Whoops ... I didn't see Randy's post before I sent this one off ... so if the Mods want to tank my post, that is okay.
Well, we always really knew that JWs were among the lower wage earners ... you know, high school graduates at best ... taking all those janitorial jobs ... but now its official:
Portland, Ore.: Episcopalians still are up there, but a study shows Jews are No. 1, with a median household income in 2000 of $72,000. Episcopalians are second with a median household income of $58,000, followed by two groups on opposite sides of the theological spectrum -- Unitarian-Universalists at $55,000 and evangelical born-again Christians at $54,000. ... Rounding out the Top 10 in rankings reported at the conference and in the new book "Religion in a Free Market" by Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar are Hindus, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, unspecified Protestants and Catholics. The median household incomes of all these groups were at least $5,000 above the $42,000 median household income in the United States in 2000. ... On the lowest end of the scale were groups such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Jehovah's Witnesses, with household incomes of $30,000 or less.
Source:http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/briggs110706.html
Some JWs have an education and do better finanically ... but, the median make far less than people of other denominations. Perhaps one day JWs will wake up and realize that having a degree or two is something that will benefit them in many ways.
What puzzles me is how the Seventh-day Adventist ended up on the same scale as the JWs. Adventists are big on higher education. They have a very good university called "College Place" in Washington State. They poroduce very good doctors and educators. There must be something strange going on with the Adventists these days.
Jim Whitney