Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries? • Hacker News Board

chrisabrams wrote: post #5

Could you update the last item, about stock, to include annual , so it's clear. 100k over 4 years is different than over 1 year.

Oops, took care of that.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by evtothedev » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 8:17 PM UTC

Does anyone know why engineering salaries are so low in Chicago? Especially with regards to city size / cost of living / amount of tech?

It baffled me when I lived there, and it still baffles me when I don't.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by ljk » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 8:17 PM UTC

e0m wrote: post #12

Wow, after ~90 submissions there have been 0 female-identified entries :/

there's probably a bit of sampling bias

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by krzyk » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 8:18 PM UTC

noxToken wrote: post #7

I'd argue that you should suggest an input format for some of the answers. This would help normalize the incoming data. For example, you could have (City, State) for the location, and (numbers only) for numeric input fields.

How about adding a Country also?

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by alkonaut » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 8:20 PM UTC

Entering locations is notoriously difficult. Country + City is probably the best you could do, where country could be re-used for US States.