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To: Moominoid who wrote (25275)	11/10/2002 11:26:38 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Yes, I was looking at those numbers too. btw, just to state something. If anyone was offended by my remarks yesterday (about salary), please accept my apology. It was meant as a friendly jibe, not as an insult or intended to offend. I realize this is just a thread and different people in different countries can react other then the intended manner. In the newspaper article, that you have trouble believing, they state the typical wage on qualifing is about £20k. Just below the national average. That translates in being below the USA wage which sounds OK. In Scotland it costs £45 to £60 to have a plumber (corgi approved) to connect your cooker. At the outside it's fifteen minutes work. I am glad I don't live in London. It's amazing what a few extra EEC regulations can do. I have relatives in london who are architects. They tell me that higher figure is often correct for London. Same for brick layers and carpenters too. Also I think some of your numbers are low. In 1988 my immigration lawyer processed my green card for about $1200. I phoned her last week. Her rate is now $400 per hour. I know that includes overhead. Those figures were about right for me in 1995. It does state the base salary too. The other incentives made up more though. Maybe not today. Big squeez on. an earlier post of mine... Message 18141219 You can do that simple sterling to dollar conversion if you like, then refer it to base USA salaries of jet pilots and surgeons, but it still doesn't change the facts as I know them. If you bring home a net wage of (say) $1000 that is hell of a lot of purchasing power in the USA. If you earned the same gross in the UK in pounds. What you end up with is chicken feed by comparison. B-I-G tightening of the belt required. David, I know this. I've done it and have a family too provide for too. FINALLY.... was I a big shot, top of the range , guy in the USA. I was happy with my work their...but no. My last job was a humble shift engineer. One that was good at the bargaining table though. So what does that tell me? $200k+ jobs are not that rare in the USA in reality. I am exrapolating from 1995 plus the knowledge that a company that had 600+ employees also had over 20 directors, vice presidents, and senior executives. They earned less then me??? Pull the other one -lol-

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