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I would be HIGHLY cautious of using this data as the basis for any sort of decision making process.. There is a lot of heterogenity in the engineering world, an

I would be HIGHLY cautious of using this data as the basis for any sort of decision making process.. There is a lot of heterogenity in the engineering world, and without any sort of statistical or methodological information it is very hard to know what is real here. For example, the female salary distribution smells fishily of small sample size and I don't believe their results without a standard-deviation-of-the-mean at the very least. All we can say for sure is that this measures the average salaries of people who respond to drdobbs surveys. They are significantly less than the salaries we are seeing on our platform at Hired. ( see: https://hired.com/blog/late-stage-companies-winning-the-war-for-talent/ https://hired.com/blog/late-stage-companies-winning-the-war-... )

Glyptodon 13y ago
I have huge issues with these 'surveys' as they never seem to reflect market realities in my geography. In the last three years I don't think I've seen many engineer or developer jobs listed in the whole state of Arizona listing salaries above 80k. I'd guess the average advertised openings range 50 - 80k, with the majority of 80k-ish ones near Phoenix. However, most AZ companies needing devs seem to be Java shops with government ties hiring entry-level devs, which probably distorts the picture as most developers would then logically be graded up every year or whatnot and probably making above 80k after 3 years. So maybe I'm not really saying the numbers are wrong, just that they seem wrong for entry level and sub 25-year-olds in the AZ/NM region. Or that there's a big disconnect between listed salaries in job openings and the actual average salaries among those with established positions in most markets.