Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:03:04 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Damien Tougas <damien@tougas.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Working in the United States Message-ID: <v04220800b52ef50f5632@[194.78.235.98]> In-Reply-To: <20000427152650.A384@tougas.net> References: <20000427152650.A384@tougas.net>
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At 3:26 PM -0600 2000/4/27, Damien Tougas wrote: > So, knowing that, could anyone be able tell me what type of wage is > reasonable? I have a fairly good idea what I would like if it were in > Canada, but I have no idea what would be reasonable for the US. There > are lots of things to think about such as the cost of living, > medicare, housing prices, etc. I don't want to end up losing out in > the end. In my experience, location of the job is a very strong influence on the amount of pay. If you would be working in a very expensive part of the US (such as Los Angeles, New York, or the D.C. area), then you could expect to get paid a lot more because your expenses (especially housing, transportation, parking, etc...) would be a lot higher. > The location of this new job would be in a smaller town in > southern Washington state, so I don't think the prices will be too > outragous. My suggestion is to start with the SAGE and SANS Annual Salary Survey data to see where you best fit across the whole industry, and then use the Pencom data to give you an idea what kind of adjustment to make for location (their salary numbers are off, but if you take the same mix of job skills and try them out in a variety of locations, you should be able to get an idea what kind of percentage modifications to make to the averages you get from SAGE and SANS). Searches on Google for this sort of stuff should point you in the right direction. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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