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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2005-05-03 10:08 pm

All Knowledge Is Contained In Livejournal, surely

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.

[identity profile] vyvyan.livejournal.com 2005-05-04 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
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.)