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It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to
by eitally 11y ago
It is high, but it depends on experience and who they work for. More common for people with 5-7yr experience is in the 90-110k range, but it's not abnormal to find skilled folks at places like SAS, Cisco, Citrix, Redhat, MS, Lenovo, BASF, IBM, NetApp, and many more earning above mean salaries.
Source: live in RDU, was an engineering director until last summer, hired lots of people here over the years and know a bunch more. What's disturbing is the number of companies only hiring contractors or contract-to-hire engineers around here.
- samstave 11y agoWhat/where is RDU?
- akhilcacharya 11y agoRaleigh/Durham NC - we're probably the biggest tech hub behind Austin.
- moondev 11y agoBigger than NYC?
- vonmoltke 11y agoNYC is behind Austin? I would put Austin #5 behind SFBA, NYC, Seattle, and Boston.
- stuff4ben 11y agoHardly. Atlanta, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, etc are all much bigger than RTP. It's nice here, but it ain't that good.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoEr, behind Austin. Austin is probably behind all of those save for maybe ATL, I don't know much about the tech scene there.
- mhurron 11y agoRaleigh/Durham North Carolina. RDU is the call for the international airport. Others will also refer to it as RTP, but that's really a specific area in RDU.
- rtkwe 11y agoRaleigh-Durham, North Carolina is what it usually means, there's a lot of programming and biomedical business in the area between the 3 cities because we have 3 colleges in the area to feed new talent in for a lot of different fields. (PS: When in doubt check airport codes.)
- samstave 11y agoAh, thanks - it was the U that threw me off..
- base698 11y agoMost of the Clojure community seems centered in Durham now. Pretty wild.
- puredanger 11y agoCognitect (where Rich Hickey works and Clojure is maintained) is based in Durham.
- vonmoltke 11y agoI need to look harder in RDU then, because I love North Carolina and would love the pay raise.
- RickS 11y agoWhat's normal, in your experience, around the area? Thinking about moving out there and would love to talk more, email's in my profile.
- vonmoltke 11y agoOh, I'm in Dallas. "Normal" here is apparently ~$95,000 for 10 - 15 years experience.
- eitally 11y agoIf you prefer working in financial services, you can also check all the banks in Charlotte. Also, MetLife & Fidelity are constantly hiring like mad in Cary/Morrisville.
- vonmoltke 11y agoActually, I prefer embedded development. I could do financial services, but I'm not sure I want to.
- mhurron 11y ago> What's disturbing is the number of companies only hiring contractors or contract-to-hire engineers around here. So, no different than anywhere else.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoThat's very interesting. I'm in the area and thought it would skew lower, even for ~18 years experience like in the spreadsheet. It would be nice to know the company for that particular row.