JARDS A TABLE XIV.-Annual cost of a minimum budget for a single working woman living in a guesthouse and eating some of her meals in restaurants in the State of California, October 1950 1 Social security tax, including unemployment compensation disability Savings and private insurance.. Total cost of budget.. 50. 10 52.00 2, 003. 98 The budget is designed for a woman who is "entirely self-supporting, without dependents, single, between 30 and 35 years of age, employed in a mercantile establishment or an office, and living in a boarding and rooming house." 2 Based on prices obtained by the Division of Labor Statistics and Research in the areas of Los Angeles, San Francisco-East Bay, San Diego, and the city of Fresno for October 1950. Allowances in total commodities and services include sales and excise taxes. 3 Based on room and board in a guesthouse, including breakfast 7 days a week and dinner 6 days a week, less reduction allowed for 1 week away for vacation, plus lunch and Sunday dinner in restaurants, plus sales taxes. Food (including taxes) amounts to $760.12; housing $311.56. Calculated as 6 percent of total cost of commodities and services plus savings and insurance. In addition, an allowance of 1 percent of the total budget is included under social-security tax as the cost to the worker of the program which provides cash benefits for unemployment due to illness. Calculated on the basis of the first 9 months of 1950 at the tax rate effective prior to October 1, 1950, and the last 3 months at the rate becoming effective October 1, 1950. If, however, the tax were calculated entirely on the basis of the newer rate, the Federal tax would be $247.80, unemployment compensation disability benefit tax $20.44, old-age insurance tax $30.65, and the total budget $2,043.35. ⚫ California State income tax not paid by a person at this level of income. Source: California Industrial Welfare Commission. Budget for a Single Working Woman: Items, Quantities, and Costs as of October 1950. - XVII. Annual minimum budget for certain working persons in Massachusetts, February 19541 Estimated average annual cost, persons (men and women) entals (phone calls, stationery, postage, cigarettes, sodas, etc.) _ _ _. tal cost of commodities and services____ $313. 58 799. 35 247. 45 362. 69 39.90 64.80 104. 15 25.55 46. 80 14. 00 67.49 1, 723. 07 zet is based on prices obtained by the State of Massachusetts in 19 cities and towns during -January 1954. nber 1946, the Massachusetts minimum wage law was made applicable to adult male persons. budget represents the amount necessary to maintain a self-supporting person of either sex. od figure based on 51 weeks, remaining week included in vacation allotment. he Massachusetts cost-of-living budget is set up to show only the minimum expenditure for umption. Taxes, insurance, and savings are not included in the official figure. On the basis t allowed for commodities and services, Federal income and social-security taxes would amount $34.46, respectively, computed at rates applicable as of February 1954. The Massachusetts tax is not applicable to single persons with incomes under $2,000. assachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, the Division on the Necessaries of Life and m Wage Division. Annual and Weekly Minimum Budget for Certain Employed Persons setts, February 1954. (Mimeographed.) EXPLANATORY NOTES at home. Additional foods included in specified subgroups are shown is and cereal Uncooked cereals, etc.. try, and fish.. Stews, hamburger, frankfurters, fish, etc. Additional foods included Cornmeal, hominy, rice, rolled oats, wheat cereal, tapioca, sago, spaghetti, noodles, macaroni, cornstarch. Beef, boiling, corned, canned, chuck roast; Veal, stew; Lamb, stew, roasts other than leg; Pork, fresh, except chops and loin roast; Liver; Bologna. Roasts, round steak, pork Beef, roasts except rib and chuck, dried; Veal, chops, etc. Steaks, chops, rib roast, Lettuce, asparagus, peas, Cabbage, snapbeans, car- Celery, cauliflower, corn, Peas, spinach, etc. Tomatoes, tomato products. Beans, peas, etc... Apples, berries, bananas, Peaches, apple products, etc. Prunes, raisins, etc.. roast; Lamb, leg; Pork, loin roast, smoked ham (whole, half), sausage; Poultry, chicken, stewing; Canned, Cooked meats; Game. Beef, porterhouse, sirloin steak; Veal, steak, chops; Lamb, chops; Pork, cooked ham, smoked ham slices; Chickens, roasting, broiling; Turkey; Other poultry. Brussel sprouts, lima beans, peppers. Spinach, winter squash, pumpkin, broccoli, okra, kale, collards. Spring onions, eggplant, cucumbers. Winter onions, parsnips, summer squash, turnips, rutabagas. Asparagus, lima beans, snapbeans. Mushrooms, sauerkraut, soup (except tomato), pickles, olives. Tomato juice, puree, soup, paste, chili sauce, catsup. Lentils, dry corn, baked beans. Apricots, cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, pineapples, plums, melons. Same fruits as in preceding group and also other canned fruits, cider, grape juice, noncitrus fruit juices. Peaches, apricots, dates, figs, currants. vay from home.—The budget allows 21 meals per person per week or ls per year for the family. The quantities of food presented in the le provide 4,179 meals to be eaten at home or 80.4 meals per week for The budget includes the other 189 meals as meals eaten away from ents specified for fuel and utilities doe not apply when the cost of these items is included in the figure. ical refrigerator is not furnished in rented dwelling the amortized cost, equivalent to 6 percent se price, is a required addition to the annual cost of rent. It is assumed that a cook stove is ished with the dwelling. If not, an amount equal to 6 percent of the purchase price must be annual rent. ties electricity is the predominant type of fuel used for cooking and hot water heating. In 360 kilowatt hours should be substituted for 235 therms of gas. el requirements vary in relation to the length and severity of the cold season, type of structure, ating equipment. The variation caused by climate is measured in standard British thermal ible to equivalent quantities of coal, fuel oil, etc.) and the normal number of annual degreen city, as published by the U. S. Weather Bureau. The average number of B. t. u.'s required may be computed as follows: . t. u.'s -84.323+128.156 times the logarithm of the normal number of annual degree days. for Minneapolis the calculation gives 115.8 million B. t. u.'s; for Houston it gives 15.7 million y of the most common type of heating fuel used in a given city can be determined by converting umber of B. t. u.'s into the quantities of the type of fuel used. |