Comparable salaries for Linux people?

[Doug]

Hello Rich:

The marketplace is telling you to bump these people's salaries.  I
would do this experimentally: bump them all up $10k and see if you get
more interest and then retain them.  There is also the issue of what
the company does, and how it affects retention.  If you are losing out
to companies with "better" name recognition, retaining quality folks
may cost more $'s.  If HR cannot fill the seats at the salary they are
offering, the company must bump up salaries or will lose revenue
because there are not the people to do the work.

Doug