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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important, though seldom discussed, is the manufacturing ratio between a day's pay and a day's work. Last week Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., discussed piecework versus timework payment, said that ''modifications of the piece rate system" had been introduced in General Electric plants. Figures on num-ber of employes, total salaries and total sales showed that in 1928 General Electric Co. had paid an average of 73,526 employes $134,056,000 and had received orders for $348,848,512 of C. E. products. The average employe therefore was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Production to Pay | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Therefore, for every dollar spent in wages, General Electric Co. realized $2.61 in sales. The following table shows the same ratio for four of the last 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Production to Pay | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Employes Payroll Orders Rec'd 1914 46,415 $37,410,490 $83,748,521 1919 70,982 90,927,942 237,623,932 1924 70,570 117,710,760 283,107,697 1928 73,526 134,056,000 348,848,512 Average Salary Average Production Ratio of Production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Production to Pay | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...average ratio of earnings to quotations for the 20 stocks listed was 16.66X, or 1.66X over the theoretical 15X figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 16.66X | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Atlas Powder Co. paid an actual dividend of $20.27, the difference accruing from the sale of holdings in Canadian Industries, Ltd. The $6.30 figure denotes profit from operations alone. **Ward Class "B" Common paid $.71 a share with a high for the year of 241⅝ making a ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 16.66X | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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