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Your pay depends on where you live in USA

Jul 28

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2009

This should come as a no surprise – your earnings from the same job or occupation can vary significantly, even within the same country. Based on a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, your pay depends on where you live and work in America.

The variations are quite noticeable from city to city. For example, the average pay for a civilian workers in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA metropolitan area was 20 percent above the national average in 2009.

This National Compensation Survey (NCS) study includes 77 different metropolitan areas. The chart below is a pictorial view of the pay relation for some of the cities across USA. In this survey, the term ‘pay’ includes all the wages, salaries, commissions, and production bonuses.


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Employment Picture for US Families

May 30

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USA Employment Characteristics of Families Summary, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Release; May 27, 2010

As the country struggles with high unemployment rate, more and more families are impacted by the current economic downturn. Here are some interesting facts from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Department of Labor) on family level employment in USA:

  • More and more families have at least one of the family member out of work.
  • The share of families with an unemployed member rose from 7.8 percent in 2008 to 12.0 percent in 2009.
  • The proportion of families with an unemployed member in 2009 was at its highest level since the data tracking began in 1994.
  • Of the nation’s 78.4 million families, 80.4 percent had at least one employed member in 2009, down by 1.8 percentage points from 2008.
  • There were 9.4 million families with at least one unemployed member in 2009, up from 6.1 million in 2008. in 2009.

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