The same efficiency, or lack of efficiency, in a factory or department store would be worth about ten dollars a month, without board.

The wages of a competent houseworker, in any part of the country, average over eighteen dollars a month.

Add to this about thirty dollars a month represented by food, lodging, light, and fire, and you will see that the competent houseworker's yearly income amounts to five hundred and seventy-six dollars.

This is a higher average than the school-teacher or the stenographer receives; it is almost double the average wage of the shop girl, or the factory girl.

It is, in fact, about as high as the usual income of the American workingman.
It is true that the social position of the domestic worker is lower than that of the teacher, stenographer, or factory worker.