Comparable salaries for Linux people?

[greg-SfI3QVg0eaJl57MIdRCFDg at public.gmane.org (Greg Rundlett (freephile))]

I know SAGE has a salary survey, which I assume to be good, but I don't have
access to it.

I generally find the Robert Half Salary Guide (free) rhi.com to be useful
and reliable.  It breaks things down pretty well in greater detail for the
technical job roles and seems to corroborate what I've seen personally and
also heard from recruiters.

Thanks for the tip on glassdoor.com

salary.com seems less and less useful as time goes by because it's a PITA to
actually get accurate / relevant info from.

There is also US Bureau of Labor and Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/ro1/news.htm#wages which by their very nature has the
most data.

http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl1273.txt

    Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly,
weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours,
Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA, October 2008  *
* * Hourly earnings(3) * *Weekly earnings(4)* *
* *Annual earnings(5) * *
*  *Occupation(2)* *Mean* *Median* *Mean* *Median* *Mean Weekly hrs.* *Mean*
*Median* *Mean Annual Hrs.*  Computer and mathematical science occupations
$41.78 $41.88 $1,665 $1,638 39.9 $86,409 $84,852 2,068  Computer programmers
$30.29 $34.08 $1,191 $1,327 39.3 $61,921 $69,000 2,044  Computer software
engineers $48.88 $46.39 $1,973 $1,837 40.4 $102,605 $95,524 2,099  Computer
software engineers, applications $52.97 $49.49 $2,177 $1,964 41.1 $113,204
$102,151 2,137  Computer software engineers, systems software $46.05 $45.56
$1,837 $1,821 39.9 $95,499 $94,700 2,074  Computer support specialists
$33.98 $31.25 $1,344 $1,250 39.6 $69,882 $65,000 2,057  Computer systems
analysts $41.36 $40.12 $1,656 $1,583 40 $86,111 $82,299 2,082  Network and
computer systems administrators $41.66 $45.11 $1,678 $1,804 40.3 $87,251
$93,829 2,094








  1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time
schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore,
a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time
employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another
firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule.
2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information.
3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees.
They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard
pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays,
nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of
all
workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See
appendix A for more information.
4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid
to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week,
exclusive of overtime.
5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid
to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half
of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual
hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year,
exclusive of overtime.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey

When filing a job, ask the bazillion recruiters who call what salary they
just placed a similar candidate at.  They are the ones who are doing this
daily in your market -- supposedly with the talent you are looking for.  I
was able to get some good information that way -- although at the same time
the candidates that recruiters were sending me were NOT as qualified as the
people that I was sourcing through craigslist etc.

Greg Rundlett