Comparable salaries for Linux people?

[Ward Vandewege]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:45:58AM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> As y'all know I've often posted here looking for staff.  At the moment I have
> 5 open positions (no, I am not looking for a ton of recruiter calls!).
> 
> One of the reasons I have these openings is growth of the project.  I'm
> posting about the other reason:  a non-stop onslaught of poaching by
> high-paying firms in the area; I've lost 3 of my best people in the past 8
> months.  All of them found greener pastures not far from my Kendall Square
> office.
> 
> I'm starting to believe my HR department is getting tremendously incorrect
> salary-comparison data and that 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for
> tech compensation at least for Linux people in greater Boston.  Where can I
> turn for real data about what the likes of Microsoft, Google, MIT/Harvard,

Harvard:

  http://www.employment.harvard.edu/ 

Do a keyword search for things relevant to your jobs, and look up the pay
scale here

  http://www.employment.harvard.edu/benefits/compensation/index.shtml

MIT:

    http://hrweb.mit.edu/staffing/

and

  http://web.mit.edu/hr/compensation/salary_admin.html

Thanks,
Ward.

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