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Old 05-13-2013, 01:46 PM  
edgeprod
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Originally Posted by bossku69 View Post
Good luck! Good programmers are hard to come by.

No offense, but even at $100k you are on the low end for a "high level" programmer, let along someone that would be willing to relocate. I have a number of friends who are developers, some are insanely good and wouldn't take anything less than $200k to relocate. Just my 2cents, but hope you get someone good!
That was my initial thought as well, but then I thought about some of the senior guys I know who are only making $165k-$180k due to all of the other talent available (job losses) .. and if they lost their jobs, might jump at $100k just to keep from being underwater.

Also, for some, $100k of stable money would be a lot better than a good salary that's more speculative.

The unfortunate part is that it's difficult for non-programmers to be able to tell the senior-level guys from the junior-level guys .. especially since the need for senior-level might be in architecture, not in execution, or in test coverage, not in ongoing maintenance, etc. Different strokes, and all that.
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