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The Bureau of Labor Statistics website says the mean hourly wage of computer programmers is $35.91 http://stats.bls.gov/oes/2009/may/oes151021.htm http://stats
by metachris 16y ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistics website says the mean hourly wage of computer programmers is $35.91
http://stats.bls.gov/oes/2009/may/oes151021.htm http://stats.bls.gov/oes/2009/may/oes151021.htm
- nitrogen 16y agoNationally, yes. $36/hr is ~$75000/yr, which is quite comfortable in many states (including Utah, which is the densest programming state listed on your link). Major metro stats are usually higher. That's after employer-provided benefits and employer-paid taxes. A $150 employee-paid group health plan could easily cost an employer $850 on top of that, and a contractor has to pay for his/her own facilities and equipment, so contracting rates necessarily should be higher than hourly wages. Also keep in mind that national statistics, and mean statistics in general, are brought down by lower-cost states and below-market jobs writing VBA macros that got categorized as computer programmers.