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Don?t Forget Taxes When Weighing Job Options

By rfording

When Jeff asked me to guest blog for Voir Dire, I decided that my first post would be the recent article by Jalbert, et al, which ranks university salary packages after adjusting for the local cost of living. Of course, Andy beat me to the punch on that, but after reading the article more closely I realized that perhaps there is more to think about here. The auhors report that their cost of living data come from Yahoo, through Sperling's Best Places. While the measure seems reasonable, like nearly every other local COL index it does not consider state and local taxes. This can matter a lot for your bottom line.

Full post as published by Voir Dire on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).