Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday April 20, 2004 @11:58AM from the is-this-job-offering-me-enough dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I will be graduating from college in May with a degree in computer science. I have begun the job search and gone on a few interviews. So far I have gotten two job offers which I am thankful for, but the salary seems low. I am not saying that I am too good to pay my dues and work my way up, but I could make more waiting tables. It is somewhat distressing that I have spent 4 years of college and years before that developing my programming skills. I am not trying to get rich, but I was hoping that the high level of skill required would account for something(no offense intended to waiters). Can anyone give me any insight about what a reasonable starting salary would be, for an entry level software engineer?"

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Sounds like you suck at what you do by gnuLNX · 2004-04-20 12:12 · Score: 0, Troll

Let the rants begin.

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Re:Let me be the first to say by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-20 14:35 · Score: 0, Troll

Ah, yes, perhaps here is someone who could hire you....
Bad move dude by photon317 · 2004-04-20 16:48 · Score: 0, Troll

3 years ago you should've seen what was happening to this industry and switched majors. You're hosed now, and there's no good answers. Take a crappy programming job for now to help pay the bills and attend bartending school at night to start working on a real career, that's my advice.

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Re:I don't know a good rate... by Pandora's+Vox · 2004-04-20 18:57 · Score: 0, Troll

and isn't that the problem? (that it's "just a figure of speech", that is)

this is one of those cases where it really isn't about being "PC" or not, it's about not being mean. we're here. we're queer. we don't like being called names :-(

-Leigh