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SAGE 2004-2005 Salary Survey Announced
Nalez writes "The ever-popular SAGE Salary Survey is ready to go and available to all computer administrators. Everyone who participates will get a copy of the results. The survey takes 17-20 minutes to complete. SAGE members can access the 2003 results and you can read all about previous SAGE surveys."
Could a computer coding job paying just $15 per hour signal something's wrong with the tech world?
:-).
There's nothing wrong with the tech world: once, programmers did this obscure, complicated thing called "coding". Nobody else could do it, it was new and cutting edge, and therefore they were paid very well and were very respected.
Now, the industry has matured, computers are ubiquitous, programming languages, IDEs, operating systems, libraries... are numerous, well developed, documented, and the programmer of yesteryear has become a line pisser, paid like any other moderatly skilled worker. I should know, I was one of them (note the past tense
There's nothing wrong with that. All industries go through the same cycle.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Develop it, and make a fortune charging folks for access to your information!
Oh wait... no one in IT would pay. They'd yell "information wants to be free"!
Nevermind.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
It's all relative. I work for a multinational company, and I can tell you one thing. I make 32K in the states. My job in Tokyo pays 41K(USD). My job in Bangalore pays 19K(USD). And you know what? All of us do ok, because our buying power is determined by the local economy. So if I make like $32k and I'm happy, and they guy over in India makes $19k and we both have roughly the same spending power, who is to say that I make more than him? Maybe in absolute dollars, but certainly not in quality of life or buying power. By any measure of financial success, we are equals regardless of the fact that I make 75% more than the him.
You have to take that into consideration.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
It's hard to go to your boss with a request for a raise when there have been company-implemented pay-raise-freezes for several straight years. :)
Not really. If you can each live on 80% of your salaries and you invest the other 20% each year, the Tokyo guy would retire a multimillionaire while the India guy won't have nearly so much. Mr. Tokyo could cruise around the world in a yacht or something while Mr. India could never afford to travel the world.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
You are so neive. Have you not been paying attention for the last 6 years or so?
I can't imagine getting your pay cut because others are making more.
No, but what they will do is lay someone off (ie, fire them) and then either outsource the job, or hire two two people at a lower rate when they need another employee (ie, there's more work than you're able to do).
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