I have used Salary.com in the past to get a feel for what the base salary for someone with my experience is in my area. I personally have had jobs that deviated greatly in both directions from the average given by salary.com. I was just wanting to see if anyone else out there saw the same thing, or if I am just an anomoly.
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That's the problem with averages - deviations in both directions cancel them out. I had the same experience.
As far as whomever marked this question offensive - do you work for salary.com? ;)
Greg Hurlman
2008-08-25 15:54:46
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A potential inaccuracy is the Job description. Do you always have a job that meets the narrow deffintion that is "Programmer I", "Software Engineer II". I think any job has some variance from the posted description.
I imagine that if you find a zipcode in the middle of nowhere, it will still tell you what you should make doing any job it tracks. It uses some strange voodoo to come up with those numbers.
Josh Miller
2008-08-25 16:47:53
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I live in an area with not that many software dev jobs (upstate new york). According to salary.com my salary has been lower than the average for the past 8 years. But according to the other software devs I know in the area (working at different places) my salary has been on the higher scale of things. So for our area at least it seems that salary.com doesn't have enough numbers and its estimates are inaccurate.
Al
2008-08-25 18:33:33
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For any UK readers there is a similar service IT Jobs Watch which has a pretty comprehensive breakdown of the salary averages
Michael OK
2008-09-06 14:09:07
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You have to remember, sites that make money on career advice, resume analysis/re-writing and "personal salary reports" are incented to make you believe that you are making less than everybody else around you. Personally, I think these sites do more harm than good by unrealistically inflating peoples' salary expectations.
JP Alioto
2009-06-30 22:37:03