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Wages

Based on early-late medieval wages list for England

Profession		Wage
		Day	Week	Month	Annum
Mercenaries	knight banneret	4s	L1 8s	L7	L73
	knight	2s	14s	L3 10s	L36 10s
	man-at-arms or squire	1s	7s	L1 15s	L18 5s
Regular Army	Esquires, constables, and centenars (100)	1s	7s	L1 15s	L18 5s
	Mounted archers, armoured infantry, hobilars (light cavalry), vintenars (20)	6d	3s 6d	17s 6d	L9 2s 6d
	Militia vintenars (20)	4d	2s 4d	11s 8d	L6 1s 8d
	Archers	3d	1s 9d	8s 9d	L4 11s 3d
	Militia	2d	1s 2d	5s 10d	L3 10d
	Captain	8s	L1 9s 2d	L7 6s 1d	L76 3s 5d
	Lieutenant	4s	14s 7d	L3 13s	L38 1s 8d
	Ensign	2s	7s 3d	L1 16s 6d	L19 10d
	Drummer or trumpeter	1s 8d	6s 1d	L1 10s 5d	L15 17s 4d
	cavalryman	1s 6d	5s 5d	L1 7s 4d	L14 5s 7d
	infantry	8d	2s 5d	12s 2d	L6 6s 11d
Crown revenues	At Peace	L82 3s 10d	L690 8s 2d	L3452 1s 1d	L36000
Labourer	Semiskilled	<1d	5d	2s 3d	L1 4s
Noble Income	Baronet	10s 11d	L4 12s	L23 3d	L240
	Baron	L1 7s 4d	L11 10s 1d	L57 10s 8d	L600
	Earl	L1 1s 11d	L9 4s 1d	L46 6d	L480
	Duke	L30 2s 8d	L253 3s	L1265 15s	L13200
	Sergeant at Law (top lawyer)	16s 5d	L3 2s 9d	L15 13s 9d	L163 12s 8d
Armourers	Chief	10d	3s 4d	16s 11d	L8 16s 11d
	Others	9d	3s	15s 3d	L7 19s 3d
	Master	1s 3d	4s 11d	L1 4s 8d	L12 17s 8d
	Apprentice	6d	1s 10d	9s 6d	L4 19s 6d
Mason	Master	4d	2s	10s	L5 4s 3d
Carpenter	Master	3d	1s 6d	7s 6d	L3 18s 2d
	Guild incapacitated stipend	2d	1s 2d	5s 10d	L3 10d
Weaver	Guild	5d	1s 11d	9s 8d	L5 1s 4d
Priest	Chantry	3d	1s 3d	6s 3d	L3 5s 10d
Squire	Of Knight	<1d	2d	11d	10s
	Of Knight Bannaret	<1d	3d	1s 5d	15s
Carters, porters, falconer, grooms, messengers	Merchant	<1d	<1d	4d	4s 3d
	Noble	<1d	1d	7d	6s 6d
Kitchen servants	Merchant	<1d	<1d	1d	1s 6d
	Noble	<1d	<1d	3d	3s
Boys and pages	Merchant	<1d	<1d	<1d	9d
	Noble	<1d	1d	5d	4s 6d
Warden	Castle	6d	2s 10d	14s 4d	L7 10s

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