Incomes of Ten Year Alumni

Following the example of the Class of '99, the Class of 1900 at their ten year reunion dinner wrote out on unsigned slips of paper their earned incomes, entirely exclusive of sums derived from investments, during the preceding year, and dropped these slips into, a box. A compilation of the statistics thus provided shows for 76 men average annual earnings of $2620. How fulls this average would hold for the entire class of something over one hundred" men, it would be difficult to judge. As a general proposition, it would seem fair to assume that those present at the reunion would be those best able to stand the expense of the occasion. If this is so, then the average would appear rather high. The rather unusual showing, too, of a few individuals helps to swell the figures considerably. More than half of the seventy-six men are jogging along on $2000 or less per year; while the largest group, nine in all, registers $1800. The complete figures follow:

1 of $ 780 2 of $2400 1 of 900 4 of 2500 2 of 1000 1 of 2600 2 of 1050 1 of 2750 1 of 1100 1 of 2800 8 of 1200 6 of 3000 1 of 1250 1 of 3100 1 of 1300 1 of 3200 1 of 1400 4 of 3500 1 of 1450 2 of 4000 5 of 1500 2 of 4200 1 of 1600 1 of 5000 1 of 1650 1 of 5300 1 of 1700 2 of 6500 9 of 1800 2 of 7000 6 of 2000 1 of 7500 1 of 2100 1 of 12000 Total 76. Average $2620.