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culb77 t1_jbfunbu wrote

To be fair, Fairfax County is one of the highest COL places in the US, 50% more than average. The median home price is $650k. So it's not completely unreasonable that they need to raise the salary of the position to match the area.

Note: I don't live there, but have relatives who do. We considered moving there, but even making $150k per year we could not afford it. It's very expensive.

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Citizen-Kang t1_jbfuc5q wrote

That's 50% of IT work. "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?" I'm a programmer, but I can't even tell you how many times I've asked that when my folks call me about a random computer issue or my wife asks me why such and such isn't working. Most of the time, I'm not at all interested in what the actual problem is, I'm only interested in the resolution.

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