I've been looking over the past couple years for a different dev job. I'm currently in a giant corporate setting with all the horrible paperwork and useless red

I've been looking over the past couple years for a different dev job. I'm currently in a giant corporate setting with all the horrible paperwork and useless red tape that goes with it. I get to develop maybe 20% of the time, the rest is trying to figure out how to fill out paperwork about what I'm developing. I really don't like it. My pay has dropped over the past few years when you factor in health care premiums and cost of living. I'm living paycheck to paycheck, but in my area developer pays are only now just slowly creeping up from 2008 levels. I don't want to move with kids in school. I really, really keep hoping the pay in the area goes up soon, as I'm disliking my days more and more.