Start out salary question for San Jose area
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I am an upcoming Dec '05 grad from a top tier university with a BS in CS, and have reached the initial stages of salary negotiation with a company in San Jose. At this point, no numbers have been mentioned, but the company is asking me to fill out a form with what I have in mind. I have a rough idea with what I would make in my own area, but when I try using income conversion tools to calculate an equivalent salary in the San Jose are, the numbers are so much larger that I am skeptical about their results. Im assuming these tools account for the costs of owning a house, which to my understanding is not realistic in the San Jose area. I have also looked into different salary statistics reports for both areas, and have found these reports to be very missleading: contradictions, old data, and no clues as to what a grad from a top univerisity should expect when starting out. So, for those of you familiar with the San Jose area, what should I expect? :)
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I am an upcoming Dec '05 grad from a top tier university with a BS in CS, and have reached the initial stages of salary negotiation with a company in San Jose. At this point, no numbers have been mentioned, but the company is asking me to fill out a form with what I have in mind. I have a rough idea with what I would make in my own area, but when I try using income conversion tools to calculate an equivalent salary in the San Jose are, the numbers are so much larger that I am skeptical about their results. Im assuming these tools account for the costs of owning a house, which to my understanding is not realistic in the San Jose area. I have also looked into different salary statistics reports for both areas, and have found these reports to be very missleading: contradictions, old data, and no clues as to what a grad from a top univerisity should expect when starting out. So, for those of you familiar with the San Jose area, what should I expect? :)
KnaveR777 wrote:
for those of you familiar with the San Jose area, what should I expect?
Anything in California, with only minor exceptions is going to be higher than the national average for cost of living. Larger cities, higher still, any city with a beach, higher yet again. Rodger Wright could give you a nice long rant on it. I've turned down two jobs in my life in California, because the cost of living is so high. Even if I got a liveable wage the ratio of maximum salary for my skillset to cost of living is a low number, so net result over 20 years is savings possibilites are actually less than that of other states. A state with a higher ratio of max-pay over cost of living "can" generate more savings if you put in the effort. I "might" be able to pull a higher wage over cost of living if I tried hard, but California is not a place for me. Sure I might like a CalTech degree, it'd "look nice" on a mantle and a friend desperately wants me to go there, but I would hate living out there with every breath I took even for a couple of years. I visit San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, and other California locations once or twice a year for business... that's enough California for me most of the time. I might like to go north of San Francisco, never really been north of there, but still only for a visit. I think I was once told, take the highest number you can find anywhere else outside of California, double it, that's the cost of living in California. :omg: I would rather not pay more $$ to kill my lungs. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I am an upcoming Dec '05 grad from a top tier university with a BS in CS, and have reached the initial stages of salary negotiation with a company in San Jose. At this point, no numbers have been mentioned, but the company is asking me to fill out a form with what I have in mind. I have a rough idea with what I would make in my own area, but when I try using income conversion tools to calculate an equivalent salary in the San Jose are, the numbers are so much larger that I am skeptical about their results. Im assuming these tools account for the costs of owning a house, which to my understanding is not realistic in the San Jose area. I have also looked into different salary statistics reports for both areas, and have found these reports to be very missleading: contradictions, old data, and no clues as to what a grad from a top univerisity should expect when starting out. So, for those of you familiar with the San Jose area, what should I expect? :)
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I am an upcoming Dec '05 grad from a top tier university with a BS in CS, and have reached the initial stages of salary negotiation with a company in San Jose. At this point, no numbers have been mentioned, but the company is asking me to fill out a form with what I have in mind. I have a rough idea with what I would make in my own area, but when I try using income conversion tools to calculate an equivalent salary in the San Jose are, the numbers are so much larger that I am skeptical about their results. Im assuming these tools account for the costs of owning a house, which to my understanding is not realistic in the San Jose area. I have also looked into different salary statistics reports for both areas, and have found these reports to be very missleading: contradictions, old data, and no clues as to what a grad from a top univerisity should expect when starting out. So, for those of you familiar with the San Jose area, what should I expect? :)
Ask big, cause if you don't ask, they are not gonna give it to you :-)
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I am an upcoming Dec '05 grad from a top tier university with a BS in CS, and have reached the initial stages of salary negotiation with a company in San Jose. At this point, no numbers have been mentioned, but the company is asking me to fill out a form with what I have in mind. I have a rough idea with what I would make in my own area, but when I try using income conversion tools to calculate an equivalent salary in the San Jose are, the numbers are so much larger that I am skeptical about their results. Im assuming these tools account for the costs of owning a house, which to my understanding is not realistic in the San Jose area. I have also looked into different salary statistics reports for both areas, and have found these reports to be very missleading: contradictions, old data, and no clues as to what a grad from a top univerisity should expect when starting out. So, for those of you familiar with the San Jose area, what should I expect? :)
Just starting out in San Jose with no work experience. You could probably ask and get about $65k.
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Just starting out in San Jose with no work experience. You could probably ask and get about $65k.
Allen Anderson wrote:
Just starting out in San Jose with no work experience. You could probably ask and get about $65k.
That is good :)
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Allen Anderson wrote:
Just starting out in San Jose with no work experience. You could probably ask and get about $65k.
That is good :)
Wrong. That's barely above poverty level in San Jose!
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Wrong. That's barely above poverty level in San Jose!
ahz wrote:
Wrong. That's barely above poverty level in San Jose!
That's what they say - it's probably a lie :-)