<story><title>Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans</title><url>http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/20/22079865/seattle-police-will-hire-programmer-and-prolific-records-requester-tim-clemans#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>&amp;gt; He&amp;#x27;ll make $22.60 an hour and start on May 6. If all goes well, Clemans will stay on as a full-time staffer.&lt;p&gt;Uh, seriously? This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML ($30&amp;#x2F;hr, and that was in the 90s)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PhasmaFelis</author><text>That is &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; not &amp;quot;routine&amp;quot; pay for high school kids writing HTML in any year. Sounds like you hit a clueless marketeer who had been huffing the dot-com bubble.&lt;p&gt;Hacker News has a disproportionate population of people who work in fields and locations where you can easily expect to make six figures straight out of college, and as a result HN has some seriously skewed ideas about how much money is &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; money. When I got my first programming job (in the mid-&amp;#x27;00s, in a town with a population of ~250,000) I made $15 an hour. I was absolutely delighted to get it, and it was enough to live well and save some money besides.&lt;p&gt;Of course, $22.60 in modern Seattle is less impressive, depending on whether he lives in the city proper or in the suburbs. But you can&amp;#x27;t expect tax-funded jobs to have the same kind of ridiculous salaries that Amazon and Google can afford to pay. And the guy&amp;#x27;s an activist. This has got to be a dream job for him--a chance to make a difference in something he&amp;#x27;s passionate about. Some things are worth more than money.</text></comment>
<story><title>Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records Requester Tim Clemans</title><url>http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/20/22079865/seattle-police-will-hire-programmer-and-prolific-records-requester-tim-clemans#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>&amp;gt; He&amp;#x27;ll make $22.60 an hour and start on May 6. If all goes well, Clemans will stay on as a full-time staffer.&lt;p&gt;Uh, seriously? This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML ($30&amp;#x2F;hr, and that was in the 90s)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnl1479</author><text>Devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here, but it is for a 90 day &amp;quot;probationary&amp;quot; period&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; initially, at least, on a three-month trial basis to work on redaction and disclosure of data.</text></comment>