Crude Salary Comparison

I've been busy this week - Baruch Hashem life is great. Work is terrific. I finished reading "The Happiness Hypothesis" (thank you A. Gruenspecht for that going away present), I will most likely have some things to say about the book in the future. Parts were very interesting.

A friend from YU (E. Figdor), who gave me all the advice I needed for my move (and more), is over for shabbos so that should be fun.

Since it was a slow post week I decided to leave you with some food for thought on salary comparisons between US and Israel. It looks like social workers can't use that 'ole parnassa excuse anymore. (www.tayku.com). Teachers salaries will most likely come up in the near future, and American doctor salaries will most likely go down in the USA (especially if Hillary is elected.)


Israel USA
NIS USD USD Variance
Teacher 7202 28447 44700 -36%
Doctor 18695 73845 199000 -63%
Engineer 13082 51673 85803 -40%
Soc. Workers 10237 40436 41000 -1%


Shabbat Shalom! (That's what they say here...)

Sources:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/831203.html
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/001737.html
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/on_doctors_sala.html
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5165386&tstart=0
http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_HC07000039.html