Wisconsin jobs: More fishy numbers as highest paying industries hire but wages fall
http://www.jsonline.com/business/highpaying-industries-hire-but-wages-fall-in-wisconsin-u95kr92-156819305.html
So Walker's masters are getting their way: lower pay, fewer benefits.
This sounds good: The 23,000-odd jobs Wisconsin added last year, on balance, were heavily concentrated in high-wage industries.
And not so good: From December 2010 to December 2011, the average weekly wage in Wisconsin declined.
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The biggest employment gain by far - 7,002 jobs - came in the "Unclassified" sector. That catchall category also saw a whopping 36% drop in its average wage.
"Very peculiar," Freeman said. " . . . It makes no sense that wages fell by one-third."
If you can get past the Urinal/Sentinel pimping Walker's "more precise" job numbers, the article includes some unsettling information regarding jobs and pay. In this case, the "Freeman" mentioned above is Richard Freeman, a Harvard economics professor who reviewed the Wisconsin numbers. His other comment regarding the dropping wages: "... it is not normal to see such a strong pattern,"