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Jobs at software companies in the US. Other industries don't pay very much for technical talent. $40k is extremely low for a senior role. Even in places like I
by triceratops 3y ago
Jobs at software companies in the US. Other industries don't pay very much for technical talent.
$40k is extremely low for a senior role. Even in places like India or China.
- Terr_ 3y ago> Jobs at software companies in the US. A few very rare jobs at software companies in the US. The BLS median for 2024 is way lower, at $110k. (Yet at the same time, still much higher than parent-poster's $40k figure.)
- triceratops 3y agoI assume the BLS median accounts for all software jobs. That would include software jobs at GM (the US equivalent of BMW), banks, insurance companies, and the rest of the economy. Does it control for industry?
- Terr_ 3y agoGoing back to the phrase "software companies", the closest category-breakdown looks to be "Software Publishers", where the mean average [0] rises a bit to $149k. (I'm going to assume that the relative difference in means is similar to the difference in not-shown medians.) You can see higher values, but I think they look suspiciously like generic labels slapped over large something-opolies such as Google ("Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services", mean $215k) or Uber and Lyft ("Taxi and Limousine Service", mean $187k.) [0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm#ind https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm#ind