[Baypiggies] Salary ranges

[Seth Friedman]

My first reaction to salary ranges this wide are that the people doing the
hiring are not practicing the most critical thinking ever carried out.

With quite a bit of experience on both sides of this equation, $50k in san
francisco is an entry level computer enthusiast with a high school degree,
customer support role.  If someone took a job with any substantial
professional experience in programming for $50k in SF here, I would be
suspicious about them.

And no, I don't believe those salary statistics sites until they are
transparent about their data sources / methodology.

~seth

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alan Westbrook <voidref at gmail.com> wrote:

> In 1998 entry level C++ devs were worth at least $45k in Santa Cruz
> (an area notorious for paying less than the Bay Area).
>
> So $50k seems quite low. Especially given that it's in San Francisco.
>
> Alan
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
> >> Let's put it this way: how many people with real (not just titular) two
> >> or more years of experience with Django would take $50K/year (keeping in
> >> mind that real Django experience implies Python, SQL, HTML/CSS, and
> >> JavaScript), given how competitive the current market is for those
> >> skills?  Speaking as someone who six months ago was on the searching
> side
> >> and is now on the hiring side, I definitely think this range is on the
> >> low end.  But I would be interested in hearing contrary opinions from
> >> people with experience in hiring.
> >
> > I definitely agree the low end of this scale is too low. When I said
> > "average" I wasn't looking at the median of that range (I was looking at
> the
> > higher end). The median is $70K which is $10K - $15K lower than the
> average
> > I mentioned. Oh, and these numbers do take the current economy into
> > consideration.
> > I hadn't rechecked these stats, though, for six months..
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Glen
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