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Salary for entry-level tech position

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DonIsHere

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I am applying for an entry-level Web Developer Analyst position for a new college graduate. One of the questions I'm running into is asking what my minimum salary requirements are.

I have no idea how much entry-level Web Developer Analysts go for these days.

Can anyone help me out?

thanks,
don
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
It depends heavily on the company. I'm thinking $30-35k...
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This is probably a good range to consider first. Not sure about your location, but here where I live this seems in line with what I've heard.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: CrazyDe1 salary.com usually if a position is NCG, they'll pay you 48-55k
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Except goodluck getting an entry level job paying that these days!
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Very true!

The jobs paying 50k 2 years ago are now in the 30-35k range in many fields. After I get laid off a week after 9/11, it took me 8 months to get a new job and it was a $6/hr pay cut, plus I had to accept a part-time position just to get work at all.
 
I made $12 a hour at my first "real" job as an intern at a web company. I soon graduated upto $15 an hour, then got a raise to my current $16.50 an hour. I'm in Alaska, so cost of living is pretty high here. I've heard of people starting out making like $7-8 an hour...:Q

Jugs
 
As a new college graduate your worries should be more then just the salary. You should be more worried about the kind of work and the company you are going to be working with. Just say that you expect to make around mid 30's + benefits, and you would like to discuss this further during the interview.
 
good luck in trying to find a job. all those entry level jobs are being taken by guys w/a few years of experience.

so my answer for salary would be free. volunteer your skills at a non-profit to get some experience
 
If I were hiring, which I'm not, it would pay in the $20,000 range - NYC. There are a LOT of good people with experience who will work for that little. Scary.
 
RUN!!!

Portland has nothing but tax free CostCo's, rain and Quizno's

Oh yeah and I live here as well.

😛
 
Originally posted by: sciencetoy
If I were hiring, which I'm not, it would pay in the $20,000 range - NYC. There are a LOT of good people with experience who will work for that little. Scary.
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More like digusting, it's even hard to find "hard labor" jobs now.
 
Go somewhere like brilliantpeople.com and look up spec work. You will always make more money working for yourself than for other people. If you are really interested in making money for someone else, post up on the job boards and be prepared to pack up and move to the place that suits you best salary-wise.

My company currently employs three web designers. Two of them are making 60k, and the third (entry-level) is making 38. But all of them had to move 1300 miles to work here.
 
I'd throw in ~$35k-$38k ... don't want to go too high seeing that you are most likely up against many others who would take even less.
 
I agree with what is being said...unless you are a genius, have some skill that no one else knows and is in great demand, or have massive amounts of real world experience and tons of certs then I would not expect much...

every recruiter I have talked to basically says if you are in the tech industry, at least around here and in DC where I worked before you are SOL if you don't already have a job...

I was making 51K at my old job as a project lead/service manager for the govt....but since I left that job even with my experience I was looking at jobs that mostly paid $15/hr...I ended up taking a job for $17 an hour which translated into 35K/year which is over a 15K/year paycut...ouch, eventually since I got a better offer I renegotiated to over $20/hour which isn't as bad but still alot less than before....stinks because I only renegotiated and stayed since I worked with a bigger company, thought they were going to keep me on the contract and it would be better for my resume, to my dismay they moved me off of the contract and almost let me go...luckily they had an opening on another contract and moved me there...the work is rather bland but heck it is a paycheck and even though I don't like it, it is better than working at Walmart or Target.

If you do look into contract work look at the company that wants to contract you out, I am a contractor for IBM and personally I hate it, they treat their full time employees pretty well but they treat their contractors like second class citizens...every other firm I contracted for was great, it was like being part of the team even though you were only temp help...with IBM they make sure you know at every second that you are only a contractor and mean very little to them, especially in this econ....I always wondered why some others didn't like them and now I know.

Good luck.
 
Originally posted by: bozack
I agree with what is being said...unless you are a genius, have some skill that no one else knows and is in great demand, or have massive amounts of real world experience and tons of certs then I would not expect much...

every recruiter I have talked to basically says if you are in the tech industry, at least around here and in DC where I worked before you are SOL if you don't already have a job...

I was making 51K at my old job as a project lead/service manager for the govt....but since I left that job even with my experience I was looking at jobs that mostly paid $15/hr...I ended up taking a job for $17 an hour which translated into 35K/year which is over a 15K/year paycut...ouch, eventually since I got a better offer I renegotiated to over $20/hour which isn't as bad but still alot less than before....stinks because I only renegotiated and stayed since I worked with a bigger company, thought they were going to keep me on the contract and it would be better for my resume, to my dismay they moved me off of the contract and almost let me go...luckily they had an opening on another contract and moved me there...the work is rather bland but heck it is a paycheck and even though I don't like it, it is better than working at Walmart or Target.

If you do look into contract work look at the company that wants to contract you out, I am a contractor for IBM and personally I hate it, they treat their full time employees pretty well but they treat their contractors like second class citizens...every other firm I contracted for was great, it was like being part of the team even though you were only temp help...with IBM they make sure you know at every second that you are only a contractor and mean very little to them, especially in this econ....I always wondered why some others didn't like them and now I know.

Good luck.
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Most larger companies I know treat their contractors that way.

 
Descartes, can you give me a list of those companies so I know not to do any contract work with them??

I have done contract work now with a total of three agencys...a small firm in DC that was wonderful, a fortune 500 company SAIC and finally IBM...of the three IBM is definately the worst, bth PRISM and SAIC were exceptionally good to their contractors, in return they got higher quality work..also the last company I was working at for IBM (Astra Zeneca) had their own contractors to which they were exceptionally nice and treated very fairly, which was pretty upsetting as I worked directly with those contractors and they often talked of how good their companies were where as I had to deal with IBM and their sub par treatment. As I mentioned before I also had the oppertunity to leave IBM and work for another contracting firm, and even on the interview I could tell by the other contractors on site that they were a much happier bunch and that the company treated them better, I still regret not taking that offer to this day.

I have yet to meet anyone in the industry who has worked as a contractor and was segregated as much as IBM segregates their contractors...the only people I have heard this complaint from was other IBM contractors...but then again I have not worked with many firms and most of the people I know work for smaller or generally better firms than companies like IBM.
 
friend of mine got an entry-level job that pays ~60 in houston. no one wants to work in oil exploration these days, so the companys that do it pay some big $$$. and houston is a dirt cheap place to live
 
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