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Subject:Re: quoting salary schedule from STC From:Kimberly Freistuhler <k_freistuhler -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:32:11 -0700
The STC rates are also quite low for the project I'm on too...in
Mississippi. I agree with Elna that headhunters are a much better
source of rates--as are colleagues.
---Elna Tymes <etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM> wrote:
>
> Melissa >
> > Do many of you quote STC salary schedule when it comes time for
> > raise/promotion time?
> >
> Never, never, never! The STC salary rates are unbelievably low for
> Silicon Valley, and pretty far off the mark for most of California and
> Washington state. Around here you get a much better sense of going
rates
> by talking with headhunters, who after all are attuned to what the
> market is willing to pay.
>
> Elna Tymes
> Los Trancos Systems
>
==
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