On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Stephen Potter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/27/2011 6:49 AM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 08:27:03PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>> >>> When you're on the market, how do you determine your own value? >> >> What I'm getting now plus 20%. > > I think, particularly in this day and age, 20% changes in the US market is > pretty much out of the question, unless you are seriously underpaid already. > And, even then, by the time it gets to HR, they'll probably bring it down > anyway. Laterals or 10% are probably the best you'll normally find (yes, I > know, someone out there will tell me they got 200%....). There's a lot of > talent out there and a lot of cost cutting going on. I've noticed a great > deal of downward pressure on salaries since the .com bubble, particularly > with larger shops doing a lot of off-shoring and the offshore talent coming > up to speed.
I think this is all about location. Here in Seattle, it seems most companies are tripping over each other to hire developers and systems engineers, and 20% certainly seems reasonable in this market. I don't think they are just hiring anyone, but if you are good I think you can get 2-3 offers here. Take that with a grain of salt as I have not been looking for or applying to full-time positions, but I see a lot of vacancies. Nick _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
