And in many cases in 1900, $7 was a weekly salary -- not daily . . . Could you live on $21.30/week? In any case, straight "inflation indexes" don;t mean too much when applied to individual items, for the same reason that a hard drive or laser printer has gone form $30,000 to less than $100 in a time when gasoline tripled -- but in the aggregate, prices are up only a little. And if you guys keep it up -- I'll reward you with an email essay on the history of anthracite prices <g>. Cheers, Jim Guthrie ELHS #1296 > List, > > I failed to say that the $21.30 hourly pay rate mentioned in my last post > was for the year 2007. So it's not quite current. > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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