Seasoned reporters earn about $45,000 a year, double the average industrial wage.
These products sell for the equivalent of $1 in a country where industrial wages run $150 a month or less.
They often come from countries where the average industrial wage is still very low, such as the Philippines or India.
On the contrary, demand theory claims working class women changed occupations due to high industrial wages.
The average industrial wage is more than $100 a month, despite the ruble's drop in value against the dollar.
But pay is good on the factory floor: 400,000 rubles ($230) a month, three or four times the average industrial wage.
During this same period, industrial wages increased by 4.9 percent annually.
As industrial wages reached new lows in 1948, the workers found themselves left on their own.
It is above the average industrial wage and is extremely generous.
In 1908 the average hourly industrial wage was 21 cents.