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Allow me to clarify. Qualified candidates that we interviewed. The same with my sister’s case.</p>
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This is true.</p>
<p>The reason why I said the current salary trend has been going down is 10 years ago the City of LA would start fresh CE graduates at 48k (according to my boss). Assuming COLA/inflation of 3% per year (which I think is way too low), 2 years ago they should’ve started fresh CE graduates at 60k, which was not the case. They started at 55k instead.
Remember, 2 years ago was the peak of the housing bubble, that no one expected it would burst soon, and salary was that low.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it might be true that this problem is localized.</p>