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I started working as a fulltime programmer (in Hungary) when I was 23 at market rate. Today I'm 34 (still in Hungary), and my net salary has gone up 5.3x. Ano
by Maro 12y ago
I started working as a fulltime programmer (in Hungary) when I was 23 at market rate.
Today I'm 34 (still in Hungary), and my net salary has gone up 5.3x.
Another 2-3x is doable by handpicking a high-paying job here in Hungary (eg. an investment bank), another 2-3x if I were to go abroad.
For 10x and higher further multiplies I will have to try a startup again (my first one failed), although that's not a salary, it's equity.
I consider this high rate of increase a lucky thing: basically I chose to become a programmer at the right time when the industry is hot. I often remind myself that maybe in 30 years this will not be so, and maybe programmers then will be like chemical engineers today.
- brudgers 12y agoJust to be clear, the data is from the US and based on US workers in the US labor market.
- zo1 12y ago>"[...]and maybe programmers then will be like chemical engineers today." Could you elaborate what you mean by "chemical engineers today"?
- jib 12y agoI studied to be a chemical engineer at one point (with engineering physics, but ok). Of the guys in my class, and wildly guessing, I would say that less than 50% work with something chemical related, mostly either in pulp, oil or fuel cells. A bit more than 50% work with something related to programming or computer modeling, and outside that a variety of odd jobs.