Thanks for your input. This site is interesting for cost of living rank: http://xpatulator.com/ but it's not personalized. For instance, clothing wouldn't factor into my lifestyle costs but personal care would. They charge $99 USD for a personalized assessment to show what the cost of living comparison would be between where I currently live, New York City, to Doha, where I hope to live. Kind of steep price.
I was curious to the median income for two reasons: one was because my impression of Doha during my visit was that it's a very rich city- yet I know that unskilled laborers get paid very poorly compared to the west, that they make more compared to their origin country in the east BUT that extra money comes at a cost: quality of living while in Qatar.
$46 K in the U.S. , specifically in New York State isn't bad for a young and healthy family of three in Niagra Falls, NY but it's a struggle for a single person living alone in New York City. The poverty line in the US is somewhere around $14K/household on average, but in NYC, it's $37K- huge difference (and NYC is more realistic- on paper it's similar to the national average, but in real life, $14K is suffering level, even with government financial aid).
Regarding equal opportunity- it exists as quotas in the US, but where I currently work, the white Jewish guy with a Bachelors in Science was earning more than the Christian Black girl in my office who has a Masters in Community Health and has 3-4 more years experience than him. Her job performance outshined his. The organization's infrastructure is run by Jews, but the office administration is run by Christians, the latter are the ones who would determine salary and raises but they answer to the former. Clearly there is discrimination involved.
She left but when they replaced her with a black girl who had minimal experience over a Jewish girl who fit the job description perfectly- again, there was job discrimination. I'm sure they were awful to the black girl because of her race, yet they hired a black girl in her place so that they won't be accused of racism.
Equal opportunity employment only exists if all equal candidates name's were thrown in a hat and picked at random. Bias if a fact of life in a lot of circumstances. But that's just my opinion.
Thanks for your input. This site is interesting for cost of living rank: http://xpatulator.com/ but it's not personalized. For instance, clothing wouldn't factor into my lifestyle costs but personal care would. They charge $99 USD for a personalized assessment to show what the cost of living comparison would be between where I currently live, New York City, to Doha, where I hope to live. Kind of steep price.
I was curious to the median income for two reasons: one was because my impression of Doha during my visit was that it's a very rich city- yet I know that unskilled laborers get paid very poorly compared to the west, that they make more compared to their origin country in the east BUT that extra money comes at a cost: quality of living while in Qatar.
$46 K in the U.S. , specifically in New York State isn't bad for a young and healthy family of three in Niagra Falls, NY but it's a struggle for a single person living alone in New York City. The poverty line in the US is somewhere around $14K/household on average, but in NYC, it's $37K- huge difference (and NYC is more realistic- on paper it's similar to the national average, but in real life, $14K is suffering level, even with government financial aid).
Regarding equal opportunity- it exists as quotas in the US, but where I currently work, the white Jewish guy with a Bachelors in Science was earning more than the Christian Black girl in my office who has a Masters in Community Health and has 3-4 more years experience than him. Her job performance outshined his. The organization's infrastructure is run by Jews, but the office administration is run by Christians, the latter are the ones who would determine salary and raises but they answer to the former. Clearly there is discrimination involved.
She left but when they replaced her with a black girl who had minimal experience over a Jewish girl who fit the job description perfectly- again, there was job discrimination. I'm sure they were awful to the black girl because of her race, yet they hired a black girl in her place so that they won't be accused of racism.
Equal opportunity employment only exists if all equal candidates name's were thrown in a hat and picked at random. Bias if a fact of life in a lot of circumstances. But that's just my opinion.