Large scale ecommerce is pretty boring and usually pays a lot. Try Amazon. Likewise, any sort of big ERP package consulting pays a lot and is boring. The other

Large scale ecommerce is pretty boring and usually pays a lot. Try Amazon. Likewise, any sort of big ERP package consulting pays a lot and is boring. The other direction is a combination of hard and unsexy. VMWare had the highest base pay in the Bay Area when I left. I'm in Australia now and it seems like the highest pay for a software developer is to work with a mining company. Of course, if you are in NYC, there's always some financial thing. Then again, I'm on the market and have been poking around and thought the proposed compensation at places like Apple and Google was pretty good. If your career goal is a stable job that pays $250K a year, software isn't the right field.