Hello Stackers, Downloaded the following book The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War Robert C. Allen 1 Nufeld College, Oxford OX1 1NF http://stuff.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/course/14/14.731/papers/greatdivergence.pdf - came across a nice table that displays the daily wages in grams of silver for a Building Craftsman Nominal Wages: Building Craftsmen (Grams of Silver per Day) Antwerp 5.2 10.3 12.6 11.8 11.5 11.5 12.8 20.5 53.1 Amsterdam 4.5 7.0 10.4 11.9 11.7 11.9 12.1 21.4 64.1 London 5.0 6.9 11.3 14.5 14.7 17.8 28.9 48.3 106.4 S. Eng. towns 4.2 5.1 6.1 8.4 10.4 12.6 22.0 39.6 87.1 Florence 5.3 7.5 10.6 15.9 35.2 Milan 10.5 8.0 6.1 5.4 6.2 13.2 45.5 Naples 6.8 5.5 7.8 5.9 5.7 6.6 Valencia 6.5 8.5 10.5 10.3 8.6 7.6 Madrid 6.2 12.5 20.1 15.1 11.6 10.7 16.5 19.2 32.0 Paris 4.4 9.0 10.6 11.0 8.2 9.3 16.4 34.4 76.3 Strasbourg 5.1 5.5 6.1 8.3 4.4 5.5 10.6 11.7 Augsburg 3.5 4.2 5.4 6.5 6.0 5.4 5.8 Leipzig 2.9 3.3 6.8 7.0 6.2 5.0 6.7 22.5 71.9 Munich 4.4 5.0 5.2 4.7 3.8 3.2 74.7 Vienna 4.0 3.9 5.5 5.2 4.8 4.8 3.2 6.6 59.1 Gdansk 2.8 4.7 6.4 7.7 6.7 5.2 8.0 Krakow 3.8 5.2 4.2 4.1 3.3 3.8 5.2 15.9 35.0 Warsaw 3.6 5.6 4.3 5.3 7.4 10.9 20.1 50.1 Lwow 3.0 4.8 5.2 3.9 3.0 4.3 5.8 Hamburg 42.6 89.0 Stockholm 28.4 79. Just click on the link above - the table will look better - it also has other interesting tables and graphs and shows the prices of certain commodities ( meat, wheat, butter, etc ) in grams of silver.
also WAGES, PRICES, AND LIVING STANDARDS IN CHINA, 1738- 1925: IN COMPARISON WITH EUROPE, JAPAN, AND INDIA http://economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk/12301/1/paper316.pdf
