I would say this really boils down to experience, and any special skills or hardships of the job.
Junior level coder guy 1-3 years experience Medical & dental 10 Paid days (sick and leave) Depending on where I've seen from 40-60 a year Mid level 3-6 years experience Medical & dental Retirement 401k 15 paid days 60-80 a year Senior 6 + years of experience Medical & dental 20 paid days leave per year Retirement/401K 80+ a year I will not take a drug test, and will leave a company over it. Not because I'm afraid of anything, but it's none of their damned business. This is even as a cleared government employee and I haven't had a problem with it yet. The biggest part of compensation I am generally looking for at this point is telecommuting. I mean, I want to be able to work from home no less than 2 days a week, and with most of what we do I don't see why that could or should be a problem these days. It saves me money, saves me stress, and gives the company similar benefits. > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:57 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Employee compensation > > For some reason the topic of employee compensation keeps coming up > recently in personal conversations, and my last experience with it was > twenty years ago in our family's previous business, so I'm terribly out of > date on the subject. > > What would you say is a good compensation package -- salary, benefits, > etc? The hypothetical person being compensated would be talented in the > technologies s/he is currently using, wanting to learn exciting new > technologies, blah blah blah -- typical headhunter BS description. > > Before you fire back with "Eight million dollars, company car, etc, etc," > I'm looking for serious answers -- if I can get them from you guys ;) I > could really use some perspective. > > Also, what are the intangibles you find most important in companies that > are hiring? Some of the people I've been talking with left a previous job > because of things that I would normally find trivial compared to > employment as a whole, but then again I wasn't there. > > One thing I've heard from lots of people I've talked to is how violated > they feel when they are forced to take drug tests or the like. And things > like background checks for credit or criminal history. I know there are > fields where things like this are considered necessary, but I'm narrowing > the scope to our industry because it's the only one I'm familiar with. > > Any feedback you guys can give me would be appreciated. I don't know why > this is so much in my mind, but when it gets like this I have to go all > the way through a subject before I'm done with it. > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee > > > > Get advanced intensive Master-level training in > C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at > ProductivityEnhancement.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216637 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
