From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Salary Survey Information For Embedded, Realtime Programmers
Date: 1999/05/07
Date: 1999-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7gva8q$lj5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3732EE19.354D575A@pwfl.com
In article <3732EE19.354D575A@pwfl.com>,
diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:
> Head, David wrote:
> >
> > Don't forget to take into account WHERE your respondants live when they post
> > the large salaries. 1 Indiana dollar /= 1 NYC dollar! For an idea of this,
> > go to http://www2.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html and pick a couple cities
> > and see the difference.
> >
> I don't trust this calculator. I punched in a couple of cities with
> which I am familiar and came up with entirely counterintuitive results.
> I know that the cost of housing alone doubles yet the calculator shows a
> pay cut is justified. I'd be curious to see what sort of criteria they
> base their calculations on.
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.
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1999-05-05 0:00 Salary Survey Information For Embedded, Realtime Programmers Head, David
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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1999-05-04 0:00 Marin David Condic
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Michael Barr
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-05 0:00 ` John Birch
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Donald Gillies
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