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Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers (stackoverflow.com)

Posted by msmash on from the find-out-where-you-stand dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Stack Overflow today launched Salary Calculator, a tool that lets developers check out typical salaries across the industry. The calculated results are based on five factors: location, education, years of professional coding experience, developer type, and technologies used professionally. Stack Overflow is releasing the tool because it believes developers should be empowered with more information around job searches, careers, and salary. The company noticed ads on Stack Overflow Jobs that include salary information get 75 percent more clicks than ads without salary information. Even in cases when the salary range is below average, the ads still get 60 percent more clicks.

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  1. Re: Less useful than I had hoped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the middle of the day, and you're posting on a Slashdot article as soon as it went up. No wonder you're "underpaid". Get back to work!!

  2. Re: Less useful than I had hoped by computational+super · · Score: 3, Funny

    And that's the other thing that irritates me about this calculator - "Slashdot Article Reader" is not listed in the Role drop-down.

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  3. Re:No Embedded? by computational+super · · Score: 3, Funny

    Simulink isn't offered as a 'language'.

    Dear God, please let that be a sign that it's not being used any more.

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  4. Re:No infromation security category? by computational+super · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to search the music major salary calculator to see that.

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  5. Re: Less useful than I had hoped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    An article *reader* is a rare skill btw.