Never mind – How about the wages of data entry workers.
Ugh wrong again – I should have got this first Lawyers wage mean, although it is interesting that it is oddly similar to data entry workers.
That’s the correct response– the most important wage statistic available. A nation is only as rich as its lawyers! 🙂
I think it’s interesting to see some very rural areas with high wages. Typically one would expect high-earning lawyers to be in urban areas. Or at least, I would.
Wages (hourly) or annual earnings?
Some of it can be explained by the size of the region (eg, most of Alaska is empty, but the lawyers in the small cities command respectable wages). The Texas Panhandle is illustrative of this point — quite high wages in the small cities there (probably skewed by lawyers specializing in natural resource like oil, gas, and water), and very low outside of the cities. If the Panhandle were lumped into a single region, it would almost certainly appear that there were high-paid rural lawyers. Much of the Great Plains is actually shrinking in terms of population, a process that has reached the point that it’s impossible for professionals in any field to move there and build a practice. Lawyers are probably getting scarce there, and so command relatively high prices.
Another point of possible interest… there appear to be several cases where the state capitals have very low wages, but are surrounded by areas with much higher wages.
Burt, remember that link I put on Twitter a while back about the dearth of lawyers in rural America? Could be related. Here’s the link. Here is something I wrote about it.
What the heck are the divisions used by the map?
Some of those are counties. But some are regions that consist of multiple counties grouped together.
My first thought was congressional districts, but there are a number of states that would be one solid color that aren’t… so it ain’t that.
Per capita income?
Population?
more explicitly population change.
Never mind – How about the wages of data entry workers.
Ugh wrong again – I should have got this first Lawyers wage mean, although it is interesting that it is oddly similar to data entry workers.
That’s the correct response– the most important wage statistic available. A nation is only as rich as its lawyers! 🙂
I think it’s interesting to see some very rural areas with high wages. Typically one would expect high-earning lawyers to be in urban areas. Or at least, I would.
Wages (hourly) or annual earnings?
Some of it can be explained by the size of the region (eg, most of Alaska is empty, but the lawyers in the small cities command respectable wages). The Texas Panhandle is illustrative of this point — quite high wages in the small cities there (probably skewed by lawyers specializing in natural resource like oil, gas, and water), and very low outside of the cities. If the Panhandle were lumped into a single region, it would almost certainly appear that there were high-paid rural lawyers. Much of the Great Plains is actually shrinking in terms of population, a process that has reached the point that it’s impossible for professionals in any field to move there and build a practice. Lawyers are probably getting scarce there, and so command relatively high prices.
Another point of possible interest… there appear to be several cases where the state capitals have very low wages, but are surrounded by areas with much higher wages.
Burt, remember that link I put on Twitter a while back about the dearth of lawyers in rural America? Could be related. Here’s the link. Here is something I wrote about it.
What the heck are the divisions used by the map?
Some of those are counties. But some are regions that consist of multiple counties grouped together.
My first thought was congressional districts, but there are a number of states that would be one solid color that aren’t… so it ain’t that.
I’m guessing the divisions on the map are US Census Metropolitan Statisical Areas (MSAs)
Dammit, I was just about to say that.
Ratio of dollars given to the federal government vs dollars taken.