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So I am an IT director for a company based in Phoenix, AZ. Really, I am a computer scientist would agreed to manage a team of 3 developers. I have been in charge of hiring new people for our growing business, but I am really having a hard time finding people. Not just "qualified" people, just people in general. <div><br></div><div>I live in Atlanta and work from home, but upper management wants someone on site in AZ. I have advertised on Craig's and with the LUG's in the area. At this point, is it worth my time to go to monster and all the big job sites? </div><div><br></div><div>What are your feelings on how to hire quality people in general? I am a bit unskilled in selecting the right people. I had a pipe dream that offering a job with pay of over 60K would just bring in applicants. This job is all linux all day and programming in PHP, Ruby, Python. I would jump at this job if it were me needing a gig. </div><div><br></div><div>I have also checked what the market rate for this type of job should pay. This is a really rough estimate, but what should a programmer with imperative type programming experience (2-3 years) be paid? I have friends on the Microsoft side that work as Exchange architects and they make 120K+. Is this high rate just an anomaly, or do people on the Microsoft really make that kind of coin?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Chris Kleeschulte</div><div><br></div></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>