California salaries

No news yet - hoping a permanent position might be offered. My main concern: my "California salary" might prove too high for the Charlotte decision makers.

The North Carolina and Florida managers must blanch whenever looking at California salaries. From their vantage point we must be in hog heaven pulling in this kind of money. I wish.

A good part of the salary differential simply goes to taxes. You need to lop off 20% from just about any California salary to account for state and sales taxes. To get a rough idea of the cost of living factor, a San Francisco resident needs to earn $90,000 to match the $40,000 of the Charlotte employee.

Unfortunately for us, the accounting practice is cost-of-living-blind. On a company's books salary dollars are salary dollars; naturally you then hire from where the salaries are the lowest - so sorry, California and the Northeast. (Of course, with outsourcing, it's so sorry America).

So I'm still waiting. But I already know who to blame if I don't get the job - the "Golden" State.

After all, who wouldn't want me?


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