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> invite the outliers Yep, reading that guy's salary history almost made me want to go jump off the roof, but I figure he lives in CA and probably went to an "
by commandlinefan 8y ago
> invite the outliers
Yep, reading that guy's salary history almost made me want to go jump off the roof, but I figure he lives in CA and probably went to an "upper-echelon" college. Here's mine, from somebody who went to a college that didn't make the US News top 100:
(Georgia)
- 1992: $25,000 (Internship), mostly Cobol
- 1995: Graduated with BSCS, no-name college, 3.5 GPA
(Illinois)
- 1995: $28,000 (got a raise to $35000, the only raise I've ever gotten without switching jobs), Cobol
- 1996: $40,000, C++
(North Texas)
- 1997: $50,000, C++
- 1998: $60,000, C++/Java
- 1999: $100,000, Java
- 2002: $100,000, Web programming/Java/Javascript ("lateral" job change, old company went out of business)
- 2008: Graduated MSCS, sort-of-name college, 3.9 GPA
- 2011: $120,000, Objective-C, iOS
- 2014: $120,000, Java/Javascript (another "lateral" change)
- 2018: $140,000, Java/Javascript
- jordache 8y agoDude you do know who Zakas is right? The guy wrote so many advanced JS books, and is essentially a rockstart in the JS world. His compensation is actually less than I anticipated, given that he is in the bay area...
- fdchn2017 8y agoI agree with you. His books on JavaScript are really great. They treat JavaScript as a first class programming language and not a scripting language and teach you from first principles without naming any of the bad actors in the JavaScript world and no biases. His Books are amazingly well written. I too am surprised how less he was paid compared to what I believe would be his calibre. The other interpretation would be that the absurd salaries that we hear of are the outliers and most very good engineers flatten out at around 200K USD
- jordache 8y ago>The other interpretation would be that the absurd salaries that we hear of are the outliers and most very good engineers flatten out at around 200K USD :(