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If you’ve ever wondered how much people get paid at small, medium or large companies then this is the site for you and it’s completely free. You can view companies (over 11,000) generally or enter your own and see a lot more.

What is quite surprising for example that at JP Morgan Chase a personal banker is paid between $30K and $48K with an average of $35K. That’s from 41 submissions. Not everyone who works in a bank gets paid well! It’s an interesting site but as it depends upon people submitting details, so you will get back more if you submit yours. Just be careful not to submit too much or you might accidentally provide enough for your employer to identify you!

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If you want to find out statistics about the UK, jobs, population, etc the National Statistics website is an excellent source. Most of the material there is Crown Copyright which means it can be quoted or used so long as you acknowledge the source and don’t try and do anything stupid like sell it.

While looking for something there I came across the map shown which shows which areas have received the most immigrants (legal ones that is) between 2004 and 2006. Living in the South East it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the whole world lives here but in fact as the map shows, immigrants have settled in many parts of the UK, even 22 in Larne (in N. Ireland) where I took my driving test 30 years ago!

The picture and link below link to a PDF.
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This is a bit different from the usual websites. It’s on one topic- about changing peoples minds and has over 2,200 pages on a wide variety of topics. Very nicely organised and laid out.

For instance some of it is about the brain, writing, NLP, theories. It’s difficult to sum up in one phrase except it is about changing minds. Changing someone’s opinion on something is a difficult thing to do. In my experience once someone has made their mind up about something or someone then moving them away from that opinion is a difficult, in fact near impossible thing to do.

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