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100k is a lower salary (adjusted for inflation) than high school dropouts were making in the dot-com boom doing things like server administration for companies
by trevelyan 13y ago
100k is a lower salary (adjusted for inflation) than high school dropouts were making in the dot-com boom doing things like server administration for companies like Go/Disney.
- krisdol 13y agoToo bad that bubble popped.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThat's not the point, though you're right. The point is that $100k is still a lot of money when the median is ?$47k. What are all these people doing instead of accepting a measly $100k to be software engineers? I don't think 4100k jobs are so easily available in the US that people are just turning up their noses at it, but that there may be other reasons (like lack of appropriate skills) for the lack of supply. Of course more people will try to enter the profession if salaries are allowed to rise to a market equilibrium, but SW engineering skills aren't a simple commodity that people will just automatically acquire in accordance with the laws of perfect competition.