16.1. Wages in Non-Agricultural Occupations https://history.pictures/2020/03/24/16-1-wages-in-non-agricultural-occupations/
16.2. Living Costs for Non-Agricultural Occupations https://history.pictures/2020/03/24/16-2-living-costs-for-non-agricultural-occupations/
16.3. Expenses Indices, Agricultural and Non-Agricultural https://history.pictures/2020/03/24/16-3-expenses-indices-agricultural-and-non-agricultural/
16.4. Movements in Real Wages, Agricultural and Non-Agricultural https://history.pictures/2020/03/24/16-4-movements-in-real-wages-agricultural-and-non-agricultural/
16.5. Wages, Expenses, and Real Wages, for Agricultural plus Non-Agricultural Occupations https://history.pictures/2020/03/24/16-5-wages-expenses-and-real-wages-for-agricultural-plus-non-agricultural-occupations/
16.6. Necessary Corrections https://history.pictures/2020/03/24/16-6-necessary-corrections/
To calculate the average increases in earnings for people with continuous work, we first have to see the number of people per occupation, and their average weekly earnings. The inconvenient point about the following table, is that we should really be working with the division by people as per 1815, which is a medium date; however, there are no useful data about occupations before the Census of 1851.
| Occupation | Number of Persons 1851 | Av. Income (sh./week) 1815 | Total Income (million sh./week) | Per cent of 15 occups. |
| Agricultural labourer | 1,006,000 | 11 | 11.1 | 19.1 % |
| Cotton, calico, manufacture, printing | 501,000 | 12 | 6.0 | 10.4 % |
| Labourer | 376,000 | 15 | 5.6 | 9.6 % |
| Boot and shoe maker | 274,000 | 15 | 4.1 | 7.1 % |
| Milliner, dressmaker, seamstress | 340,000 | 10 | 3.4 | 5.8 % |
| Coal miner | 219,000 | 12 | 2.6 | 4.5 % |
| Carpenter, joiner, mason, bricklayer | 351,000 | 22 | 7.7 | 13.4 % |
| Tailor | 152,000 | 36 | 5.5 | 9.5 % |
| Woollen cloth manufacture | 137,000 | 33 | 4.5 | 7.8 % |
| Silk manufacture | 114,000 | 15 | 1.7 | 2.9 % |
| Worsted manufacture | 104,000 | 15 | 1.6 | 2.8 % |
| Linen, flax manufacture | 98,000 | 12 | 1.2 | 2.1 % |
| Iron manufacture, moulder, founder | 80,000 | 25 | 2.0 | 3.4 % |
| Hose (stocking) manufacturer | 65,000 | 7 | 0.5 | 0.8 % |
| Lace manufacture | 63,000 | 8 | 0.5 | 0.8 % |
| Railways | 55,000 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 % |
| TOTAL | 4,335,000 | 15.0 | 58.0 | 100.0 % |
(Note: for the average nominal earnings per occupation, Feinstein – and thus also Allen – uses the job structure inside each segment as of 1881, and deflates backwards in time.)
In this chapter we will make the necessary calculations for the totality of these non-agricultural occupations, and then add the data from previous chapters with regard to agricultural labourers.
The Industrial Revolution in England was not All Bad 