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For Wink, I'll give a specific example. IT/Software/Technical Project Managers (decent ones) were going for $80-90K just a few years ago. Seems like $110-$120K is more the going rate. (For top talent - the type that would go for $150K+ in the Bay Area).
For Wink, I'll give a specific example. IT/Software/Technical Project Managers (decent ones) were going for $80-90K just a few years ago. Seems like $110-$120K is more the going rate. (For top talent - the type that would go for $150K+ in the Bay Area).
So while salaries are going down everywhere else in the country, they're going up in North Dakota and Honolulu?
Between 2007 and 2012, compensation for all private-sector occupations combined was unchanged (0.0 percent growth, as shown in Table 2), despite productivity growth of 7.7 percent. Stagnant compensation was not restricted to certain types of jobs, but was instead the norm in white-collar, blue-collar, and service jobs, with little variation among occupational categories. Among white-collar occupations, compensation remained unchanged for managers and professionals, while it declined 2.2 percent for sales jobs (which include retail sales jobs but also stock and real estate brokers, and insurance and travel agents) and increased 1.0 percent for office and administrative jobs. Among blue-collar occupations, compensation remained unchanged for construction and natural resources jobs, while it grew 1.0 percent for installation and maintenance jobs and increased 0.6 percent for production and transportation jobs. In service jobs, compensation declined by 0.4 percent.
You may be in a field where salaries are going up but on average they are stagnating, which when you consider COL increase and inflation (different things), means salaries are falling.
I really find it hard to believe that Oahu is a magical realm where this is not the case. I think it's more likely that your belief in high Oahu salaries is based on a skewed perspective from your particular field.
North Dakota is having a oil boom. But the rates quoted for ND are still cheaper than northern Virginia. I have no idea why salaries for IT folks in Honolulu were ever that low...
About anything IT security related is going through the roof right now. If you know DB security products such as Imperva, NICE, Guardium, etc., you are good for $150k to $300k. Hawaii pay does seem low on these skill sets compared to the mainland, although I have seen some upward salary movement in the last 6 months or so.
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