Re: wages in Moscow

["Philip Cook" <pcook@uidaho.edu>]

Last year the Northwest Policy Center at UW published a report 
"Northwest Job Gap Study: Searching for Work That Pays".  Here's 
a short quote:

"Key findings for Idaho are:...Almost half of all job openings (45 
percent) pay less than the $9.22 an hour living wage for a single 
adult. Three quarters of all job openings (75 percent) pay less than 
$14.22 an hour living wage for a single adult with two children."

The idea of a "living wage" vs. a minimum wage is quite interesting.

The entire report can be found at

http://depts.washington.edu/npcbox/publications.html

Cheers,

Philip Cook