This is tangentially related, but what should a new college grad expect to make his first year out?
The 2011 IT Salary Guide
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#42This just reminds me of how underpaid I am and that the closest city pays an average of 10% higher the average. I'm thinking it's time to move ;p
Remember that cities are more expensive to live in than suburbs. That extra 10% might just be cost of living adjustment. You have to figure out what your expenses are currently, as well as what your estimated expenses will be in the new location, before you really know that you will be getting an extra 10% salary or whatever.
Yeah, but if you live in a real city with good public transport and a thriving commercial/residential core you can get by without a car and all of the associated costs. I live in Manhattan and though it is more expensive than elsewhere the pay differential and the money saved on cars makes it a pretty good proposition. (For me, anyway; degustibus non est disputantum and so forth.)
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#43Going through the salary guide, I know .NET, Java, PHP and SharePoint, help desk pros, virtualization, cloud computing, Saas. And with my Project management certifications (Prince2)... it's time to ask for a raise! Er.. next step, how to approach my boss? Any suggestions?
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#44we work 7 hours a day (20-30 minutes break for food and tea). coding is very intense work, hard work (as you know), better code 6:40 hours effectivly. Plus in free time after the office hours we ussually code again but for fun or our project.
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#45How much less should someone make if 'Junior' is prepended to their title?
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#46Is the base number for the programming jobs even meaningful, since it seems like every language adds a modifier?
Or, to put it another way, the modifiers are 4-8%. So that 4% baseline could be subtracted out to give a better base.
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#47• New York, NY: 41% higher • San Francisco: 35% higher as skype/telecommuting evolve there's an incredible arbitrage opportunity here without even going offshore.
anecdotally, you can pull this off if you have worked somewhere for a while on location and then go remote, but going for the full salary from a remote location from the get go, not sure.
Yeah, I've seen this where someone goes from in-office to work-at-home locally to work-at-home distant, and there was no salary cut at any point.
OTOH, the multiplier for our company for NYC is not 40%.
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#48This is tangentially related, but what should a new college grad expect to make his first year out?
I graduated in my May. My friends who were CS and went to work for "normal" software companies (i.e. exclude startups, wall street, and the big guns like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft etc) are making $50k-$65k. Those salaries were mostly in Philadelphia and Washington DC.
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#49As a postdoc, I'm not going to look at this. It would only depress me.
I was a postdoc during the NYC transit strike, I read how much various unskilled MTA job categories (e.g., garbage collector, token booth cashier [1]) made and how much of a pay increase they hoped for. That was depressing.
[1] For those outside NYC, we have a human in many subway stations selling metrocards. Often the human refuses to sell metrocards and just points people to the vending machine.
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#50Going through the salary guide, I know .NET, Java, PHP and SharePoint, help desk pros, virtualization, cloud computing, Saas. And with my Project management certifications (Prince2)... it's time to ask for a raise! Er.. next step, how to approach my boss? Any suggestions?
If you search, I believe there's been a couple discussions on this recently. It comes down to being able to justify it, either by a.) increased roles and responsibilities or b.) value/scope of work completed.