Selling Our Services to the World Part 14 of 17
Too often, services get a bad rap. The hamburger-flipper stereotype of services jobs would have us believe that they are innately and unalterably inferior to goods-producing jobs. That simply is not true. Yes, there are low-paying jobs in services, just as there are low-paying ones in goods, but the Master Trading Futures average services worker today makes more than the average factory worker. If we look back to 1990, we see that hourly wages have grown faster in services than manufacturing for all service categories except transportation and warehousing.
Average manufacturing earnings stood at $16.40 an hour in 2007, excluding overtime. Finance, insurance and real estate workers earned $19.66 an hour. Professional and business services were at $20.14 an hour and information services at $23.92 an hour. Utilities paid their workers $27.93. Only retail trade and leisure and hospitality paid significantly less than manufacturing in 2007and these are industries that for the most part dont require advanced skills The Affluent Desktop Currency Trader and employ large numbers of students and many young people just starting their careers
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