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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (689659)12/23/2012 3:22:49 PM
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Not so fast. Most of the Right to Work states are in the South and the West. And most of those states were and still are, low wage states to begin with. But, that is changing because those states want to, and have been, attracting more high wage, usually tech jobs. Now those employees have a national market for their skills. The difference in regional wages is not as wide as it was prior to the 1990s. Especially in the larger cities.

When I started as a software developer, low $20s was very common unless you worked in RPG IV. Now, I can easily exceed $100k. If it had just followed inflation, it would be closer to $55k a year. Other studies, which adjust for factors like that show a small decline or, at best no correlation at all.
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