Weekly wage in 1922 London

[CanadianJohn]

I'm reading a novel set in London in 1922. An impoverished widow, house-rich, cash-poor, who is forever worrying about spending sixpence here and there, and how to pay the coal man.

However, there is no mention of income at all, except she is astounded that a neighbour, who had just been promoted, is now earning £200 a year.

As far as I can tell, googling here and there, a decent wage for a working man might have been £2 10s -- £3 a week, or about £120 - £150 a year. Does that sound about right?

Lots of rates for different professions on the tables here, even gives you the average price of 1lb of ribs!

escoe-website.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/26172415/The-Ministry-of-Labour-Gazette-Oct-1922.pdf

This suggests the average salary was around £140 in London but doesn’t give any details, I’ve just spent ages going through my childhood years.
www.hillarys.co.uk/back-in-my-day/

Thanks for your prompt reply... I may have bumped into the MoL gazette in my search, but found it hard to read and it didn't give me the one-syllable-words reply I was hoping for.

The hilarys website is excellent for my purpose, the kind of thing I was looking for.

One of the remarkable things about the book, for me, is the depiction of the widow (maybe 55) not even considering that she might find work and earn a little money.

I'm not sure there were a lot of jobs available for women at that time in London/England. For instance, most clerical jobs would have still been done by men. A 55-year-old would not be an attractive prospect for domestic work or factory work as younger, stronger women would be available. The second world war changed things a lot for women. When my father got a job after that war (London), he was paid £5 a week until about 1958, when he became self-employed in same job and could earn more. During that time he was the sole earner for the family (wife and 3 children).