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13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

itwbennett writes: That was one of the findings of a survey of 50,000 U.S. college students and recent graduates by Looksharp, a marketplace for internships and entry-level jobs. For general findings across all majors, check out the State of College Hiring Report 2015. But the company shared some more computer science-specific findings with Phil Johnson. Among them: "Of all majors, students studying in CS had the highest average starting salary, $66,161." And, what's more, they know the value of their degree: "On average, they expected a starting salary of $68,120, slightly above the actual average starting salary of $66,161."

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  1. Total by crow_t_robot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bullshit. Not believing any of this till I see paystubs.

    1. Re:Total by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah I work in engineering and starting salary expectations were similarly overinflated. These sort of claims mean nothing without a breakdown of what the averages are in different states and cities, starting salaries can easily vary by at least $20k depending on location.

  2. geography is key by swan5566 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where are these jobs? Silicon Valley? A small town in the Midwest?

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  3. Undergrad only? by assantisz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are they talking about undergrads or did they include graduate students and PhD graduates as well? I really doubt that somebody fresh from college with an undergrad degree can make mid $60k right off the bat.

  4. Re:People are overpaid in the USA by fustakrakich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gotta cover the prices. The rest of the world is underpaid. Nobody should ever have to work more than an hour to buy a case of decent beer.

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  5. only ~ 300 CS students in the study by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    of the thousands of students in the poll... only about 350 were CS majors. Makes it kinda easy to have a skewed perspective.

  6. I hope they realize... by Pfhorrest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope all these CS graduates making this kind of money right out of college realize the kind of rarefied strata that they are in.

    More than half of all people on the country make less than half of their starting salaries.

    I see so much flippancy from some people here in Slashdot who don't seem to realize the kind of money that most people in this country have to live on.

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    1. Re:I hope they realize... by Pfhorrest · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's not about guilt, it's about recognizing the way that other people have to live, so that when you make broad generalizations about society you don't assume that everybody has he advantages you have and dismiss the problems they suffer from lacking those advantages.

      I kinda hate the way "privilege" gets thrown around a lot of the time, but this is pretty much the clearest sense of privilege here. And like all privilege, the point is not that it's bad that some people have it and they should feel guilty for it; it's bad that a lot of people don't have it, and those who do should bear in mind the different challenges that those who don't face.

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    2. Re:I hope they realize... by danaris · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That's where not being a leftist comes in handy. I get paid well, and don't have to feel guilty about it, nor about wanting more. And I can walk past the beggars in the subway faking disabilities or telling some sort of bogus sob story and feel nothing more than mild irritation.

      s/leftist/uncaring, selfish bastard/

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  7. Not in Canada by iONiUM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hire a lot of developers for my company, and recent grads are slotted in our "junior" role (unless they somehow had a lot of experience during university) and the starting salary is between $55-70k depending on many factors that are personal to them. I have never hired anyone out of university for $100k, and I think that is nuts. Companies should pay for quality, not ambition.