|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Workers in the Bay Area were the highest paid on average in the nation last year, according to data released Friday, July 23, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The data showed workers in the San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland metropolitan area earned 20 percent more than the national average in 2009, the agency said.
The survey included the nine-county Bay Area, plus Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, in that category, according to bureau economist Todd Johnson. The data showed above-average wages in all of the employment categories surveyed, but particularly among construction jobs, service jobs, sales, office and administrative jobs, and professionals.
Workers in the Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas, metropolitan area on the U.S.-Mexico border were paid the least, earning 79 cents for every dollar earned by workers nationwide, the agency said. Bay Area workers also were the highest paid in 2008, earning 17 percent more than the national average, according to Johnson.
By
By
By
How does this compare to the cost of living?
Not if they are working non-union jobs in the entertainment industry here.
You would never know it considering how we love to use the Day Laborer Center and just love living off the back of illegal immigrants living in squalor along California Ave.
Cost of live index in Mountain View is 160% of the national average.
So does that mean that while salaries in the bay area are 20% above the national average the cost of living in the bay area is 60% above the national average?