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- From: fierro@uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro)
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- Subject: Re: jobs, again
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 03:15:09 GMT
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- In article <37651@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- >On the subject of where someone should find a job, consider this:
- >
- >If the economy were allowed to flourish without the government pulling
- >massive amounts of capital from it, or passing stupid laws like the minimum
- >wage law, or giving unions the power to push up nominal wage rates,
- >there would be plenty of jobs for those who needed them. Also, where
- >did all the workers displaced from the horse-and-buggy industries find
- >more jobs? The jobs would be out there is we had a free market.
- >
- >Personally, I would advise college freshman to major in some computer
- >related field (like me.)
- >
- >Jim Hranicky (jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu)
-
-
- Refer to the Oct. 26th 1992 issue of U.S. News and World Report for their
- analysis of the best jobs for the future. They do a good analysis both by
- salary and region, and they list regional average salaries by profession and
- experience. There are a few parts I disagree with but overall it's a good
- piece. I'm not going to type in the whole article but here is the opening
- part:
-
- % Salary Survey
- % How much you make may depend quite heavily on where you choose to live
- %
- % Anyone still hoping that the pay picture can only get brighter? Better
- %face it- fat raises are not yet on the agenda. Workers at 9 percent of the
- %organizations surveyed by the Wyatt Co, a compensation and benefits consulting
- %firm in New York, can expect no raise this year; about 9 percent of companies
- %plan to freeze wages in 1993 as well. Average teachers' salaries rose only
- %3.6 percent during the 1991-1992 school year, their smallest increase in 27
- %years, according to the American Federation of Teachers. Physical therapists,
- %pharmacists and nurses, by contrast, enjoyed raises of up to 7.3 percent.
- %Across the board, salaries rose 5 percent in 1992, barely beating inflation.
- %According to Wyatt, which has provided U.S. News with the data used in the
- %exclusive salary survey that follows, planned raises for 1993 average 4.8
- %percent.
- %
- % While your earnings potential depends mostly on which trade you ply, it can
- %also vary significantly with where you choose to ply it. The U.S. News survey
- %looks at what 20 jobs pay, on average, at the entry, senior and manager
- %levels in five regions of the country. (Wyatt does not track doctors' or
- %teachers' salaries; those come from the Hay Group, a compensation consulting
- %firm, from the AFT.) Teachers might target Connecticut, where average pay
- %runs $47,500 a year, more than twice the $23,300 average in South Dakota.
- %Pathologists fare best in the Southeast, where a relative scarcity of managed
- %health care programs such as health maintenance organizations means doctors
- %are freer to set their fees. In the Northeast, where companies have embraced
- %managed care, participating doctors typically are limited in what they can
- %charge.
- %
- % Since pay is not always an indicator of job security- witness all the
- %handsomely paid aerospace engineers scrubbed by defense cutbacks- U.S. News
- %has also profiled "hot tracks" in 20 professions, identified through interviews
- %with human-resource pros and market-watchers at professional associations.
- %People interested in consulting might consider outplacement, where revenues
- %have risen from $50 million in 1980 to $650 million last year. Budding
- %engineers may want to consider civil engineering, given the looming need for
- %an overhaul of much of the country's infrastructure. Salary information is
- %included, as are training requirements and suggestions about the best places
- %to start hunting.
- %
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- Doug Fierro
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