InfoWorld 2004 Salary Survey Results

tverbeek writes "InfoWorld has released the results of their Salary Survey for 2004 [pdf], and in the intro they declare that there's less bad news and more optimism, as IT budgets and salaries in particular are starting to creep back up. So now we get to witness the curious phenomenon of Lake Anti-Wobegone, as all the techies we hear from complain that their salaries are still below 'average'."

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Re:More power to you.

[_ph1ux_]

Vincent: Want some bacon?

Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.

Vincent: Are you Jewish?

Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.

Vincent: Why not?

Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.

Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.

Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.

Jules: I don't eat dog either.

Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?

Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?

Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?

Cost of reproduction

[Baldrson]

"Living wage" is meaningless if it isn't "cost of reproductive success". For "techies we hear from" as the Slashdot authority "michael" calls us -- the cost of reproduction varies vastly by nation. When you're an Indian techie you have a variety of societal factors lowering your cost of reproduction compared to techies in the West. An Indian techie will typically have at least an offer of an arranged marriage with a woman of comparable socioeconomic and national background -- something required likely reproduction of the techie. Moreover, Indian culture is a lot more "sexist" than Western culture, rendering there less of a competition between the techie and the spouse's corporate -- not to mention governmental - harem masters that are jealous of their charges in the West. Note I use the word "sexist" advisedly due to the fact that Western culture is still highly sexist but just in a way that is more akin to Africa than even to the West of 50 years ago.

I'm not sure what the number is -- but I'm sure western techies can't compete with Indian techies when it comes to their cost of reproduction.