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I'm in the process of negotiating a raise with my employer, and he's being
very good about the whole thing. The negotiations are very amicable, and I'm
not out to screw him over by seeking the highest salary possible, etc. The
problem is, we are having a hard time determining a "fair" or normal salary
for a technical writer in the Central Valley. (For those of you not from
California, the Central Valley is the area from about Modesto to
Bakersfield.) I tried to use the figures from www.salary.com, but the
numbers they have seem quite high for this area of the state, and I'm not
sure their information is very reliable because they use a small number of
respondents. Plus, it is not very clear how they correlate or validate the
salary information they have received.
I was going to use the STC figures, but their salary information seems to
focus more on the Bay Area (San Francisco/San Jose). For example, the prefix
for the zip code in which I reside is not even listed.
Can anybody point me to a resource on the Internet that identifes the
percentage drop in salary from the Bay Area to the Central Valley? I realize
the cost of living is about twice as much, but the salaries aren't.
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