On: How (not) to get a job at a startup...

[axod]

45-60k is market? :/ ouch.

[fallentimes → axod]

Maybe in the Idaho market.

[alaskamiller → fallentimes]

Now I feel undervalued making 60k in SF bay area three years ago :(

[fallentimes → alaskamiller]

It really depends on what you're doing, where you're doing it and who you're doing it for. If you were a writer 3 years ago, you were banking it.

[alaskamiller → fallentimes]

I made websites at a big corp. I thought it was pretty decent for a kid like me that dropped out of school and didn't want to go back. I worked extra too just to try to impress my bosses because the name and reference on my resume was well worth it.

[fallentimes → alaskamiller]

It probably was then.

[auston → axod]

It is in Broward and Palm Beach county, Florida.

[noodle → auston]

after cross-referencing salary.com and payscale for boca raton, the average pay for someone with 2 years experience (just to approximate the skills required for the position) is about $58k. $45k is off the bottom end of the chart, approaching the 0th percentile.

to pay above market, you'd need to be paying $60k minimum, not maximum.

all of this is, of course, assuming benefits (health/dental/etc).

[_pslf → auston]

For an entry-level, fresh out of a mid-tier school graduate, perhaps. (based on my experience as a programmer in NW Broward)