Aloha, There are many good paying tech jobs in Hawaii. They are just all with the US government (contractor adn civil service) and almost all require a security clearance. A clearance isn't hard to get, but it can take a long time. There is something like SIX TIMES as many jobs that require a clearance as there are people with a clearance, so they usually pay pretty well for talent.
On the civillian side things are pretty SAD! At the peak of the Internet (Sandi and I went to the mainland for those years) I was looking at some jobs in Honolulu. And I saw things like a position for a Solaris Unix admin, requiring 10 years experience and a master degree and it offered $35,000. A person with that kind of background could be easily making $100,000 in any city on the mainland at that time. From what I have seen being back for two years now, things haven't gotten much better. For people looking, here is a list of most of the government contractors on the island. Almost every position they have will require you to get and maintain a security clearance, but they have cool jobs and pay pretty well. CSC Roger Hirlinger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Hay - 834-3688 Al Edwards, Jr. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BAH Ted Peck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPAWAR Bernie Schneiderman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] TNOSC Gladys Skinner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCERT Ron Lee - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PRC Matt McCullough - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wheat International Jim Bone - 521-8810 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Freeman, VP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anteon Jim Hickerson - 838-1300 Wakelight Joy Hess - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Training Academy Robert Nehmad - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAIC Keith Briem - 834-8268 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jill Schalm - [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS Sandi Schneierman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raytheon Jim Etherton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wamnet John Rogers - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mahalo, Dusty > On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:32 pm, Stan Baptista wrote: >> >> So how does Hawaii expect to attract and keep high >> quality technical talent and businesses when they can >> do so much better elsewhere? Frankly, I have yet to >> hear any answer other than "lucky live Hawaii" when I >> inquire about the salary situation. Well, I >> guess...maybe, but it's not a very satisfactory >> answer. > > begin rant > I have come to hate this phrase. This and the "price of paradise." > They seem to excuse every market inefficiency and economic incongruity > we have. They distort basic laws of economics by enabling one to > justify non-market rates simply because of our location. They create > an economic myth that is simply not true. I find that greed, the fact > that we border on being an isolated second world government, and > unchecked corruption are the true contributors to our staggering > economic discrepancies. A simple solution is not so easily stated. > end rant > > scott > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
