Where can I find average salaries for jobs?

[jspeicher]

Need to find average starting salaries for different careers.

 

[Jay59express]

salary.com

 

[jspeicher]

thanks, yea I just found that myself. Help Desk Support in my aread (IT) is around 35k, not bad

 

[Nanotech]

Salary.com seems to come in awfully high which may or may not be so bad. I remember I pretty accurate one that was more government stats. Let me see if I can't find that for you.

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[rh71]

^ what good is that to those who don't work for the gov't and aren't "GS-rated" ?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: rh71
^ what good is that to those who don't work for the gov't and aren't "GS-rated" ?

Salary.com has been reported to be inflated.

The goverment stats are not for Gov jobs.

 

[Nanotech]

Originally posted by: rh71
^ what good is that to those who don't work for the gov't and aren't "GS-rated" ?

Because the gov't keeps tabs on much more than just the gov't! Although I didn't look at that site very closely and I couldn't find the orginal one I was looking for so I can't really comment on its contents.

 

[LS20]

bureau of labor statistics
http://www.bls.gov/

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: rh71
^ what good is that to those who don't work for the gov't and aren't "GS-rated" ?

Salary.com has been reported to be inflated.

The goverment stats are not for Gov jobs.

hmm... can you link a page there that shows salary for any common IT job ? I'm still seeing Grades and Steps, which don't correlate to anything in "our" world.

 

[SethK28]

monster

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: rh71
^ what good is that to those who don't work for the gov't and aren't "GS-rated" ?

Salary.com has been reported to be inflated.

The goverment stats are not for Gov jobs.

hmm... can you link a page there that shows salary for any common IT job ? I'm still seeing Grades and Steps, which don't correlate to anything in "our" world.

Your answer is in the post above yours.

 

[Nanotech]

Originally posted by: LS20
bureau of labor statistics
http://www.bls.gov/

That's what I was originally looking for! Thanks, good post!

 

[Dracos]

Isn't monster's powered by salary.com?

 

[Mallow]

yay, the profession I want to go into has an median salary of $259,000 in my area Hopefully I'll get closer to the $300K mark

Anesthesiologist.

 

[Drakkon]

salary.com seems to be ohkay for when salaries are pretty much falling all around one general area but for computer related jobs or technical jobs moreso everything is too inflated on there. Its like theres a ton of low salaries putting it into the lower bracket and then a few higher salaries that are even making it more disproportionate. The percentiles help in some case but kill ya in others.
I'd also take a look at dice.com they have a lot of reports and stats as to what people make based on years of experience.
The final one i know of is salaryexpert.com who has similarly inflated figures as salary.com i think
I dunno its hard to argue with a manager that has a degree in statistics for a higher salary when none of these sites gives an accurate representation of "average" with mean/median/mode/range/etc

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Nanotech
Salary.com seems to come in awfully high which may or may not be so bad. I remember I pretty accurate one that was more government stats. Let me see if I can't find that for you.

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I've heard people say Salary.com is way high, and I've heard people say they are way low.
For my salary.com job title, Software Engineer II, the salary.com range is almost exactly the same as my company's range for the position.

You need to remember though that when salary.com gives you a number for a position in a certain location, they do NOT actually gather salary data for the specific position in that specific area.
The way they come up with their numbers is that they do surveys and get a national average for a particular position. When you enter a certain geographic area, they adjust that national average number based on what the average difference in pay is for that area.

So it really doesn't take supply and demand into account at all.
For instance, during the dot com boom, the average pay of workers in silicon valley might have been 20% higher than the national average. So salary.com might have shown the wage for a software engineer in silicon valley as 20% higher. But in reality, software engineers in silicon valley might have actually made 50% more than those living in other areas.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Dracos
Isn't monster's powered by salary.com?

Yes.

I can't remember what it is, but something like NACE?? National Association of College something.
They publish a report each year of what the average starting salary was for new college grads in different areas. You have to pay if you want the full report, but if you search around, there are lots of articles that summarize the results.