Re: Salary Survey Information For Embedded, Realtime Programmers

[Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> There is a FAQ page on their site that goes into that. As I remember it is
> highly dependent on housing prices and real-estate taxes. State and local
> income taxes are *not* taken into account, but the rates are listed.
> 
Well, that seems to be as useful as the proverbial screen-door on a
submarine. Taxes in an area are most certainly a part of the cost of
living. Here in Florida, we have no state income tax, but we do have
sales tax (equivalent to many other states) and we tax the hell out of
things which are most frequently consumed by tourists - not residents.
Whereas other states will have a similar sales tax, along with income
tax, property tax (which gets bigger if housing costs go up!) tax on
cars, boats or other significant personal property, etc. etc. All that
has to be paid if you live in a state, just like the cost of gasoline or
groceries, so it doesn't seem fair to ignore it.

One of the problems we have with salaries is this cost of living
differential between states. This is especially difficult for a company
like UTC which spans states yet has payroll policies established
uniformly by "headquarters".

MDC
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