Joel
Spolsky: "You do have to pay competitively, but all said, of all the
things that programmers look at in deciding where to work, as long as the
salaries are basically fair, they will be surprisingly low on their list
of considerations, and offering high salaries is a surprisingly
ineffective tool in overcoming problems like the fact that programmers get
15" monitors and salespeople yell at them all the time and the job
involves making nuclear weapons out of baby seals."