Hi, This is my first post. I'm in Arkansas and my husband is a developer/programmer with his MS in Computer Science, so I thought you might appreciate some of his thoughts on this:
salary.com has some salary search abilities: http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layoutscripts/swzl_localrangebell.asp?job title=Entry+Level+Programmer&metrocode=23&geo=Boston%2C+MA&narrowcode=IT03&z ipcode=02101&r=salswz_swzmatbll_psr&yearsofexp=&jobcode=IT10000010&narrowdes c=IT+--+All&wsrcode=SW1&isswzupdateoptin=&isjswupdateoptin=&isnewsoptin=&cho osesignup=0 It doesn't specify whether it's a non-profit or not, but to some extent that's immaterial, since they're competing with for-profit companies anyway. It looks to me like the median for Programmer I (which is what they're describing) in Boston is going to be about $55,000, although the bottom 10% drops down into the $40,000 range. My guess is that they'd have a hard time finding a full time programmer in Boston for $30k, especially since local recent graduates are going to be from pretty good schools and won't lack for high paying offers. Their best bets at that price are going to be part timers, people who are still students, or late-career programmers who don't need the money and are just looking to get off the fast track. So, just a little food for thought from a computer person. Hope it helps. Heather Marie Heather Marie Wells Collections Assistant/Podcast Producer Shiloh Museum of Ozark History 118 W. Johnson Ave. Springdale, AR 72764 Phone: (479) 750-8165 Fax: (479) 750-8693 http://www.springdaleark.org/shiloh/ -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:33 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] programmer salaries We're having a bit of an argument here about appropriate salaries for programming staff. We are considering hiring our first developer. The internal argument goes something like, "this person is just out of school and we can't pay him as much as someone with a Masters" - ie, we can't pay as much as we pay our starting humanities graduates. The reality is that we could then be offering someone in the very low $30k range, which is, by my quick glance at Boston salaries, about 10k (or more) lower than such people get outside of our field. For those people who have hired staff developers, what do you pay for what skills at what level? -- I imagine paying less for PHP developers than Java developers, for instance. Where are there some salary tables that I can look at to get a sense of what an expensive city (Boston) pays for these skills in the non-profit world (recognizing that most non-profits do not hire staff developers). ari _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
