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March 2005

Pay relatives for metropolitan areas in the NCS

Maury B. Gittleman

Using data from the National Compensation Survey, calculations of pay which take into account the composition of employment across localities indicate that measures of interarea pay differentials which do not control for employment composition can be misleading.

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