Follow the Money: The Best and Worst Places to Work by Average Salary
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These are remarkably interesting stats. I found quite a few of the results to be real shockers. I had no idea there was such a need for Social Workers in Newark, N.J. …
That’s useless information unless you also include the cost of living in the places you show!
This piece fails to take into account a key factor – cost of living. I bet $21,000 per year in Lincoln, NE feels like more than $70,000 in DC. It surprises me that Mint would put this up without any sort of meaningful analysis.
Wow, you nobs get paid peanuts over there!
It would be nice to see these numbers normalized with the cost of living in each city. A two bedroom house in Spring Green, WI costs around 70,000. Can you touch a house for that in Washington D.C. or San Francisco is what? Cost of living is much much higher on the east and west cost.
Where are the finance and business jobs?
I found it, I didn’t notice there were more than 1 page
What a great insight. Thanks for sharing. It appears that if you want to make a lot of money, go where there’s a lot of competition. You’re competitors actually help you. If you’re a journalist, live where there’s a lot of reporting going on. If you’re a graphic designer live where there’s a lot of tech thought leaders. If you’re a creative (writer, producer, director) go where there everybody is one.
Same would hold true for a business. For example a printing business and all of it’s ancilliary busineses (bindery, die casters, mailing houses, etc) make more money when zoning encourages all printers to be in a single block.
Idaho Falls is in Idaho not Indiana.
Nice! Lots of money out there for all to make.
This is a great motivator for us in entertainment but it’s kind of misleading… how many actor/writer/director/producers are actually waiters, dog walkers, etc. when they’re not working? Check out http://copyandcredit.blogspot.com for tips on breaking into the biz … without going broke
I agree with John, Cost of living is actually much much higher on the east and west cost… These factors should also be listed… which would further deepen the interest in this Survey..
and will make it more realisitic…
DHL in East Rutherford NJ .I think this is the worst place; overnight shift job ;sorting heavy mail and been pressured ;lifting sack and working like a donkey and they cut the break for the laborer while they pass thru with a cup of coffee in their hand smiling from others reality ?sometimes they do not pay you overtime they forget . MTs Rutherford place where fu—— managers and supervisors treat you like a piece of shit ;this is really the freedom in America .
Fu——- slavers .
If you want to look at differences in cost of living: http://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator
Interesting breakdown but the cost of living near the big cites on the east coast & west coast are allot higher than living a town in middle America so the salaries go along with the cost of living the certain areas.
Those salary difference are very huge indeed but what about the living condition. Is it a upscale one as well. When moving from state to state seeking high salary one should also consider the pressure of the work and the community surrounding it. Some times it is better to be comfortable with one earns and if not then supplement it with passive income.
Photoshop does not have spell check.. idiot.