Re: Salaries (was Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers")
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:26:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:01, Tom wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:41:17PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
> > > On Monday 10 November 2003 10:24 pm, Tom wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:11:04PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I'm a "Developer" -- even though I started with VB and Access and while
> > I know C well I am not very effective with it -- businesses find what I
> > do useful enough to the point that all my peer groups makes $100K now.
> > (I consider myself a good developer but not extrordinary: there are so
> > many smart people.) Actually the average is closer to $120K now; and
> > it's rapidly approaching $150K for the high achievers.
>
> $120,000/year for a VB developer??????????
I'm not a VB developer any more: that was me from 1993-1996. I
graduated :-)
You can write an O(n) + C in wordperfect macro language if you have to:
the C will be gigantically enormous but the hardware guys can fix that.
As long as it's O(n), it makes money.
My last few jobs have been writing ISAPI extensions, ATL, server-side
thread pools using I/O Completion ports. My clients have been Sybase,
Morgan Stanley, Roguewave, Netflix, the Gap, Siebel: trust me, I'm no
lightweight. But I'm no superman nor can I write device drivers or an
operating system: ironically those guys seem *not* to make as much money
either, even though it's much harder. It just doesn't bring in the big
bucks.
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