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In tho November issue of the Treasury Bulletin for Industry there was an article about the increase in salary carnors, the main points of which wore: "In compiling its statistics, the Ministry of Labour uses tha term 'sal-ry oarnor' to connoteanyone employod on administrative, technical, clerical or similar work. In this special sense, the distincticn between the wage earner and the .salary earner is that betwoon the manmial worker and the non-manual worker (with shop assistants counted as wage earners), not that between the weekly pati and ths monthly paid employee - though probably tho majority of salary earnors aro paid monthly, Tha rapid rise in tho mmber of salary carners roflects a shift from manual to clerical, administrative and technicalwork within tho labour force."
Although the number of salary carners in mamfacturing rese ovary year botwoen 1952 and 1962, after 1955 the numbor of wage earners fell evary year with the exception of rises in 1960 and 1961,
Last year there were 100,000fewer wage earners in mamufacturing than in 1961, tut thera was on increaso of 30,000 salary carners. The inecreaso of saloriod employees reflocts both the upgrading of many mamial jobs and the rapid growth of many sectors of the aconomy, particularly sorvice industries such as bankingand finance, insurance, in which administrative, technical and clerical jobs are predominant.
Income from salaries is now nearly two thirds the size of income fron wages. In 1955 it was only half as large. Tho salary proportion varios in different sectors of industryand is, for example, 60% of ‘he; size of the wago bill for manual workersin gas, slectricity ond water, and 11% in mining and quarrying.
Quoting the Ministry of Labour, the Tulletin says that the avernge woekly salary for all melos in manufacturing in October 1962, was £21 5s 7d. Between 1955 we 1962average salary earnings rose by 47.7%, while average wages rose