The jobs I'm talking about are the median software development job. According to Payscale, these developers make about $70k in the United States. This is over t

The jobs I'm talking about are the median software development job. According to Payscale, these developers make about $70k in the United States. This is over twice the median individual income, so yes they are well paid. https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/Salary https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N Too often on HN we focus on and glamourize the flashy Silicon Valley jobs and we think this is what our industry looks like. It doesn't. The Google, Facebook, and Amazon of the world are the 95th-99th percentile jobs, the very top of our industry in terms of salary and prestige. They do not represent the typical software developer.