Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year

First time accepted submitter russotto points out the claim of industry group TechAmerican Foundation (reported by Computerworld) that "wages for the software industry are falling, not rising. Wages fell 2% to $99,000 in 2012." Averages are one thing; the article points out though that wages vary vastly within the industry, and that some jobs are harder to fill (thus, better paid) than others. An excerpt: "Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, a research firm that also analyzes IT wage and employment trends, cited a number of reason for the decline in wages for software professionals. First, technology is becoming easier to implement without having an IT professional, he said. Also, the option of turning to outsourcing creates less pressure to increase wages. As the recession continues, companies continue 'to look at productivity and will often look to hire individuals who are lower cost employees,' said Janulaitis. That could include displaced baby boomer workers who have been out of work for some time and 'will take a lower paying job just to get back into the workforce.'"

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Re:Um.. I have actually

[HornWumpus]

Do you have staff? It sounds to me like you've never worked with air thieves? One 'bad one' can wreck a project schedule. A staff of only 'bad ones' will result in no useful work. You won't get 1 project that succeeds and you will go crazy trying to manage the morons and the projects they work on.

I've seen people trying to build SQL statements ending up with string concatenation operators in the the SQL and not understanding. He tried to say the database server was broken. Assigning him any work was insane. You could do it all yourself in less time then he was going to spend asking you stupid questions and in the end, you were more or less going to have to spoon feed him the answer so he could type it in.

The world is full of net negative workers. When you get a bunch of them together (e.g. US Senate) they produce far more work to be done then they actually do.

Re:Original study

[Billly Gates]

I saw a special on PBS on fairchild semi - conductor which came from Shockley when all his scientists and engineers rebelled and formed it as he was an asshole, racist, and a poor manager. Intel, Micron, and AMD came from there Fairchild which in return came from Shockley.All these different start ups fed from each other and customers who bought the chips wanted offices there close to where the manufacturing wise such as Atari. It was a booming industry with many players all offering partial ownerships in one spot. Most other industries did not operate like this where only the president owns the company and everyone else is an hourly employee before the 1960s.

It was cheap farmland which was a fraction of the cost of nearbye San Francisco and New York/New Jersey. There is UC at Berkeley, Stanford, UC @ San Fransisco and UC @ Davis. Not the MIT or Princeton of the northeast but there was young talent at all these universities and cheap cost of living and office space rentals back in the 1950s and 1960s. At least that is what was mentioned in the show as they wanted to go to San Fransisco but thought they could save cash by going to SV instead as there was nothing but empty land and farm fields.

  It was when these employees got rich through stock options did the value of housing inflate everything like it is today. I am sure the 1,000 facebook millionaires probably all quickly bought homes in order to flip for even more money. It is a bubble as most buyers are investors looking to make a buck.