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To: Mark Finger who wrote (12009)	10/2/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

>>> the College of Engineering. I stand partially corrected. That is not, of course, the college you originally said it was in. Alas about the dates, since those are the point at issue. >>>For the average starting salaries for college graduates by profession, you might bother to read newspapers (you know, those that are printed in black ink on large cheap white paper sheets) or magazines (these are usually smaller, around 8.5 x 11, printed partially in color, on better grade paper) each year in May or June when they analyze the prospects of that year's graduating class. A list of the top salary averages is usually part of each such article. <<< Why thank you. I seem to have some such vague recollection. I have been forced to rely on my own history and that of fellow engineers, and such debased sources of information as the census, IEEE and ACM reports, etc. Clearly inferior to those newpaper articles about starting salaries (were we talking about starting salaries of chem engineers, BTW, or the amount of reduction in pay an experienced programmer might expect over the years? I had thought the latter. Too bad you didn't memorize those, but memorized the chem engineer salaries instead :-) Since you have a clear memory of these newspaper articles, perhaps you would share the exact figures with us? Inflation adjusted, if you please. I know the anecdotal information is not much use to you, as by your own admission you are not a hard-core old time programmer or a CS grad, and so have none of your own to compare it to. So provide us with numbers, please, if you have any. Checkable facts, not just insults. TIA. Cheers, Chaz