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To: Road Walker who wrote (2717)	11/4/2007 12:02:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Wages in Florida are not that low. Maybe average, or to put a negative spin on it "mediocre". "At the state level, the average weekly wage in Florida grew 0.7 percent from the third quarter of 2005 to the third quarter of 2006, placing it in the middle of the national ranking at 26" 72.14.209.104 OTOH when the real estate was booming there (it isn't anymore but that doesn't mean assessments have gone down, or at least gone down as much, as the housing market has), mediocre wages may not have covered high housing prices, or other aspects of the rising cost of living very well. ---- Older but more complete data FL is just below the middle in 1995 doe.state.wy.us FL at number 29 is closer in dollar terms to MD at number 9 than it is to South Dakota at number 50.