[1st-mile-nm] Hiring: Technology and Network Coordinator at UNM

[Bob Knight]

24 years ago I hired a systems programmer at NM Tech for (IIRC) $29K per 
year. Granted, he had a MS in Computer Science, but it still was 
essentially an entry-level hire. All of what you say is true regarding 
UNM's perks, but Tech's a state institution with similar, if not better, 
benefits. I still maintain that the salary range is very low given the 
job description.

Bob


Marianne Granoff wrote:
> I have refrained from joining this discussion, but now I think I must.  
> UNM offers a few perks that many/most commercial companies don't:
> 
> lots of paid vacation upon starting.
> free tuition for UNM classes, dependents get free tuition after employee 
> has completed first year of work.
> good health insurance.
> reasonable parking.
> full-time work with full benefits and _stability.
> _opportunities for advancement.
> interesting and challenging work
> current equipment
> pleasant and interesting with which to work
> excellent retirement plan
> 
> How many commercial companies compare with that these days?
> When was the last time you folks looked for a job in Albuquerque?
> 
> My two cents.
> 
> Marianne
> 
> At 12:43 PM 9/18/2009 -0400, Steve Ross wrote:
>> An odd digression. The salary is 'way below market rate for
>> the job description. So either UNM gets a good hire who's
>> temporarily out of work and will jump ASAP (expensive for
>> the university in the long run), or a non-US resident
>> desperate for any US job (of course, lowballing the salary
>> to discourage US citizens or residents is illegal but hard
>> to prove... good ethics lesson for the kids and a good case
>> study for the america-firsters), or a below-average or
>> hard-to-manage employee with all kinds of hidden costs.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> Dale Carstensen wrote:
>> > Come on, folks, the almighty dollar isn't everything.  You sound like
>> > so many here in Los Alamos.  The aggregate "we" of Los Alamos seem to
>> > need everything in the gold, platinum, diamond, first-class option (I'm
>> > not very comfortable lately being part of that "we".)  Oh, and
>> > perfectly green, too, even if we have to waste precious desert water
>> > to make the literally green grass.  We claim we'll do everything
>> > LEED-style, while demolishing useful houses and hauling the materials
>> > to our landfill -- oh, wait, we had to close that and will now be
>> > hauling trash to, oh, I don't know, Rio Rancho, Los Lunas (why is
>> > a Spanish word ending in "a" masculine??), somewhere we can get to
>> > by polluting and burning lots of carbonaceous fuel.
>> >
>> > Sure, Bill Gates has a gazil-whatever square foot house on a lake
>> > with oodles of acres around it, but Warren Buffet lives on a fraction
>> > of an acre in a house that cost under $500,000 when it was built, and
>> > suffers the embarassment of living over 20 miles from an ocean.  They
>> > swap which is number 1 and number 2 in the world's richest category.
>> > President Obama's mother produced a president while she was a single mom
>> > deserted by his father and part of the time on welfare, and never
>> > saw any offer anywhere near $2,915 per month.  Who should the world
>> > admire?  How about Muhammed Yunus from Bengladesh who won a Nobel Peace
>> > Prize for his micro-loan idea?
>> >
>> > The more UNM spends on salaries, the more students have to pay in
>> > tuition.  The President of UNM certainly has an obscenely bloated
>> > salary, when seen in that perspective.
>> >
>> > Another hint, watch out for buildings that cost $500+ per square foot
>> > to build, too!  But I suppose that's so the lowly carpenter, mason,
>> > plumber, electrician, etc. avoids suffering with too little in pay, too.
>> > Not to mention the architect.
>> >
>> >   Dale
>> >
>> >
>> >> How sad that the central font of our states knowledge does not " GET "
>> >> what the possibilities of technological knowledge and the people in the
>> >> system are all about and what does that say about the "mindset " of its
>> >> administration.
>> >>
>> >> Come on UNM you can do BETTER
>> >>
>> >> You get what you pay for indeed
>> >>
>> >> ) : ) : pete
>> >>
>> >> Steve Ross wrote:
>> >> And they will get what they pay for -- a low-level technician.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Steven S. Ross
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>> >>
>> >> Bob Knight wrote:
>> >> $36K-$45K per year for what they expect of this person strikes me as
>> >> approaching exploitation.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for going off-topic a bit, but I had to comment.
>> >>
>> >> Bob
>> >>
>> >> Richard Lowenberg wrote:
>> >> Date: 9/17/2009
>> >> Subject: Hiring a Technology and Network Coordinator at U New Mexico
>> >> Please pass this job posting on to your networks and lists:
>> >> ...
>> >> Salary: $2,915.41 - $3,666.67 monthly
>> >
>> >
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