From 25 cents to 200 kronor per hour – Swedish Dagbladet

Since then much has happened …

– One good real wage increases over time, reduced wage differentials and also reduce disparities between men and women, says Professor Christer Lundh at University of Gothenburg as a project gathered all available historical wage statistics in one place, open to everyone but especially for researchers.

Some strikes the statistics show that a peasant maid in 1869 could earn 43 dollars a year, in the master Diet as it was called then. A farmhand had a little more than double.

An industrial , a male one, had between 1914 and 1990, has gone from 40 cents per hour to 87 crowns. Today, a construction worker earning SEK 200 per hour. When the women began to be recorded in industrial statistics in the early 1920s, they had about 60 percent of men’s wages. In 1990 the gap had shrunk and the figure was 89 percent.

But much else has of course also happened. We have shorter hours and inflation has understood the crucial importance for understanding wage developments over such a long time, and the taxes have changed radically.

Between 1914 and 1990, had cost of living index, a variation on To measure price changes, increased by 30 times. The male industrial workers wages rose during the same period by about 200 times.