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Not having to uproot the family is understandable, but if you're worried about the competitiveness of the market, know that there are a ton of jobs as well (ask
by aashay 13y ago
Not having to uproot the family is understandable, but if you're worried about the competitiveness of the market, know that there are a ton of jobs as well (ask anyone on HN about recruiter spam, which seems to serve as a proxy to this fact), which perhaps balances things. Six years of experience is non-trivial, I'm sure if you wanted to you could find something.
- cglace 13y agoWhat would be your guess for the average salary in the valley of someone with 6-8 years of experience?
- textminer 13y agoMy suggestion is to avoid telling a potential new employer what you make now. They'd then work hard to cap you at current + 30% instead of what a comparably-skilled peer might make.
- encoderer 13y agoTextminer is right, no need to mention your current wage. But honestly, it seriously depends on what technologies you have experience with. But to give you a number, you could very easily get $125k. I bet if you somehow got 100 offers, the vast majority of them would be normally distributed between $110 and $140k. Mitigating factors: 1. The universe of companies willing to fly-in a candidate and pay for relocation is smaller, so you have less bargaining power. I was able to secure a 20% raise the first time I changed jobs here -- a year after relocating. 2. If you have impressive skills in more lucrative technologies you can certainly make more.
- cglace 13y agoInteresting, that number is about the same as it is here in Atlanta but the cost of living is drastically lower.
- encoderer 13y agoThe average salary for a software engineer in ATL is 110-140k? I talked to 2 companies in Atlanta in 2010ish (MailChimp and a smaller private company) and their salary ranges were well below that ($90-110k iirc). I'm surprised to hear it's so high!