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Question:The annual earnings of nonfarm employees in 1900 was $483 per year.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The annual earnings of nonfarm employees in 1900 was $483 per year.

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http://www.econlib.org/Library/Enc/Wages...

The Jungle (1906) is a novel written by American author and socialist Upton Sinclair. chapter 1

"...statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour"

Dick... they made dick, that is why the entire family had to work to make ends meet.