The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.States or departments in four nations contain  Amazonas  in their names.he Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.
National Salary Statistics. Information published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that electricians working in the United States earned an average salary of $52,910 per year and an average wage of $25.44 per hour as of May 2011.
The Simply Hired career and employment website offers more specific information regarding union electrician salaries. At the time of publication, Simply Hired reports that an average annual salary for a union electrician is around $76,000.This figure is fairly consistent with BLS estimates that indicate that about 15 percent of all electricians earned between $63,880 and $80,890 annually during the reporting period.owever, in its 2010-11 Occupational Outlook Handbook, BLS reports that about 32 percent of electricians belong to a union. According to BLS, in May of 2008 the median average salary for all electricians -- union or otherwise -- was about $48,250 annually.