New York

Overview

Major Employers: Amerada Hess Corporation, American Express Company, American International Group, American Standard, Inc., American Stock Exchange Inc., AT&T Corporation, Avon Products Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., The Bear Stearns Companies Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, CBS Inc., Citicorp, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., Dean Witter, Discover & Co., Dow Jones & Company, Ernst & Young, The Hearst Corporation, ITT Corporation, KPMG Peat Marwick, Brothers, Loral Corporation, McGraw-Hill Inc., Metropolitan Life Inc., Merrill Lynch & Company, Paine Webber Group Inc., Pfizer Inc., Price Waterhouse, RJR Nabisco Inc., Time Warner Inc., The New York Times Company, The Travelers Inc., Woolworth Corporation, Viacom Inc., Young and Rubicam Inc. [more info]
Unemployment Rate: 5.4% (2008)
Sales Tax: 4.0%
Income Tax: 4-6.85%
Temperature: 32 ~ 77 °F
Mean Salary: $47,610
Cost of Living Index: 212.1 (100 = national average)
Air Quality Index: 140, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Public Transportation: MTA subways, buses, and railroads move 2.3 billion New Yorkers a year, about one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders. [more info]

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