salary ballpark please guys

In my experience, the only postings which list specific salaries are the postings by recruiters. I don't think most of those are real jobs. The recruiters are just trying to collect resumes.

But YMMV.

--Mac

One of the recruiting web sites in Silicon Valley runs amusing radio ads making fun of the other recruiters. Someone calls in to a recruiter and asks about a job that has a listing with a code "MU", and is told that it stands for made up. The ensuing conversation is something like:

"So it's not a real listing?"

"Oh, the listing is real, but the job doesn't exist."

"What about this other one with the code 'BS'?"

When I've dealt with recruiters, there were always real jobs associated with the listings I inquired about. But maybe that's not universally true.

Eric

EETimes salary review 2004

Austin,

Thanks for the excellent post.

I agree with your sentiments in that salary isn't everything (indeed - it is far from it). Your brother hit the nail on the head for sure.

The main thing I think is that you enjoy what you do and get paid such that your employer *values* you and you feel valued.

This leads to stimulating environment where employee and employer respect each other and neither party feels like they are getting a bum deal.

Of course, you need an idea of what your value is to make sure the salary fits (or thereabouts!), hence my post.

I also agree that an engineer with a bachelors degree and years of experience is worth way way more than someone with a PhD an next to no experience (2000 - 2004 was a good time to be doing a PhD on DSP on FPGAs however given the state of the industry! :-) )

Incidentally, my wife is always telling me how much smarter than me she is (she is). I just wave my PhD certificate at her when that happens - drives her nuts... ;-)

Cheers,

Dave

~120K/yr

Here in Oslo, Norway a newspaper delevery person working 29-39 hours a week can make $126K/yr (NOK 800K). No PhD required :-)

Petter

In article , Petter Gustad writes: |> Here in Oslo, Norway a newspaper delevery person working 29-39 hours a |> week can make $126K/yr (NOK 800K). No PhD required :-)

Does that give any idea about the rent for a single one-room apartment and the average costs for food?

Or is that newspaper delivery just an alibi job for some other, lesser legal delivery going on below the surface? :)

Rainer

A 16 sq.meter apartment (180 sq.ft or the size of a typical American clothing cabinet) in Oslo costs up to 1.2MNOK or close to $200K. Gasoline in northern Norway was $8.60/gallon a couple weeks ago.

No :-) There was an article about the paper delivery workers in the Norwegian Financial Times

Petter