Re: Salary Quest: Re: Postition Available: Director ofInstructionalLaboratories

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I think Rick exaggerates -- looking at the Chron's section H (real estate) 21
April (more recent were ersatz fire wood).  I find the San Jose high median,
n=67, (they're by ~ 20 zips) $645k (in 95120, high ~ $2.1m)  Low median,
n=23, $297k (95133, the highest, $540k)   One may obtain an idea of the size
by the median $/squarefeet --  $240 for 95133.

If your interested in houses for Plutocrats:  95070 (Saratoga), n=39  $1.07m
high $2.85 ($701/sq.ft.)

In Contra Costa county (East Bay - Bay Area Rapid Transit commute)  the low
is all of Richmond (site of the largest oil refinery on the West Coast!  --
SO2 "spills" several times a year)  ~ 70 homes ~ $220k.

Typical (average) Moraga  (where my cousin lives and near the end of the BART
line), n=21, $575k, highest: $1.065m

Curiously, no matrix for Alameda (Oakland) counties.  In the classified,
seven homes listed for SF (explains why SF is one of the more expensive
places to live in the US.)  Only three give asking prices: the Visitation
Valley neighborhood (not as bad as Richmond) and one in the Avenues .  The
Pacific Heights (where the Sutros, Fleishhackers, et al. live when not at
their summer homes down the coast in San Mateo county) and the Parkside don't
give a $$.  If you need to know you can't afford it..  The VisVly are both
$499k.  The one on 33rd Ave.:   2br + pnths + in law vac. 3-gar.  a steal at
$738k!

bc



Rick Tarara wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Fanetti" <FanettT@QUEST.WITCC.CC.IA.US>
> To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Salary Quest: Re: Postition Available: Director of
> InstructionalLaboratories
>
> > I knew it.  I am being robbed.  I am working for peanuts.
> >
> > Tina
>
> Yes and no.  You are probably not being paid what you're worth, but if we
> measure 'fair-pay' by the salaries of professional athletes.........  I'll
> bet you can find a house in your area for under $100,000 and a damn nice
> house for under $200,000.  On either coast, these same houses would run up
> to 10x more.  Tuition and/or tax support for your school is probably
> reasonably low.  It is difficult for a school that can't offer a starting
> Ph.D. over $40,000 (often much less) to pay staff what they deserve.  I'm
> sure most of us with doctorates, at least early in our careers, have seen
> undergraduates go out into jobs at starting salaries above ours.  It's a
> free market thing--learn to live with it or find another career--like
> pitching for the NY Yankees!  ;-)
>
> Rick
>
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