Lamont Peterson wrote:
...
Given the way that the cost of living (and even in Utah County, look at
housing costs) has gone up in the past year alone, $50k isn't a salary most
could own a home on.
...
It sure sounds like you're trying to justify the short-changing on the hiring
budget.
My advice is this ... you get what you pay for. If you want a
programmer/developer/software engineer (or whatever other fuzzy title du
jour) with skills that actually get things done and get them done right, you
need to put out a salary range that is high enough to attract those kinds of
coders to even submit a resume to begin with. if your published salary range
is too low to begin with, you won't get any decent candidates.
You get what you pay for. At the salary range you're talking about, I could
not support my small family and I would not even attempt to apply.
I hope this is helpful feedback. And, please, don't take any of it
personally. This is a tough topic to discuss, but I wouldn't be doing you or
anyone else any favors by sugar-coating anything.
No this is very helpful. The hard part is convincing those with the
purse strings and those that make the salary offers that their
expectations are off base. You'd think that after having a position
unfilled for 7 months they would change their minds. I happen to work
with folks who are stubborn and think that its better to have a
short-handed development team than pay 15-25% more in a tight market.
- Ken
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