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Don't listen to what anyone who says that you can make as much as a programmer as a manager. The best programmers in the world with no management experience ar
by pyrrhotech 13y ago
Don't listen to what anyone who says that you can make as much as a programmer as a manager. The best programmers in the world with no management experience are going to cap at much less than a million a year in 99.9% of cases. Usually 400k or less. That's still good, and if you are happy with that stay a programmer! Just don't justify it saying that's the most you could make.
People who go into management literally have no cap in earnings. There are people who started as engineers and worked their way into senior management and even C suite positions. These positions can pay 7 or even 8 and in some cases 9 figures a year. The cap is much, much higher than you could ever make as just a programmer.
- wallflower 13y agoUsually but not always in most corporate structures an MBA from a brand name school is required to move into the mid-high six and seven figure management positions.
- FireBeyond 13y agoLate comment: but handily enough, many large enough corporate structures will happily pay your way through MBA school when you are middle management with "potential". My ex-employer sent one of the managers in my group through Dartmouth's MBA program.