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A 10th percentile software developer makes $65k [0], around twice the median personal income. [0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s

A 10th percentile software developer makes $65k [0], around twice the median personal income. [0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm#tab-5 https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... EDIT: I see you have updated your post with the same stat, but you don't seem to understand what it means. Even the lowest-paid software developers are the class enemy that solidarity is built to fight.

toomuchtodo 8y ago
I’m comparing income distribution (~$100k delta top to bottom, not including ISOs and RSUs) within the software engineering domain, not software engineers to non-engineers.
- closeparen 8y ago
  That's even sillier. Of course only the top few people in the field enjoy the top few salaries in the field. A statistical tautology is not a political cause of action. If you define "highly compensated" as relative to the field, then we can never all be highly compensated.
  - toomuchtodo 8y ago
    My apologies, but I disagree. A union would be able to provide a higher compensation floor (as other unions have done and do today).
    - closeparen 8y ago
      Sure, a union could push the already-extremely-high compensation floor even higher.
      - toomuchtodo 8y ago
        You consider the existing compensation high compared to other non-engineer roles. I agree, but that is not my argument nor the reason I advocate for collective bargaining. I consider SWE compensation low compared to the value delivered (we don’t need to argue that, right? That’s pretty clear IMO), and therefore desire more of the value be shared with the labor generating it versus it being captured by shareholders.