>Remind me not to emigrate to Canada :-)
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>A close friend of mine is an IT recruiter. She finds that your average, run-of-the-mill VFP position goes from high-30Ks to about 50K max. However, for every ten of those, there is one offer where extreme experience is required and the starting low point for those positions is about $75K.

I had less than one year VFP experience when a local Air shipping company (I answered an ad in the paper) offered me 55K. I turned it down.

You can raise your worth significantly having a broad base of knowledge in the software development arena.

25K is an insult in anything but the smallest of towns in the US. Someone should tell that employer that he is offering below the unspoken minimum wage. Better yet, I hope he gets what he pays for.