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[fivemack]

I'd have asked this on rasff, but I fear it would turn into politics, and rasff needs more politics like it needs more holes in its head.

How would I go about finding out

• An average salary for a PhD-educated engineer in a big industrial city in mainland China (say, Shenyang; but basically "not Shanghai, not Beijing")
  
• The average price of a one-room flat in such a city?
  

My most optimistic economic model for the future has the average salary for a skilled worker pretty much uniform from Johannesburg to Punta Arenas, from Vancouver to Fuzhou; and, given the shape of the world's skilled-worker population, that uniform salary would be not much more than the contemporary value in China. But I've not a clue what the standard of living of my Chinese counterpart would be, so am asking broadly here for enlightenment.

Comments

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I used to work part time at a university institution which provides MBAs to students (many with PhDs, mostly from overseas, many from China). I was in a position to see their pre-MBA salaries. I think a typical wage for the type of person you describe, converted to UKP, might be about £5000-10000 p.a., depending more specifically on good fortune, gender, and the company worked for. (The price of one-room flats in such an area I have no idea about, though.)

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

This
http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/forumpost.shtml?toppid=41006
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/19/content_435315.htm

suggests that such info could be found on that site.

This, while slightly out of date, may be useful
http://www.albany.edu/~yhuang/Huang_ARoomOfOnesOwn.pdf


Also part way down the page
http://www.nightlybusiness.org/transcript/2004/transcript080404.html

This is Beijing, but it is current pricing
http://www.wuwoo.com/apartment_brow.asp?ln=en