SPUG: How to make a living with perl(.|?)

[Jonathan Souza]

I am exactly in your situation.  I have a CS degree and 1 year of 
experience with Perl and I am coming up on my review.  Two years ago, 1 
past when I graduated, the average starting salary of a Western CS major 
was $46K so that was what I asked for and I got $47K.

All my college CS roommates (BSquared, Weyerhauser, AT&T wireless) all 
got similiar offers at the time BSquared used C++ (now C#), Weyerhauser 
C, AT&T Smalltalk and all of them have received a end of year bonus or a 
pay raise since.

I went to "Ask Jeeves" and I got a low, med, high salary for "Software 
Engineer", which is my title for the West Coast, low was $64K.  I feel 
that I am worth at least $5k - $10K more per year now, especially since 
I am an employee and they did not have to pay the extra contrator fees 
for me.

Adam Monsen wrote:

> My 1-year review is coming up, and I wanted to start a candid 
> conversation on salaries (somewhat in jest, but truly in search of 
> wisdom). Here's how I determine what I ask for. Please post a similar 
> entry of anything you feel comfortable sharing.
> 
> %current_job = (
>  position => 'Perl Programmer, Seattle, WA, USA',
>  salary   => '35-45k/yr'
> );
> 
> @sites = qw( www.salary.com www.dice.com );
> 
> @ref_points = map { LWP::Simple->get("${_}?job=perl") } @sites;
> 
> $salary = ( make_offer(@ref_points) - $bosses_cutoff );
> 
> warn "Grin and bear it";
> 
> return 'to work';
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Jonathan Souza
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