I want a current (5 yr or less) list of Job descriptions and pay rates
for for white and blue collar jobs in Mexico, Extra points if it is
Northern Mexico only. I will need to know when the survey was taken,
and wether the population was "big city" or not. And do they have
resume posting websites?

I want to use the list as an example of what education can bring to a
poor family, so the bottom end of the scale is less important than the
top.

Dear whychild-ga,

The LABORSTA site (http://laborsta.ilo.org/) of the International
Labour Office
database on labour statistics (operated by the International Labour
Organization) containts a group of statistics that may be useful to
you.

From that URL you will get to the LABORSTA selection screen
(http://laborsta.ilo.org/cgi-bin/brokerv8.exe). There you can select
Mexico as the country and the table "5A Wages, by economic activity"
to do the search. Then, You will get the statistics list in Mexican
currency, from 1991-2000 and grouped by the International Standard
Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities:

category A: Agriculture, Hunting and Forestry 
category B: Fishing 
category C: Mining and Quarrying 
category D: Manufacturing 
category E: Electricity, Gas and Water Supply 
category F: Construction 
category G: Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles,
Motorcycles and Personal and Household Goods
category H: Hotels and Restaurants 
category I: Transport, Storage and Communications 
category J: Financial Intermediation 
category K: Real Estate, Renting and Business Activities 
category L: Public Administration and Defence
category M: Education 
category O: Other Community,Social and Personal Service Activities 
category P: Private Households with Employed Persons 
category Q: Extra-Territorial Organizations and Bodies 
category X: Not classifiable by economic activity 

Another document that may be helpful to you is "The Mexican Economy
1999", by Banco de Mexico
http://www.banxico.org.mx/gpublicaciones/mexicaneconomy/mexecon99/mexcon99.pdf

In chapter 1.1.2. "Employment and Earnings", page 20, you will find an
overview of the Mexican labour market, including employment indicators
by economic sector and a comparison between U.S. and Mexican
productivity(page 28).

For Mexican resume posting sites visit:

http://www.laborum.com/ : select Mexico in the welcome screen, and the
"Buscar Trabajo" link to search for positions.

http://www.latpro.com/ : Click on "Job Search", then Select Latin
America and Mexico on the region and country search fields.

http://www.empleoguadalajara.com/ : Click on "Buscar Empleo" to see a
list of positions available, some of them include salary offered.


Search Strategy

Google Search

Salarios en Mexico
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=salarios+en+mexico

National Urban Employment Survey, Register of Households (Encuesta
Nacional de Empleo Urbano, Registro de Hogares - ENEU).
://www.google.com/search?q=National+Urban+Employment+Survey%2C+Register+of+Households+%28Encuesta+Nacional+de+Empleo+Urbano%2C+Registro+de+Hogares+-+ENEU%29.+&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I hope this goes some way towards helping you find the information you
are looking for.
Thanks for using Google Answers.

Jmmjumarti-ga

Good job, thanks

Ulrich Lachler of the World Bank has done some research into the
relationship between education and wages in Mexico. Unfortunately, his
statistics are from 1994 (http://econ.worldbank.org/docs/635.pdf).
Maybe if you e-mail him, he can point you to more-current information.
His e-mail address is available under his name at
(http://ideas.repec.org/p/wop/wobael/1949.html).