Wages and Salaries in the U.S.A.

Wages and Salaries in the U.S.

U.S. GDP PER CAPITA: $41,657, OR $8,488?

The OECD also estimates that GDP per capita for the United States is $41,657. However, this is not at all consistent with the 2000 Current Population Survey from the US Census Bureau which put median "total money income" for ALL American households in 2000 at only $32,264 , at $21,027 for all Black households, and $23,421 for Hispanic households. This is not just wages and salaries, this is ALL money income, which includes welfare and a whole host of social transfer payments from White MEN to all other "minority" groups. If our GDP per capita actually WAS $41,657, and if there are an average of 2.8 members per household, then our median household income OUGHT to have been $116,340, 3.6 TIMES higher than it actually was. By what sleight of hand have our great white leaders misled us and the world about the true state of our sad economic affairs?

Furthermore, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated than 100.2 million full time American workers earned an average of $29,432 in 2000, with White men earning $34,320, which is 28% higher than the $26,728 earned by full time Black men workers and 70% higher than the $20,176 earned by full time Hispanic men workers. This is a total income of less than $3 trillion, which is a GDP per capita for 274 million Americans of only $10,610 per year, ONE FOURTH of the OECD estimate. 20,572,000 of those full time employees were government employees who should not be counted in GDP just as they were not until relatively recently, and just as they are not in countries like Japan. Removing them places our REAL GDP per capita at $8,488. With 2.7 people per household in the US, family (or "household") income is $22,917.

More than half of American Blacks and Hispanics are not in the labor force at all, so their actual contributions to wages and salaries for Black and Hispanic households were less than $13,364 and $10,088, respectively. Social transfer payments from White employees to Black households were ($21,027 - $13,365) $7,662 and to Hispanic households were($23,421 - $10,088) $13,333, a very strong financial disincentive for White employees to produce. What respectable White man wants to work 42 days each year JUST to earn enough to pay JUST the taxes which fund JUST the social transfer payments JUST to Blacks who HATE them? And another 12 days JUST for Hispanics?

Since 2000, major corporations, huge companies, entire industries, our key jobs, have flooded offshore in record numbers and today we'd be LUCKY if per capita incomes are as much as HALF of what they were then. The US Statistical Abstract reports the following comparison for GDP per capita for selected countries:

	2000	2007
Norway	43,921	49,606
United States	39,277	43,267
Netherlands	33,503	36,783
Canada	32,562	36,243
Austria	32,618	36,065
Denmark	31,987	35,213
Sweden	29,364	34,457
Australia	30,022	34,154
Belgium	30,296	33,607
United Kingdom	28,604	33,191
Germany	29,738	32,228
Japan	28,600	31,696
France	28,357	30,724
Italy	27,458	28,434
Spain	24,696	28,079
Korea, South	17,489	23,399

A REAL, HONEST comparison is based on the credible US Census Bureau survey that reported that wages and salaries in the US in 2000 were $29,432 per worker. GDP per capita could not possibly have exceeded $10,610, AND our incomes have DECREASED since this survey was completed. It must also include countries like Qatar, Luxembourg, Kuwait, Brunei, Singapore, and Ireland with per capita incomes MUCH higher than ours:

	2000	2007
Qatar		$87,600
Luxembourg		79,400
Kuwait		55,900
Norway		53,300
Brunei		51,000
Singapore		49,900
Norway	43,921	49,606
Ireland		46,600
United States	39,277	43,267
Iceland		40,400
Switzerland		40,100
Austria		39,300
Netherlands	33,503	36,783
Canada	32,562	36,243
Austria	32,618	36,065
Denmark	31,987	35,213
Sweden	29,364	34,457
Australia	30,022	34,154
Belgium	30,296	33,607
United Kingdom	28,604	33,191
Germany	29,738	32,228
Japan	28,600	31,696
France	28,357	30,724
Italy	27,458	28,434
Spain	24,696	28,079
Korea, South	17,489	23,399
U.S.A ACTUAL incl. government	10,610	9,549
U.S.A ACTUAL excl government	8,488	9,549

Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Luxembourg:

$37,499.20 per person

# 2

Switzerland:

$36,987.60 per person

# 3

Japan:

$35,474.10 per person

# 4

Norway:

$35,053.30 per person

# 5

United States:

$33,070.30 per person

# 6

Denmark:

$30,191.50 per person

# 7

Iceland:

$27,473.80 per person

# 8

Sweden:

$25,105.50 per person

# 9

United Kingdom:

$24,486.70 per person

# 10

Austria:

$23,824.10 per person

# 11

Netherlands:

$23,770.30 per person

# 12

Belgium:

$23,639.50 per person

# 13

Finland:

$23,549.70 per person

# 14

Germany:

$23,534.80 per person

# 15

France:

$22,751.30 per person

# 16

Ireland:

$21,846.50 per person

# 17

Brunei:

$20,823.10 per person

# 18

Canada:

$20,789.50 per person

# 19

Singapore:

$20,066.00 per person

# 20

Italy:

$19,276.10 per person

# 21

Australia:

$19,213.50 per person

# 22

United Arab Emirates:

$19,198.30 per person

# 23

Israel:

$17,046.40 per person

# 24

Kuwait:

$15,992.20 per person

# 25

French Polynesia:

$15,023.50 per person

# 26

Bahamas, The:

$15,019.20 per person

# 27

New Caledonia:

$14,793.00 per person

# 28

Spain:

$14,575.70 per person

# 29

New Zealand:

$12,639.40 per person

# 30

Cyprus:

$12,013.60 per person

# 31

Greece:

$11,342.30 per person

# 32

Puerto Rico:

$10,752.20 per person

ACTUAL U.S. incl. government

$10,610.00 per person

# 33

Bahrain:

$10,527.10 per person

# 34

Portugal:

$10,316.10 per person

# 35

Slovenia:

$9,670.48 per person

# 36

Barbados:

$9,373.50 per person

# 37

Malta:

$9,125.77 per person

# 38

Antigua and Barbuda:

$9,121.25 per person

ACTUAL U.S. ecxl. government

$8,488.00 per person

# 39

Saint Kitts and Nevis:

$7,669.53 per person

# 40

Trinidad and Tobago:

$7,263.99 per person

# 41

Saudi Arabia:

$6,851.39 per person

# 42

Seychelles:

$6,628.55 per person

# 43

Argentina:

$6,575.95 per person

# 44

Palau:

$6,512.14 per person

# 45

Uruguay:

$5,617.49 per person

# 46

Czech Republic:

$5,303.18 per person

# 47

Mexico:

$5,178.76 per person

# 48

Oman:

$4,961.89 per person

# 49

Hungary:

$4,912.72 per person

# 50

Lebanon:

$4,596.19 per person

# 51

Croatia:

$4,429.86 per person

# 52

Chile:

$4,418.94 per person

# 53

Poland:

$4,253.33 per person

# 54

Grenada:

$4,051.06 per person

# 55

Estonia:

$3,956.04 per person

# 56

Costa Rica:

$3,913.18 per person

# 57

Slovakia:

$3,739.12 per person

# 58

Mauritius:

$3,730.45 per person

# 59

Saint Lucia:

$3,721.13 per person

# 60

Dominica:

$3,334.73 per person

# 61

Latvia:

$3,330.97 per person

# 62

Malaysia:

$3,311.76 per person

# 63

Lithuania:

$3,239.50 per person

# 64

Botswana:

$3,201.68 per person

# 65

Panama:

$3,011.20 per person

# 66

Gabon:

$2,861.97 per person

# 67

Brazil:

$2,842.36 per person

# 68

South Africa:

$2,751.22 per person

# 69

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:

$2,698.74 per person

# 70

Jamaica:

$2,652.31 per person

# 71

Belize:

$2,586.68 per person

# 72

Turkey:

$2,397.32 per person

# 73

Dominican Republic:

$2,094.46 per person

# 74

Tunisia:

$1,983.58 per person

# 75

Fiji:

$1,964.59 per person

# 76

Marshall Islands:

$1,944.34 per person

# 77

El Salvador:

$1,943.43 per person

# 78

Colombia:

$1,898.58 per person

# 79

Peru:

$1,869.56 per person

# 80

Thailand:

$1,838.41 per person

# 81

Bulgaria:

$1,777.28 per person

# 82

Russia:

$1,764.05 per person

# 83

Suriname:

$1,737.69 per person

# 84

Romania:

$1,729.37 per person

# 85

Namibia:

$1,728.70 per person

# 86

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

$1,690.26 per person

# 87

Guatemala:

$1,628.86 per person

# 88

Maldives:

$1,608.95 per person

# 89

Algeria:

$1,568.55 per person

# 90

Jordan:

$1,525.17 per person

# 91

Samoa:

$1,465.18 per person

# 92

Cape Verde:

$1,425.97 per person

# 93

Tonga:

$1,371.78 per person

# 94

Kazakhstan:

$1,322.15 per person

# 95

Belarus:

$1,248.60 per person

# 96

Swaziland:

$1,219.70 per person

# 97

Djibouti:

$1,199.84 per person

# 98

Paraguay:

$1,196.42 per person

# 99

Albania:

$1,189.14 per person

# 100

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

$1,137.01 per person

# 101

Morocco:

$1,059.75 per person

# 102

Ecuador:

$1,044.44 per person

# 103

Turkmenistan:

$1,038.53 per person

# 104

Vanuatu:

$1,030.82 per person

# 105

Syria:

$935.58 per person

# 106

Philippines:

$920.19 per person

# 107

Bolivia:

$911.32 per person

# 108

China:

$865.03 per person

# 109

Guyana:

$837.39 per person

# 110

Honduras:

$827.22 per person

# 111

Sri Lanka:

$817.91 per person

# 112

Ukraine:

$748.67 per person

# 113

Kiribati:

$747.44 per person

# 114

Armenia:

$728.13 per person

# 115

Azerbaijan:

$665.89 per person

# 116

Georgia:

$661.75 per person

# 117

Equatorial Guinea:

$618.21 per person

# 118

Indonesia:

$599.24 per person

# 119

Cote d'Ivoire:

$593.05 per person

# 120

Angola:

$567.12 per person

# 121

Papua New Guinea:

$545.74 per person

# 122

Lesotho:

$541.12 per person

# 123

Uzbekistan:

$514.73 per person

# 124

Cameroon:

$514.49 per person

# 125

Zimbabwe:

$506.89 per person

# 126

Haiti:

$480.52 per person

# 127

Solomon Islands:

$469.50 per person

# 128

India:

$441.56 per person

# 129

Senegal:

$405.06 per person

# 130

Vietnam:

$392.19 per person

# 131

Pakistan:

$369.70 per person

# 132

Mongolia:

$344.88 per person

# 133

Bangladesh:

$336.87 per person

# 134

Guinea:

$332.07 per person

# 135

Nicaragua:

$326.20 per person

# 136

Moldova:

$326.08 per person

# 137

Comoros:

$326.06 per person

# 138

Mauritania:

$323.77 per person

# 139

Benin:

$316.89 per person

# 140

Kenya:

$315.04 per person

# 141

Zambia:

$295.52 per person

# 142

Nigeria:

$288.37 per person

# 143

Kyrgyzstan:

$268.28 per person

# 144

Gambia, The:

$267.23 per person

# 145

Sudan:

$266.32 per person

# 146

Ghana:

$261.97 per person

# 147

Tanzania:

$255.97 per person

# 148

Cambodia:

$244.90 per person

# 149

Bhutan:

$236.95 per person

# 150

Togo:

$236.79 per person

# 151

Central African Republic:

$235.62 per person

# 152

Madagascar:

$232.47 per person

# 153

Sao Tome and Principe:

$228.29 per person

# 154

Rwanda:

$223.77 per person

# 155

Mali:

$219.55 per person

# 156

Uganda:

$217.40 per person

# 157

Nepal:

$210.66 per person

# 158

Mozambique:

$195.82 per person

# 159

Burkina Faso:

$187.64 per person

# 160

Chad:

$164.90 per person

# 161

Niger:

$162.89 per person

# 162

Liberia:

$158.32 per person

# 163

Tajikistan:

$153.77 per person

# 164

Eritrea:

$145.39 per person

# 165

Guinea-Bissau:

$141.02 per person

# 166

Malawi:

$134.28 per person

# 167

Sierra Leone:

$118.20 per person

# 168

Ethiopia:

$91.37 per person

# 169

Burundi:

$88.82 per person

= 170

Libya:

$0.00 per person

= 170

Iraq:

$0.00 per person

= 170

Somalia:

$0.00 per person

Weighted average:

$5,737.28 per person

DOES U.S. RANK 5th, 32nd OR 38th?