Go To Salaries Lists Job Search and Career Assistance (Career Builder) Searches by metropolitan area, job category, salary, and keyword. Select the "target" to conduct a search. Not sure about the size of the database. Relocation - Salary Calculator (Homefair.com) Provides relative income necessary when moving to another city or country. Using What You Know About Co-Workers' Pay (U.S. News) "Websites like Salary.com, Vault.com, and SalaryExpert.com have begun to tear away at the secrecy of salary data, and a new entry into the market aims to pull the cover back a bit more. Glassdoor.com, which launched in beta earlier this month, offers user-submitted salary information specific to positions and employers. The information is free, but available only when users submit their personal salary data or written reviews of their employer. Glassdoor reviews every submission, and its executives say that employers can also contest fictitious data." Materials Cost of Living in Major Cities (Realtor.com) Provides average cost of living in major cities within the United States. 7-03 Minimum Wage Calculator (Economic Policy Institute) Provides an interactive tool to help a person determine the minimum wage for a single person or a couple, with or without children. 7-03 Minimum Wage Calculator (Solfopro.com) Provides an interactive tool to help a person determine the minimum wage for a single person or a couple, with or without children. 7-03 Minimum Wage Calculator for a Family of Four (NCCBUSCC.org) Provides minimum costs for a family of four. Shows that the poverty line, set at $18,100, is below the minimum. 7-03 Papers Defining a "Living Wage" (TomPaine.com) Describes efforts to define and then promote a "living wage" as the minimum that government workers and others should be paid. 7-03 Essay - Defining a "Minimum Wage" (AlterNet.org) "The current minimum wage of $5.15 an hour is lower than the real minimum wage of 1950 ($5.71)." "It would take $8.45 to match the minimum wage peak of 1968 in 2003." "Plenty of employers know how to make a profit without ripping off their employees. In-N-Out Burger ranks first among fast food chains in quality, value and service." "The starting wage is $8.25 an hour, with paid vacations, food at work, and the option of participating in a 401(k) with a company match." 7-03 Men Make More Than Women (CNN News) "Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, said the disparity is in part due to women who interrupt their careers to have kids at a time while men continue to climb the salary ladder. When these mothers return to work, they often can't make up the loss in earnings, she said." "Discrimination also may be a factor, specifically against mothers, Strober added. 'If you are a primary caretaker of children, it's very difficult to live up to the kind of work requirements that exist for professional work,' she said." "Hartmann said stronger enforcement of equal opportunity laws and increasing access to education and training in high-paying fields in which women are underrepresented are keys to income equity." 6-04

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