Web programmer intern -> full time

[invidia]

I'm working as a web programmer (ASP.NET, C#, SQL, etc.) for a medium-size/national non-profit company that does consulting work. It was an internship I got a near January. It only pays 10/hr at the moment.

I'm graduating with a MS in computer engineering this semester and they are willing to offer me a job. The cost of living is very, very low here (35k a year is more than enough to get by) How much should I expect? Since they're a non-profit company, will it be lower than the average?

 

[SJP0tato]

It's impossible to tell what they might offer because of market and/or internal company conditions.

Do your research, and find out what a reasonable offer for your education/experience would be and be prepared to negotiate to get what you feel you deserve. A good point to negotiate would be the company not needing to train a replacement were they to hire from outside.

 

[presidentender]

Originally posted by: invidia
I'm working as a web programmer (ASP.NET, C#, SQL, etc.) for a medium-size/national non-profit company that does consulting work. It was an internship I got a near January. It only pays 10/hr at the moment.

I'm graduating with a MS in computer engineering this semester and they are willing to offer me a job. The cost of living is very, very low here (35k a year is more than enough to get by) How much should I expect? Since they're a non-profit company, will it be lower than the average?

I'm in almost exactly the same boat, except that I'm writing windows forms instead of web pages. Similar pay and area cost of living, but I'll be getting my BS in May, not an MS, and this is a private consulting outfit. So... if you negotiate first, let me know what you get, and vice-versa. Your degree means you should get a little more than what I end up with.

 

[KB]

Try to research salaries in your area. One way to do that is visit www.salary.com and enter your job title/zip code. It will give you a base salary report in the form of a bell curve. Because they are non-profit you should expect a salary within the 25 - 50% area of the graph. Due to the bad economy they may try to take a little more off that too.

 

[invidia]

Originally posted by: KB
Try to research salaries in your area. One way to do that is visit www.salary.com and enter your job title/zip code. It will give you a base salary report in the form of a bell curve. Because they are non-profit you should expect a salary within the 25 - 50% area of the graph. Due to the bad economy they may try to take a little more off that too.

Thanks, the closest one that came up was "web software developer" with a 49k-70k range.

I was looking for 45k which may of been undercutting myself since I will have 2 internships and a MS by graduation.

I'm not quite sure what to refer myself as: web programmer? web developer? or if they're pretty much the same thing. My previous internship was pretty much the same thing, VB.NET, SQL, and ASP.NET. Now it's C# instead of VB.NET on 3.5 instead of 2.0.