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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Salary Survey Information For Embedded, Realtime Programmers
Date: 1999/05/07
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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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