Taking a Look At High-End Programmer Salaries

msmoriarty writes "Our reporter decided to try to document the high end of programmer salaries (at least in the US). It seems that $300,000 to $400,000 and up is not unheard of in the financial industry, but the highest salary we could document was apx. $1.2 million, earned by Sergey Aleynikov, who was later convicted of stealing proprietary source code from a previous employer, Goldman Sachs."

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Re:Financial Industry

[jrumney]

Recruiters quite often send me 6 month - 1 year contract roles that offer rates around £800-1000/day, which works out at about $500,000 a year.

The recruiters obviously aren't filtering well enough. Those jobs they are sending you emails about require some basic math skills.