Well, I did just get "promoted" to the Laurel area tech, and a little pay raise. I had heard that the average wage for Billings was 11.50/hr which is where I started with this job. So when I got my last pay raise, I was pretty stoked, the other nght in my Urban Ecology class, the city-county health director and Chuck Tooley (former Billings mayor) had both stated that the average wage for Billings was $14/hr... so now I'm average again. I don't think its too bad for a college student. With GE and Cabelas opening in the area, they are going to have to be really competitive to keep employees around, hell, we have a lower than ideal unemployment rate at 2%.