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>FWIW, my first programming job only paid $45,000 a year. What a ripoff. How is that a ripoff? That seems right at about average for starting salary programmin
by benihana 16y ago
>FWIW, my first programming job only paid $45,000 a year. What a ripoff.
How is that a ripoff? That seems right at about average for starting salary programming.
- jessedhillon 16y agoMy first programming job paid $75k in 2007. It was not at some big name firm but a run-of-the-mill ad agency and I was doing PHP web dev. It was in SF and I had just graduated from UC Berkeley about six months prior to hire. Unless he (or she) is working as a game dev, he is grossly underpaid. (Even if he is doing game dev he'd be underpaid, just the standard for pay would be much lower for his industry.)
- jamesteow 16y agoTo be absolutely fair, SF/NY have much higher starting rates than other places.
- jrockway 16y agoIf people are getting $100,000 right out of college, then $45,000 is not very good.
- tedunangst 16y agoWell, we'd need to know when that was. $45k in 1980 would be pretty awesome.
- jrockway 16y agoI'm 25, so this was probably 4 years ago at the most. (Fun fact: jrockway was once a PHP programmer. And, we did not use source control there. And a web developer did a "push" and overwrote my weeks worth of programming. Then I knew it was time to find a new job :)