Pay shock vs data
From the Herald, using data from Seek.co.nz: Pay shock: Wellington, not Auckland, is the New Zealand city with the highest advertised salaries.
According to the New Zealand Income Survey, the Wellington region has had the highest median weekly earnings for people in paid employment every year since at least 2007., so the shock should have had time to sink in by now. Looking at NZ.Stat, that’s also true for average weekly earnings.
However, when looking at actual earnings rather than advertisements at one site, Wellington’s percentage lead was only about half as big. And, of course, the actual dollar amounts are lower.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »