Note 10 — Chapter VI · HAMADAN.
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This system accounts partly for the apparently very low wages paid to the Persian servant, which are (I give those paid latterly—1881—by myself; in the case of head-servants it is sometimes, but very seldom, more, as the pay is of course nothing to the modakel):—
A month. £ s. d.
A nazir or steward 50 kerans, or 2 0 0
A good cook 50 ” 2 0 0
A good peishkhidmut (personal servant, waits at table, and valets one, and is expected to dress well) 40 to 50 kerans, or 30s. to 2 0 0
A farrash, i. e. sweeper or message runner 25 kerans, or 1 0 0
A sherbet-dar, plate-cleaner, maker of coffee, ices, etc. 25 ” 1 0 0
A second farrash 20 ” 0 16 0
A third farrash 15 ” 0 12 0
A cook’s disciple, or scullery man 10 ” 0 7 6
A washerman, or woman who can wash and iron thoroughly 35 ” 1 6 0
A woman-servant or nurse 25 ” 1 0 0
A head-groom 30 ” 1 5 0
An under-groom 20 ” 0 16 0