The International Average Salary Income Database provides a comparison of average salaries for various professions. Suppose an organizational psychologist is interested in the relationships between job satisfaction, job performance, and job compensation. She has data for five different countries on the average monthly salaries paid to computer programmers. To appreciate the differences among the countries, she calculates the z-scores for a computer programmer making $1500 per month. Compute the Z-score for $1500 salary in US dollars.
Country
Average Monthly Salary Standard Deviation Z-Score for $1500 Salary in US dollars
Italy S1557 S467.20
Hungary S1468 S220.20
Czech Republic S1059 S158.80
United States S4141 S1242.20
Latvia S790 S118.60