years ago for Cor example example example ex ex- ample it took 37 n hours of work to buy an electric vacuum vacuum vacuum vac vac- cleaner Today it can be bought with less than 15 hours of work A PAIR OF nylon stockings that required 40 minutes on the job at that time can now be purchased after alter 19 min min- utes Similarly with many other items The average working man manin manin manin in Davis County now earns enough in 15 minutes to buy buya a pound of bacon or a pound of coffee which is about half the time he would have needed needed needed need need- ed in 1959 BY PUTTING in 24 minutes of oC work he is able to buy a pound of oC round steak best grade He can get an automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile tire size by 15 with the proceeds of some 9 4 hours on the job i In dollars and cents these items are priced higher but because hourly wages have gone up upata at ata a faster they they- V amount to less in in terms of t working time IN DA DAVIS VIS County it is shown income per household household household house house- hold is 76 percent higher on average than it was 10 years ago The cost of living on the other hand has risen only 20 percent in the period Just how an hour 8 day daybreaks daybreaks daybreaks breaks down for the typical American worker in meeting his various bills is shown in ina a Tax Foundation study IT FINDS that two hours and 34 minutes of oC it goes to pay his taxes Another hour goes for housing and household household household house house- hold needs 56 minutes for Cor food tobacco and alcoholic beverages and 40 minutes for Cor transportation The rest is for Cor clothing 25 minutes medical 21 recreation recreation recreation tion 18 and all aU others one hour and 46 minutes |