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What you should ask for depends on how easy your able to accomplish tasks and bring value with your work with the technology and business skills you provide to

What you should ask for depends on how easy your able to accomplish tasks and bring value with your work with the technology and business skills you provide to the company (How much money you generate or save vs them hiring more people to do what you do for less. Or how smooth and professional your work is compared to your peers.). You should also take into account how much money the company is generating. If your going to go work for a large bank your starting salary can be much higher versus going to work for a small or medium size business that does not have quarterly profits in the multi-millions or more. Just be careful with the Senior level jobs, I would would not recommend going for them unless you really know the technology inside/out and develop in it with ease. If your knocking out large applications with ease Which are you:journeyman, junior,intermediate, senior, expert, master developer? Regular ranges here in the USA metro areas are among the following: For your general development:(Generic Java/C#/etc. General Website Design/Development) Journeyman:$50k-$59k Junior:$60k-$79k Intermediate:$80k-$89k Senior:$90k-$180k Expert:$181k-$250k Master:$251k-$1M+ For high demand programming languages/skills(Ruby/PHP/Java/Python/Node.js/large company Java and/or C# high performance optimization on the JVM or .NET Framework or websites and automation) Journeyman:$60k-$69k Junior:$70k-$79k Intermediate:$80k-$89k Senior:$90k-$199k Expert:$200k-$399k Master:$400k-$1M+ For specialized programming languages/skills (GPU/Cuda/OpenGL/ORACLE/C/C++/Cryptology/Game Engine development/Finance/Graphics or Animation software) Journeyman:$90k-$99k Junior:$100k-$119k Intermediate:$120k-$250k Senior:$250k-$400k Expert:$500k-$750k Master:$750k-$2M+ Also note these are for salaried positions, if interviewing for contract positions you would double the amounts since you are also covering the employers share, your own vacation, medical, dental, health, life insurance, savings, and investment income. Just remember don't sell yourself short and get what you know your worth.

mod 12y ago
Can you define "joureyman" here? I have always understood "junior" to be the entry-level.
- techjuice 12y ago
  A Journeyman is the absolute beginner, normally this is an intern (can be contract, or salaried but normally always paid and temp to perm if things work out) or someone you take under your wing to teach them the ropes even though they have no experience in what your teaching them. Junior developers have normally put in some time with their language of choice and can do some simple tasks but are not yet at that state to where they can do fully functional production grade applications from scratch without some assistance.

mod 12y ago

Can you define "joureyman" here? I have always understood "junior" to be the entry-level.

techjuice 12y ago
A Journeyman is the absolute beginner, normally this is an intern (can be contract, or salaried but normally always paid and temp to perm if things work out) or someone you take under your wing to teach them the ropes even though they have no experience in what your teaching them. Junior developers have normally put in some time with their language of choice and can do some simple tasks but are not yet at that state to where they can do fully functional production grade applications from scratch without some assistance.