I love being in a profession where the lowest tier on a salary poll is "Less than 60k."
And I'm guessing that'll be the longtail. All hail our new (rich) geek elite.
Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?
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#62FFS, I'm getting paid £15k. I asked for £25k and was laughed out of the office.
I doubt you'll stay there long knowing what you know now though! Don't make my mistake. Started on £15k, 6 years later I left... on £17.5k.
edit: To be fair I was continually promised 0.1% of the company if I worked just a little bit harder :)
Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?
#63In academia, I was paid around $56k. Moving into industry I went up to $75k. I just took a new job with a big multinational and my salary popped up to $140k.
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#65What is this "K"? The prefix for thousand is "k" and if asking about money it would be nice to specify the currency.
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#66Again, this doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense without location data. I'm voting with my salary adjusted to San Francisco levels by using the following adjustment tool: http://www.bestplaces.net/col/ I'd recommend that people do the same so we can remove a substantial source of noise from this poll and actually get a meaningful distribution.
Haha: "Housing is 581% more expensive in San Francisco." And I live in the Northeast! I mean, I guess they would need to pay me a lot more, because I literally could not spend 6x my current rent, because that would be all of my income.
Too many people confuse SF with the Bay Area. SF is just one city in a much larger populated region. You don't need to live in SF proper even to work there. And housing is cheaper outside of the City than in it (generally).
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#67If you look at how salaries are distributed across the US public, the 60k - 100k category is way too large while 151k-200k should probably be just one range and not two. As someone who hires programmers, I am much more interested in how many people make between 60-70, 70-85, and 85-100.
I think it adds value but I have also created a richer survey here ( https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey... ) The raw anonymous results will be shared on HN in a few days w/analysis.
How about a seniority/years of experience field?
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#68As an intern, my real yearly salary is less than 60k, but I voted for the yearly extrapolation in 60-100k.
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#69Quite interesting. In Germany or Europe very very few programmers would make more than 100k USD (around 70k EUR) unless he is in some position where he leads a team or oversees bigger projects. Then i see how cheap cars and computer hardware etc is in the US and i really start to wonder where this massive difference comes from. US engineers seem to earn way more and generally pay much less for many things. Apple hard…
I am in Germany, and 70k EUR seems average for someone with experience and/or specialist skills. (Of course less experienced or "motivated" developers will be on a bit less than that). 70k would be low for anyone in a leadership role. Of course half of that gets taxed away, so I wouldn't really compare it to 100k USD.
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#70This has got me thinking. I would literally pay someone to figuratively sit down with me, go through what I've done/can do etc and then based off their experiences tell me what I could be getting.
Of course, it won't be too accurate and location makes a big difference but perhaps an enlightened recruiter type with a bit of experience in a couple of parts of the world could give a ballpark figure, say X in SV, Y in NY, Z in the UK. That's more use to me than looking at self-reported salaries where I know hardly anything about the real circumstances. Failing that, just a guy in one place from which I could very roughly convert to my part of the world.