On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:45:28 -0800 (PST), John Kane
> wrote:

>On Jan 15, 3:35 pm, "Felice" > wrote:
>> "Puester" > wrote in message

>> Also interesting: the 1920 Census says the national average income was about
>> $1,500 a year. Somebody else can do the "how many hours for a can of soup"
>> calculation!
>>
>> Felice
>
>Well with some very rough assumptions.
>Working weeks <- 50
>Working days in a week <- 6
>Working hours in a day <- 10
>Income <- $1500
>
>Hourly wage= Income/(Weeks*Days*Hours)
>= $0.50
>
>So it should only take less than 15 minutes work to buy a can of
>soup.
>
>It would probably take about 6-8 minutes at minumum wage to buy a can
>of soup in Ontario today.

Not questioning your math, but I wonder if how many wage workers back
then got 2 weeks vacation back then?