No matter how stressed out you are, you gotta appreciate this one:

Talent Shortage Gives Expats a Wages Boost

This was an article from last week, and I’ve been holding on to it. Every time I go to my RSS aggregator, I see this and it makes me smile. Now that I’ve finally posted it, I have to let it go. It makes me just a little bit sad.

But let’s make everyone happy just a bit longer. Enjoy the first couple of sentences:

OVERSEAS talent working on China’s mainland saw their salaries grow over the past year - a result of the country’s shortage of high-level native professionals. The study, conducted by the international human resources service company Hewitt Associates, profiled 551 positions of people coming from Western countries, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and other Asian regions, foreigners hired on the Chinese mainland and Chinese who have worked overseas but returned. The group with the highest percentage increase in salaries were top executive-level Chinese who returned from overseas and managed a rise of 9.4 percent from four percent for the previous year.

[Note to the underemployed and unemployed: I understand that this post probably pisses you off. Sorry about that. If you can’t share in the wealth personally, it doesn’t really matter how good the market is. I’ve been there several times and, believe me, understand and share your pain.]