Back to the Quiz 13. 13. American social workers should plan to spend their careers in the United States. Although most American educated social workers spend the bulk of their careers in the practice of social work in the United States, there are large numbers of international opportunities with organizations such as the United Nations, Peace Corps, and the U.S. Agency for National Development. Back to the Quiz 14. African-American and Hispanic social workers appear to have higher median salaries than white social workers.
Some surveys show that minority social workers have higher earnings than white social workers.
However, their numbers are small and the figures may not be accurate. Back to the Quiz 15. A portable retirement program is one that can be taken to another job and continued without interruption. Generally portable retirement plans are preferable to those that are not portable. If one can continue in a retirement plan over a long career, the benefits will build up and the worker will not have to start out as a new participant in the plan.