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The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Re: The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Post by Xurinos »

iamdave wrote: post #20
joshwa wrote: post #17

What the hell is the difference between: Developer/Programmer Analyst Software Engineer (Lead) Applications Developer (Senior) Web Developer

The way I see it (would be good to hear other opinions): Developer/Programmer Analyst = looks for bugs. Software Engineer = Integrates the code into live environments Lead Applications Developer = Primarily focused on developing the relevant code Senior Web Developer = "I've been here the longest"

Developer/Programmer Analyst = looks for bugs.

Around here, it means "Integrates the code into live environments, does some statistical work, does some DB work"

Re: The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Post by mcknz »

swombat wrote: post #25
mcknz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other side, NYC companies will look for remote workers in the midwest to save money. Consulting companies can charge NYC rates with an Indiana overhead. Midwest is the new offshore.

"On the other side"? Seems you're making the exact same point he is...

Could be -- I read it as "making NYC money on a non-NYC standard of living."

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

PonyGumbo wrote: post #19

After seeing the variance by region, it makes me very curious about the % adjustment for telecommuting-only jobs. I'm at the low end of the scale (and about $30k underpaid if you adjust for location and skills), but I work from home on the opposite side of the country from my employer.

30k underpaid for your location or the location of the employer? If it is for the location of the employer, then you are "right-sourced" and being paid "fairly".

Honestly, i think telecommuting-only jobs make such a minority of jobs that gathering real data on their pay would be difficult.

Re: The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Post by wazoox »

robin_reala wrote: post #22

This is US-only data; bit of a shame when the domain is earthweb.com.

A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation convinces me that it should be roughly applicable to western Europe. Example :

US$100000 convert to 72000 € Depending upon the country, divide by 1.0 (GB) to 1.4 (France) or maybe 1.5 (Denmark) for charges, you get a somewhat realistic value.

Re: The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Post by jbooth »

mcknz wrote: post #16

I was interested to see that as a Lead Application Developer, you can add: 10% for Microsoft SharePoint skills 11% for SharePoint skills There's gotta be some arbitrage opportunity in there somewhere.

No, it's just an artifact of the text in the job descriptions, jobs that happened to phrase it without "Microsoft" happened to pay 1% more -- surprising they're that close, really. It's not like you can buy Microsoft Sharepoint developers and relabel them as Sharepoint developers for a profit.

Re: The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Post by matwood »

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #35
PonyGumbo wrote: post #19

After seeing the variance by region, it makes me very curious about the % adjustment for telecommuting-only jobs. I'm at the low end of the scale (and about $30k underpaid if you adjust for location and skills), but I work from home on the opposite side of the country from my employer.

30k underpaid for your location or the location of the employer? If it is for the location of the employer, then you are "right-sourced" and being paid "fairly". Honestly, i think telecommuting-only jobs make such a minority of jobs that gathering real data on their pay would be difficult.

I telecommute and put my own $ figure out what it's worth to me. When I first started I thought the salary was fair for what I thought telecommuting was worth. Recently I've been talking to my supervisor about a raise because now I feel I'm underpaid (and the article just proves along with my other research).

The company also cut my bonus to a why bother number and raised my insurance costs. I love working at home, but there comes a point where I can't justify leaving so much money on the table in prime earning years.

Re: The 2011 IT Salary Guide

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Post by rdmlx »

joshwa wrote: post #17

What the hell is the difference between: Developer/Programmer Analyst Software Engineer (Lead) Applications Developer (Senior) Web Developer

In my company:

1) Works with business analysts to design and code applications according to business requirements. Intermediary between engineering and business.

2) Engineering responsible for architecture and heavy lifting. ie; build a framework for the developers to use.

3) Same as 1 with more responsibility.

4) Same as 1 except more experience/skill set is specifically web related.

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