[LUAU] Top 10 Best / Worst Cities For Software Developer Pay

[Jim Thompson]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Stan Baptista wrote:

>> Yet Lingle is making noise about getting Hawaii competitive,
>
> Operative word: noise.
>
>> Basically, if you don't like it, don't let the door hit your butt
>> on your way to San Francisco (or, I guess, Houston;-)
>> <expletive> that noise.  I'm here and staying.  Who the >  
>> <expletive>  are you to dismiss me?
>
> Calm down big boy.

I'm not your "boy", and I don't like your dismissive attitude.

> I'm explaining my take on the reason why wages are relatively low  
> especially since COL is so high. The dismissive attitude would be  
> on the part of those who pay the salaries that resulted in the poor  
> showing on the survey. If they cared more about whether you stayed  
> or went (as a person being paid for tech work), then the salaries  
> would be higher.

Ignoring my real issue, that Hawaii has no high-tech work-force, and  
the combination of the death of the housing boom, coupled with any  
decrease in military spending (say, when Inouye finally stops  
running) is going to be tough for the state.

Any downturn of the general economy is likely to impact Hawaii's  
technology work-force, because *so much* of what they do here is  
system administration or network administration and these will  
contract along with the non-technical workforce.  Worthy work, to be  
sure, but where are the developers?   Where are the "exports" for  
Hawaii?