My company is starting fresh CS four-year college grads at $50,000 a year,
with a raise to 57,000 after a year. I think they don't pay much less to
start AAs. For that money they don't recruit top rated prospects.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:46 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> On 07/22/2015 01:55 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
> > City of Chandler PD is looking for 2 LAMP developers and apparently
> > are not getting a very good response either.   This is a great job
> > from what I can tell.  $70,000 or so with lots of holidays, vacation,
> > sick leave, and the best part is state retirement.
> >
> >
> > There must be a LAMP shortage hu?
> >
> I think people probably just learn to apply developer skills to more
> lucrative technologies that pay better.  If they can admin the
> Linux+Apache+Mysql of the lamp stack, they're probably qualified enough
> to get paid better as a sysadmin, and apply that development to automation.
>
> Seems most website management these days is more about knowing a cms and
> how to modify it, who actually crafts an entire site from scratch
> anymore to write the actual php?  Maybe make the role more specific to
> what you need (php, css, whatever cms you're using) and encourage
> teaching them linux as a plus.  Maybe find some asp or .net dev that
> wants to rehab their lives.
>
> -mb
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