The best chance of finding a high-paying job locally may be in Schenectady County.
That's the county with the highest average weekly wage, according to new figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Workers there averaged $959 a week, or nearly $50,000 a year, according to the report issued Thursday. Workers in second-place Albany County, by comparison, averaged $912 a week, or a little more than $47,000 a year.
While both figures are below the statewide average of $1,078 a week, they topped the national average of $865.
Wages crept up a barely perceptible 0.44 percent in Albany County, or about $4 a week, from a year earlier. In Schenectady County, they rose a more robust 4.6 percent, or $42 a week.
The current data are from the second quarter of 2010, the most recent figures available.
Workers whose jobs are in Rensselaer, Saratoga and Schenectady counties weren't as prosperous, on average.
Are these stats including both private and public jobs?
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Workers there averaged $959 a week, or nearly $50,000 a year,
What percentage of the total working class is paid $50K/year?
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THis is countywide. So, you figure Niskayuna where people I think have good incomes, ditto much of Glenville I'm sure, then the overpaid teachers on the city dole, and the cops doing all the OT, and then there's the high paid pension padders, and then you have the millionaires downtown. And then, since the millionaires pretty much don't pay any taxes. Well
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
it's the value of the money at hand.....one could have $500/week and if the value is good live well......but considering the taxes and the cost of living it really isn't great at all....and are they talking gross income?
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