We don't use monster.com to hire but its a fairly good tool to figure out what the state of the job market is for situations like this. You can use monster.com to search for programmer postings in Boston and then filter by salary range - you won't get (m)any for what you're looking to offer. And Holly is right on the money - you get what you pay for... -nik Nik Honeysett Head of Administration J. Paul Getty Museum tel: 310-440-7346 fax: 310-440-7751 nhoneysett at getty.edu
>>> "Ari Davidow" <aridavidow at gmail.com> 2/2/2007 7:33 AM >>> 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
