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

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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Considering the pathetic state of software today

[smooth wombat]

the salaries are too high. Whether one is talking about an OS, a software package, an app, software today just plain sucks.

Bloat, ugly interfaces, options which don't work the same way depending on what menu you select, and many other issues, software has gone downhill, significantly, in the last decade.

Of course the excuses will fly fast and furious from those in programming claiming it's not their fault because the higher ups get in their way. If it were up to them the software they produce would be flawless. It would run using the bare minimum of memory while producing an odor similar to roses. It's only because of the managers and supervisors that software is pushed out incomplete and buggy. You can't hold them responsible for the code they wrote if someone else gets in the way. After all, they deserve their high salaries no matter how poorly the software performs.