Bartenders...$6 to 20 per week.
Range of salaries for various trades in 1889, taken from the 1890 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac. All wages weekly except where otherwise noted.
- Bakers…$18-25
- Barbers…$9-13
- Bartenders…$6-20
- Brewery Employees…$15-18
- Bricklayers…$15-30
- Butchers’ Employees…$9-13.50
- Carpenters…$15-19.50
- Cart Drivers…$10-12
- Cellar Diggers…$12-15
- Cemetery Laborers…15¢ per hour
- Chewing Gum Makers…$4-21
- Cigar Makers…$9-20
- Clock Makers…$15-18
- Coffee Handlers…$10.50-12
- Firemen…$2-2.50 (per diem)
- Fur Workers…$6-8 (girls), $10-12 (men)
- Glass Workers…$16-20
- Grave Diggers…16¢ per hour
- Hatters…$15-20
- Horseshoers…$18-21
- Iron Workers…$18-21
- Leather Workers…$18.50-21
- Longshoremen…30-45¢ per hour
- Locksmiths…$18-19.50
- Lumber Handlers…$10.50-12
- Marble Cutters…$21
- Musicians…$17-30
- Painters…$16.50-18
- Steamboat Pilots…$125
- Plasterers…$24
- Plumbers…$16.50-21
- Printers…$18
- Railroad Employees…$10.50-14
- Roofers…$12-21
- Shoemakers…$6-18
- Soap Makers…$12-25
- Stair Builders…$19.50
- Stone Masons…$23
- Straw Workers…$3-12
- Tin Can Makers…$18-20
- Truck Drivers…$12-13
- Varnishers…$12-15
- Waiters…$10-13