City, New Orleans, and Washington, D. C. A majority of the hotel workers in all other cities were employed on a 40-hour workweek schedule. Vacations with pay were provided by virtually all of the hotels. The large majority of the workers in nearly all cities were granted a week's vacation after 1 year of service and 2 weeks' after 3 or more years of service (table 2). Paid holiday provisions were common in 10 of the 19 cities. A majority of the workers in Buffalo, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York City, and Philadelphia received 6 days a year; those in San Francisco, 5 days; those in SpringfieldHolyoke (Mass.) and Washington, D. C., 3 days; and those in Chicago and Seattle, 2 days. A majority of the workers in all cities were employed by hotels providing at least a part of the cost of various types of insurance plans. Life, hospitalization, and surgical insurance were the most commonly reported types (table 2). Sickleave plans and catastrophe insurance (extended medical coverage) benefits were also covered in the study but were infrequently found. Philadelphia and San Francisco were the only cities in which a majority of the workers were provided sick-leave benefits; catastrophe insurance was virtually nonexistent, except in Chicago. The wage data summarized in this report relate to average straight-time hourly earnings, excluding premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts. Tips and the value of room and board, provided some hotel workers, were also excluded. The study included year-round hotels employing 51 or more workers. Altogether, nearly 92,000 workers were covered in the 19 cities studied. The following table indicates the estimated number of hotels and service workers within scope of the Bureau's study in each of these cities: 1 Studies were confined to city limits with the following exceptions: Los Angeles-downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood; New York City-Borough of Manhattan only; San Francisco-San Francisco County; Seattle King County; Springfield-Holyoke-standard metropolitan area. Includes only establishments employing 51 or more workers. TABLE 1.-Average straight-time hourly earnings of men and women in selected occupations in hotels, 19 cities, summer 19551 Region and city of Number Average Number Average Number Average Number Average hourly of hourly of hourly of hourly of workers earings workers earnings workers earnings workers earnings workers Number Average Number Average Number Average hourly of hourly of hourly earnings workers earnings workers earnings 1 Excludes premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts. 2 An agreement signed Aug. 25, 1955, provided that all union workers in New York An agreement signed Sept. 16, 1955, covering union members provided that all un- NOTE.-Dashes indicate no data or insufficient data to warrant presentation, TABLE 2.-Percent of service workers employed in hotels with formal provisions for selected supplementary wage benefits,1 19 cities, summer 1955 1 Supplementary benefits were treated on the basis that in formal provisions in an * Limited to full-day holidays provided annually. 4 Includes only those plans for which at least a part of the cost is borne by the employer studos leially required plans such as workinen's compensation and social security. In addition to the plans listed separately, data were collected on sick leave provisions A majority of the workers were employed in establishments providing 2 weeks' vaca- 7 A majority of the workers were employed in establishments providing 1 week's vacation after 3 years of service. Less than 2.5 percent. 96 5 4 100 2 672 7 100 ཚོ ཙ ཚཚོཌཱུརྦཎྜ ཙཎྜ ནིསོ རྗེ 16 6 64 98 95 45 29 72 72 100 100 96 23 Hotels (average hourly earnings for selected occupations) 1 1 The study covered year-round hotels (group 7011 as defined in the 1949 edition of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual prepared by the Bureau of the Budget) employing 51 or more workers. 2 Earnings data exclude tips and the value of free room and board, if any. |