melrich Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 What is it? I'm not looking for a discussion of average vs median. Just simply what is the average annual wage in your country? If you can convert to USD that is great. Here in Oz at February 2008 it is $55,600 which is US$50,400. Link to comment
StretchGee Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 http://www.bls.gov shows US $39,190 for 2006. A fortune in the Midwest - poverty in New York City. Link to comment
annie24 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 where i live, the minimum wage is $6.50 per hour, so assuming you work 40 hours a week for 50 weeks of the year, that comes out to a salary of ..... $13,000 yikes. that's below the poverty line. Link to comment
Kiwi_Sweet Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 here in us about 35-45,000 we're broke Link to comment
renaissancewoman101 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Minimum wage out here in CA is $8/hr, but the cost of living out here is sky high!!! I think the average salary out here is around 40K, not sure. Link to comment
Alezia Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I would say $55,000 sounds right for Canada I don't think it's that high... I think it's more around 35K. That would place the average income over 100K per family Link to comment
RayKay Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I don't know as data tends to show average wages/salaries per sector rather than "overall". I saw something that said the average for all was around $20 CDN/HR.....with males being almost $3 above females overall. Minimum wage in my province is about $7/hour though, so obviously some are making quite a lot less than that average; which shows in Canada's abysmal child poverty rates and the like (1 in 5 to 1 in 6 children live in poverty in Canada, and it is usually not as parents are not working either...). And those stats do NOT include those living on reserves where the child poverty rate is more like 1 in 2. Here is a table of average salaries/wages in Canada by sector. link removed Link to comment
rocio Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 The average income of a single Canadian, before tax, is just under $35,000. The average per household is around $75,000, I believe. (canadian and american dollar are about par right now, but normally the american dollar is worth more.) Link to comment
RayKay Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Oh...here, this one is much better though it is "after taxes": link removed A "non elderly male" earner has about $33,000 average and a "non elderly female" earner is just over $28,000 average. The average for all unattached individuals (so elderly, not elderly) after tax is $27,000. Link to comment
melrich Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 i'm moving down under! Annual average is an interesting number but probably does not tell you a whole lot until you also know what money buys. I know food, clothes and lots of consumer goods are far cheaper in the US than here. I don't know about Canada so much. Also our annual average is probably a touch inflated by the resources boom and the huge money being paid to people working in the mines and related areas. Link to comment
rocio Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 How much do you pay to fill up a tank of gas? How much do you pay for a week's worth of groceries for 1 person? ...on average. I'm very curious. Link to comment
HellFrost666 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I've heard 25k or so where I live. Pathetic. Link to comment
melrich Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Well petrol here is hovering around $1.40 per litre (sorry not good at converting to gallons). So most cars average about a 60 litre tank so somewhere around $80 per fill. Groceries for one person, hard for me cos I always buy for 4. Give you an idea, 2 litres of milk would be $4, a loaf of bread around $2.50, tub of margarine about $1.50, fillet steak about $24 per kilogram (about 2.2 Lbs), kilo of bananas about $3. Link to comment
rocio Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 sounds like gas is more expensive but that's about what we pay for groceries. yep, i want to move down there. plus you don't have to buy winter boots and pay a fortune to heat your houses in winter. brrrr.. Link to comment
RayKay Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 sounds like gas is more expensive but that's about what we pay for groceries. yep, i want to move down there. plus you don't have to buy winter boots and pay a fortune to heat your houses in winter. brrrr.. No kidding. Our monthly heating bill is $200-250/month (older bungalow, needs insulation upgrade) ...and don't forget we have LONG winters here (our heat is on about half the year). Can't wait until we put in that heat pump (my partner works in geothermal engineering so it is cheap for us to do overall). Link to comment
melrich Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 yep, i want to move down there. plus you don't have to buy winter boots and pay a fortune to heat your houses in winter. brrrr..LOL...but you have to run aircon about 6 months of the year!! Link to comment
RayKay Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 LOL...but you have to run aircon about 6 months of the year!! We run our air conditioning the other 6 months of the year (it is a lot cheaper than the heating though....)! Well, I lie. Generally we get 4-6 weeks total per year (at beginning of spring and tail end of summer) where we can get away without running either the AC or the heat.... Manitoba...a place of extremes. Our low today was -36C. In summer we get into the 30's (I know Oz can be hotter though...but 30C is still air conditioning worthy!). Link to comment
doyathink Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 A gallon of gas costs $2.70 here. Minimum wages is $2.50 an hour! BUT, the government minimum wage is higher, so the state has to go by that....and it's $5.35 an hour. You can buy a really nice home here for 50K tho. lol My last month heating bill is $300.00. It costs a lot to heat your home here. Link to comment
melrich Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 In summer we get into the 30's (I know Oz can be hotter though...but 30C is still air conditioning worthy!). LOL....30s?...we are just starting to take our sweaters off!! Link to comment
melrich Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 You can buy a really nice home here for 50K tho. lol Wow, where is that? Link to comment
RayKay Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 LOL....30s?...we are just starting to take our sweaters off!! I know. I remember when I was down there we toured Cooper Pedy (sp?). For those that don't know, almost the entire town there is build underground (quite amazing...and there is a good chance of becoming rich as you dig a new pantry and find opals As the tour guide pointed out, one time during a heat wave of something like 50C, it dropped to 35C one day and everyone put their jumpers on... Link to comment
rocio Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 dude, it's cheap on venus. Link to comment
watupgangsta Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 i just looked online and in my town the mean family income is $200,000 Link to comment
rocio Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 i just looked online and in my town the mean family income is $200,000 Wow, it's gotta suck to be that guy trying to support his family on a custodian's salary. Link to comment
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