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>Well, to make a long story short, one of the entries was for a "Paul
>Goodman" in the "Technical Pubs" department. He was hired on "8/11/90"
>and his salary was . . . (the envelope, please) . . . "$110,500."
I'm sure you're right that they were exhibiting fictional salaries, but for
anyone in the Silicon Valley with a scarce skill, that's not an outlandish
salary. A significant number of programmers make that much, and some of them
never wrote a line of human-readable material. :-) ...RM
Richard Mateosian Technical Writer in Berkeley CA srm -at- c2 -dot- org
