While your wage and employment contract data is pretty eye opening, one thing that people mis-state is High school graduates are hired anywhere of significance. Lets get one thing staight....you cannot, I repeat you cannot get a job in corporate America without having at least a bachelors degree. Yes, you can work on an assembly line, if uncle joe or aunt jill get you through the door. You will not get an office job no matter how experienced you are in this country any longer. The most embarrassing part about employment in this country are sales positions. Used to be , if you were willing to work hard and push product you could make it in sales.....wrongo! Now the sales groups want a BS or BA to push their products????. Funny, I don't think an executive ask's wether his Mercedes or BMW salesman has a college degree or not. Hmmmmmm?