This is a really great article. Take a look at these statistics "However, outside of these subsegments, programmer salaries are not rising rapidly. Bureau of L

This is a really great article. Take a look at these statistics "However, outside of these subsegments, programmer salaries are not rising rapidly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that salaries of programmers overall - i.e. combining the ones who have currently-``hot'' skills and the ``ordinary'' programmers - rose about 7% in 1997. _If employers were desperate to hire, as they claim, they would certainly be willing to pay a premium of more than 7%._"