| Totally agree with California companies having a problem with sticker shock from potential employees. A guy that got his PhD in the lab I was working in last year was offered a position at a national lab in California. They offered him somewhere around $90k as a post-doc. He got a job off for around $80k to stay in Pittsburgh. He wouldn't even have been able to afford renting a nice apartment for the same price he'd pay on a mortgage for the house his wife wanted to build in the Pittsburgh area. It was a fairly easy choice for him to make (especially since both of their families were in from PA). |