I'd like to know where I can find the avarage wages around the world.
In particular for people working in the field of IT and Marketing (for
telecommuting).
Sorry about my english!

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Clarification of Question by pietro2002-ga on 18 Sep 2004 04:34 PDT

I mean for istance: what's the salary of a person working in the field
of services in India India? and in china?
I just I need to have an idea not to have the precise numebers.

If you are asking about telephone solisiting jobs, my guess is less
than one dollar per hour world wide average, with the medium pay
slightly higher. If you are asking about highly trained professionals,
excluding technicians and the persons who solicit on the telephone,
perhaps $15 per hour, including perks, commissions and bonuses. Pay is
typically much higher in first world countries.   Neil

Hi Pietro,
Can you wait for another year or two to get an answer? :-)
I'm currently helping to develop the China Wage Indictor
(www.mywage.cn), as a part of the Euopean wage indicator, funded by
the EU. (www.wageindicator.org).
This would be the first projects that would allow wages to be compared
on a global scale. For now: even for a country like China there are
only very unreliable figures available.
Now only the Netherlands has this system running and within this month
eight other European countries will follow. In China we hope to be
online by the beginning of 2005, but then it would take some time
before we have enough data together. The Americas are also trying to
get involved, and initiative have been taken in India and Russia. But
it would need a big of patience at this stage.

Yes but Petro , Fons etc dont you need to pay heed to the OECD's PPP index
(Purchasing Price Parity Index) before you could compare wages. For
instance in Australia the  Australian dollar moves in value from US48
cents a cupla years back to US80 cents a cupla months back settling at
US69 cents currently. Al this time the PPP hardly moved so that the
PPP rate was US78cents to $1.00 Australian. This is based on a
"basket" of goods of similar importance and frequency of use/need in
each country compared in price from one country to another. In other
words if you bought a basket of goods say, a weeks worth of butter,
bread, car insurance,washing powder, etc etc that cost $100 in
Australian dollars in Australia then the same basket would cost $78 in
USdollars in the US. Therefore someone taking home $100 wages
Australia could be compared equally to someone taking home $78 in the
US. If you simply used the exchange rate to measure then at 69cents
you would come up with someone earning $100 in Australia equal to
someone earning $69 in US which would be wrong by$9.00.

 Well thats ho I understand it anyway; maybe you can see where my
logic is wrong or not as valid as data you are using

Comparing wages between countries is going to be a challenge in
itself, you are right. For the time being we try to figure out what is
going on in China, then develop a system to compare wages between
countries.