How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Startup Communities

Re:How Early Exit Disease Stunts the Growth of Midwest Start... by logfromblammo on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:13PM (#10584702)

I once looked at software jobs at Indiana University a few years ago. Take a look at their current published salary docs.

Level descriptions: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/salary/level_guides/LG-IT-systd...

Salary ranges: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/salary/pa-ranges-201516.html

If you prefer not to click, I'll summarize:

  Entry level: $41-53k/yr
  Junior: $53-69k/yr
  Senior: $69-90k/yr
  Tech Manager: $90-117k/yr
  Tech Executive: $103-134k/yr

I would literally need to be the manager of an entire department to earn more there than I do now, as a lowly worker peon. In Alabama.

Every last person working there now must have already explicitly decided, "I am never, ever, ever moving anywhere else." I politely extricated myself from the interview process, offering the feedback that their salary ranges are not competitive.

The talent is available. But it just isn't going to sell itself to the lowest bidder.

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