[ale] question about hiring developers

[Chris Fowler]

You should compare the cost of living in Phoenix Arizona.

At the current gas rate here in Atlanta, $60k could be a bit low.  
Especially if the
job requires driving into the office each an every day.  Luckily I 
stopped that madness
years ago.

I thought that if I did ever look for another job that I would do 
something radical and request compensation based on my expenses.  If 
they really want me onsite then my compensation will be higher due to 
$4/gal gas.  If I'm at home then I can pass those savings on to my 
employer.  Maybe when the employer has to pay for gas they are open to 
ways to save that money.

I don't want to upset job lookers here but what you might want to try is 
to post the job
and not post the salary.  See what hits you get and make decisions based 
on that.  If you get now hits then possibly there are no qualified 
people in Phoenix.  If you do get hits then you need to tell management 
that they need to either look for another developer in another city to 
work remote or raise their rate.


Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
> 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. 
>
> 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? 
>
> 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. 
>
> 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?
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> Chris Kleeschulte
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