23-country study on workers' attitudes to work and work life

Walter, I'm not sure there's any way you can know this, but do you think there's a typo in the study in that, specifically for the US wages, the average figure is given in pounds instead of dollars?

42,000 pounds would be almost $84,000 dollars. That's higher than any figure for average income I've ever seen referenced in the US.

edited to say that I just looked and I was thinking of median rather than average. Median income is around $43,000 dollars and while I couldn't find a recent figure on average income, I did find one from several years ago that put it at $70,000 and as all the articles I read said that the average American income has gone up, I guess the study makes sense at pounds rather than dollars.

Nevermind...

Hmm, it's average ... thus the relatively low weekly working hours (= including part time workers).

Yes, but the average salary in the United States is more like $ 38,000.

http://www.bls.gov/cew/state2002.txt

I could imagine that 'average' here reflects the average income of the interviewed - though I neither read the full survey nor do intend to buy it :wink:

i'm surprised to see average hours worked for the U.S. = 39.6 and for canada = 31.9 .
the OECD stats show the U.S. = 34.9 , canada = 34.2 (divided the annual hours by 52)
(latest figures for 2002)
those discrepancies seem rather large to me .

there are all kinds of surveys isued almost on a daily basis : most happy people , most unhappy people ... and the one i picked up today (and posted under : deutsch anyone ?) "the smartest german men live in HAMBURG !!! " of course i fully agree with those statistical findings ,
after all i worked out those average hours shown above by myself
hbg


OECD - LABOUR STATISTICS

average canadian hours per week is 31.9



i'm doing the work of two canadians, no wonder i'm always so tired

<insert sleepy smiley here>

i realize that we like to take it EASY in canada ...
but not that easy imo
hbg

When did 'whinger' become part of global parlance?