For example, the British Marxists Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1913-14 male clerks earned 122% of the average manual wage, but by 1971 this had fallen to just 96%.

In 1882 a clerk at a Ministry earned 1500-2000 frcs per year.

Letter carriers and clerks earn from $24,000 to $31,500 a year, and an additional $8,500 in benefits.

In contrast, a civil service janitor or clerk earns about $20,000 a year, and a civil service painter, $40,000.

Most clerks and carriers earn a maximum of $31,516.

Thus some former clerks, in their first year practicing law, will earn twice as much as their former judicial bosses (the chief justice earns $212,000 a year; his colleagues earn $203,000 each).

A runner earned about a quarter of what a clerk earned; Benito couldn't pay it.

What you may decently expect, if you have some talent and much industry, is such an income as a clerk will earn with a tenth or perhaps a twentieth of your nervous output.

Local clerks, scribes, innkeepers, brewers, and even townspeople providing accommodation and letting shops and cellars earned a lot.

Chandler had discovered that fictitious clerks were earning money and that other clerks were earning money without performing services.