Posts tagged Spokane

Too much damn snow: Season 2

Dec 27th

Posted by scott in Spokane

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Last year I posted a blog entry about how much snow fell in Spokane in January.  Well, this is December and it snowed a lot more than last year (over 36 inches in a week).  That’s just too much damn snow to fall in just one week.  This year I thought I would be more prepared for this much snow, but my preparations have not been perfect.  For example, I made sure the snow blower was working properly at the beginning of the season, but I managed to break the clutch cable.  The other major thing I have this winter is the Subaru with all-wheel drive, but despite it’s snow going ability, I managed to get it stuck in a snowbank coming off 29th avenue.  With the help of a nearby neighbor and some passers-by on snowshoes, we freed the car from the snowbank.  Tomorrow, I am returning to the now snow-free streets of Seattle.

Spokane Salaries: Why so low?

Jul 16th

Posted by scott in PHP

I recently came across a problem. I was really in need of consulting with a qualified PHP/MySQL developer close to home to discuss a problem that I needed to solve. I only know of one in the area and it got me thinking about where these mid-career professionals might be. Did these qualified developers leave the area?

So I started thinking about salaries. The bulk of my work comes from Seattle, so for me personally this is not a concern, but what about the people here who work for a Spokane-based employer? I went to payscale.com to get some salary comparisons, not just between Seattle and Spokane, but also from cities closer in population to Spokane.

When I did a search on software developer salaries between Spokane, Boise and Seattle, I found that salaries are significantly lower for software developers in Spokane. This could be why there’s few qualified software developers in the area. Read the rest of this entry »