Freshman Year - $18/hr doing C/Java at a fortune 500. Sophomore Year - $20/hr doing C/Java at same fortune 500. Junior Year - $22/hr doing Python at same fort

Freshman Year - $18/hr doing C/Java at a fortune 500. Sophomore Year - $20/hr doing C/Java at same fortune 500. Junior Year - $22/hr doing Python at same fortune 500 but different group Senior Year - $16/hr doing C# at a defense contractor Masters Degree - $32/hr at original fortune 500 in a Tier 2 support role. My Junior year, IBM Extreme Blue offered me $24/hr and $1000 for moving expenses for a summer internship in Austin, Texas (coding C#). While working on my masters degree I had a small software shop offer me $12/hr to code C for them. All jobs in Raleigh, NC. I had 2 years of professional development experience (perl) at a bank in Charlotte prior to college. A lot of the larger companies pay you based on some combination of credit hours completed divided by total credit hours for degree.