Is this salary alright?

[mmhtn]

Hi,

I've been offered salary of around 34000 in Southeast of Kent. I have five years of J2EE development experience mostly on BEA platform. Is this good enough or should I ask for higher?

[jjustyy]

Considering starting salary for a J2EE developer could be as low as 22-25k, this seems ok as this calculates as about 1.8k extra for each year of experience. Plus as this is south coast and not London the salary seems fine.

You may want to push for more if there are no extra incentives.

Another point: do they use the BEA software solutions etc.? If so and they are not experts you could push for more.

[ShoaibJaved]

This seems to be your second job, can you tell us what was your startin salary here.

I am looking for job and don't know what to ask for in terms of salary. I come from embedded C background.

[Alagomeji]

Shoaib, I suggest you go for a minimum of 25-30K. I am a unix sysadmin, and i don't go below 30K or £30 per hour.

[ShoaibJaved]

Thanks Alogomeji. I am looking for salary in the range from 30k to 35k. I did get a offer of 30K within three weeks after landing (unfortunately that offer was verbal and was withdrawn after three days due to some unknown buisness reasons), So I strongly believe that I am worth more than that but for starting I think i should accept anything equal or above 30K.