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A friend of mine just took a menial enterprise programming job (in Pittsburgh) that is paying 55k. And I mean menial, it's converting legacy systems from Cobol to Java.
Just write a cobol to java compiler and be done with it.
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for a salary of $40K the taxes would be around 20-30% in the US depending on your family situation
Total taxes in the US on a $40K salary for a single person with no other income and no other deductions: about $4,200 (10.5%). The marginal tax rate is higher, of course, and state taxes will add a little, but not too much.
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Total taxes in the US on a $40K salary for a single person with no other income and no other deductions: about $4,200 (10.5%). The marginal tax rate is higher, of course, and state taxes will add a little, but not too much.
haha I actually make 40K... i think its significantly higher than that. All told I think i'll be paying around 12K. (MI.)
For anyone wondering the other question, what about salaries for experienced developers, keep in mind the numbers others are sharing here are just what was asked for, -starting- salaries. After a few years, the salaries are much higher, but still under $150K. $130K plus options is pretty standard in the West Coast for an experienced developer with or without any degree. Seems to have jumped up some in the last couple…
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haha I actually make 40K... i think its significantly higher than that. All told I think i'll be paying around 12K. (MI.)
If you only make $40k and are paying 30% in taxes, you're doing something very wrong.
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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).
I'd agree, the average is 50 but any decent grad should be able to grab 60-65
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Moscow's supposed to be about as expensive to live in as the Bay Area or Manhattan from what I've read. Rents here in the Bay area are around $1400 for a 1 bedroom apartment. What are they in Moscow?
I pay around $1300 for a 1 bedroom apartment. This is a bit on the high side, but I like living in the city center, in summer it's almost European.
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That $5-10k delta could be made up within a year or two for a good developer coming from a non-namebrand CS school who puts his/her nose to the grindstone.
That is true. Good engineers will always rise above the bad ones, regardless of what background they have. But we are talking about starting salaries here.
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I pay around $1300 for a 1 bedroom apartment. This is a bit on the high side, but I like living in the city center, in summer it's almost European.
Salaries for grads outside of Moscow are probably half that - I think PHP coders in Kharkov, Ukraine for example would be pretty happy with 12-15K. QA positions could be as low as 8-10K. And $1300 for a 1-bedroom in Moscow center...what can I say you got off light. All my friends had to go through realtors for $2K places (2-3 rooms through) near Kitai-Gorod.
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If you only make $40k and are paying 30% in taxes, you're doing something very wrong.
You are right. It was quite an exaggeration on my part. Its more like 21.5%.