wages

[Steven Waters]

I am working in the San Fernando Valley. 
Which is So. Cal / LA area. I make around 80K/yr
and I feel like I am working paycheck to paycheck.
Check out this link,

http://www.glendale-real-estate.com/

The cheapest house listed is $300,000 and has 900 sq ft
You can bet it is on the wrong side of the tracks.
The house you want to live in is probably 700K+
So maybe I need a raise also!

Steve
 




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Without looking at that URL, I'd note a couple of things -

in '02, we still had some gleam in our eyes from the dot com bubble.
It hadn't finished deflating from that burst yet. I wouldn't consider wage
reports from that time frame to be an accurate indicator.
Secondly, it is very very much dependant on the size of the company you work
for, and the industry - even within a given location. I work for a small to
midsized company, I do sysadmin, development, filepro admin, and a host of
other things (while I was typing this a coworker came in asking me about the
phone system). My title is 'IT Manager'.
We're located about 60-90 minutes north of Sacramento - not So.Cal, but not
too far from there. I'm making in the mid 50s/yr.

It is possible that I could be making a bit more if I played the shopping
around for employers game, but this place is basically a good fit for me.
I'm making what is considered low-average for this area and my skillset. I
would probably take a better offer if it were dropped in my lap, but I'm not
really looking for one - and really, jobs that you wouldn't take the better
offer over can be rare in this day and age.

-SM

On 10/26/05, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
> At Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:12:40AM -0700 or thereabouts, suspect 
> Enrique Arredondo was observed uttering:
> >
> > Thanks for that, For example what does it averages in Southern
California.
> > I'm just checking to see if I'm at an average level because I think 
> > I'm not getting paid enough right now. So I can negotiate with my 
> > employer or start looking somewhere else if they're not interested in
keeping me.
>
> -Just- taking into account system administration, you might look at 
> the following URL:
>
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