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Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

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Re: Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

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Post by skavish »

cousin_it wrote: post #11

Wow, just wow. I live in Moscow and earn about 30K a year. 25 years old, 10 of them coding for money. Maths degree.

My guess is that after taxes, but in the US they are usually talking about salary before taxex. So basically your $30K is about $40K here.

Re: Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

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Post by hsu »

csmajorfive wrote: post #21
cstejerean wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raises? It's called changing jobs.

I'm not sure what you're getting at -- should I change jobs when I feel like I'm due a better salary? Even if the job is awesome?

I've been working for over 10 years, and I've found that most companies offer 2% - 5% raises, a little more if you are a super employee. The only ways to get more than a 10% raise are to change jobs or to use another job offer as a means to extract a counter offer from your current employer.

Re: Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

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Post by cperciva »

hugh wrote: post #55
cperciva wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't seen anyone even suggest less than $100k for a newly minted doctorate in CS from a good university, and I've seen numbers in the $120k - $140k range thrown around. It sounds like East Coast hedge funds are even more generous.

Wow, way to make me feel bad for being a postdoc! :( (Computational physics, not CS, but still...)

I worked as a postdoc for a while, too. The lower salary is the price to pay for having more freedom in our research (and freedom to publish). :-)

Re: Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

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Post by goofygrin »

phaedrus wrote: post #25

In Oklahoma it seems to be more like $40K. :( When I went to make some job applications, I realized none of my professors gave any of the new CS graduates any advice on what salary to ask for. It's a moot point because I'm not convinced there are any CS jobs out here. I'm graduating top in my class, have 3 years experience working at a (folded) software development startup, and I've even done a NASA intership - and e…

There are a plethora of IT jobs in Tulsa and OKC. I know that where I'm consulting right now, one company they work with out of Tulsa likes to bring guys from Tulsa, pay them Tulsa salary and bill them at Dallas rates.

Now, the work likely isn't sexy. Look at the medical and oil/gas industry and start applying there.

And College doesn't teach you how to work in the real world. Why would you trust one of your college professors, who likely haven't worked at a "real" job in 20 years, with any advice relating to salary or real world type work?

Re: Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

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Post by goofygrin »

fishhead wrote: post #65

dallas 65

I think that's likely high (I'm in Dallas and have some experience in the last couple years with recruiting college people).

I'd say the average is around 50k, only people with real experience getting more than that. Some companies are paying higher, but they are turning around and billing them out at a stupid high rate (EDS I'm looking at you).

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