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Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by mhurron »

samstave wrote: post #42
eitally wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

What/where is RDU?

Raleigh/Durham North Carolina. RDU is the call for the international airport.

Others will also refer to it as RTP, but that's really a specific area in RDU.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by mhurron »

eitally wrote: post #29
akhilcacharya wrote: post #3

$122K in RDU seems very high for a developer/engineer, strange.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

> What's disturbing is the number of companies only hiring contractors or contract-to-hire engineers around here.

So, no different than anywhere else.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by antonioneffy »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #43
antonioneffy wrote: post #35

Didn't realize that $80k straight out of college was that high until I saw this. Wow.

All depends on the area ;) Best offers I have seen out of college is $130K total comp from random people on the internet, haven't seen anything better yet.

I'm just wondering why a lot of these people with tons of experience are settling for sub-$70k jobs. Is there a reason for this?

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by akhilcacharya »

eitally wrote: post #29
akhilcacharya wrote: post #3

$122K in RDU seems very high for a developer/engineer, strange.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

That's very interesting. I'm in the area and thought it would skew lower, even for ~18 years experience like in the spreadsheet. It would be nice to know the company for that particular row.

Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

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Post by rtkwe »

samstave wrote: post #42
eitally wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries. Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch…

What/where is RDU?

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina is what it usually means, there's a lot of programming and biomedical business in the area between the 3 cities because we have 3 colleges in the area to feed new talent in for a lot of different fields.

(PS: When in doubt check airport codes.)

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