Re: Flame on low-ball job offers

At 07:36 PM 4/17/97 GMT, you wrote: >It was only 2-3 months ago that I saw an ad in Baltimore Newspaper >that had something in it like this. . . > > Database developer needed. Masters degree required. 5 years > experience in SQL database developement, C, knowledge of TCP/IP, > . . .. plus a lot of other stuff. > Salary $38,000/year. > >This was for some government agency. That I don't remember. > <snip> Another explaination is that they already have somebody on staff that is trying to get on permanent, who has worked there for 5 years, works with this stuff everyday, and their starting salary 5 years ago was 38,000. Unfortunately, gov't agencies have to jump through so many hoops to hire somebody, conversely in private sector, you just hire somebody.