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Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector (howmuch.net)
An anonymous reader writes: We often associate the tech sector with high-paying jobs and cool offices, but it turns out that the grass is not always green on the other side. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, personal finance site HowMuch has created a graph that showcases the 15 best and worst paid jobs in the technology industry.
Those numbers look about right. I earn $50,000 doing IT in Silicon Valley. I also get a Christmas Bonus.
Yet again we have these useless base salary comparisons that aren't indexed to cost of living. Many in the tech industry see significant portions of income coming from bonuses and equity. Consider the bay area; $150k total comp is more like entry level software engineer these days, and AI/ML folks can pull in $300k+ from the get go.
companies are contracting out more and more IT support. I'm a enterprise lead printer tech, so I help techs all around the country with issues and help find solutions to many problems we run into by working with the printer hardware or software engineers. but I only pull in 41k before taxes since the printer company contracted out techs to another company. I'm seeing more and more of that happening too. it sucks.
I'd agree that a lot of these salary rates look approximately correct to me. But you only know so much from a job title.
For example? According to this chart, a Network Administrator gets paid about $58,873 yet a Network and Computer Systems Administrator gets $86,430. I bet if you actually talked to a number of people who were given each of those job titles, you'd find a big mish-mash of what people holding either title actually did as job responsibilities. Arguably, someone purely doing "Network Administration" might be the one getting paid MORE, because he/she was purely responsible for high-end Cisco switches and networking gear, firewalls, etc. -- which require more specialized skills and certifications than someone just doing Windows PC workstation support or taking care of user account setup via Active Directory or what-not.
And heck, my own job title is "Support Analyst" -- which seems to be a completely made up name, created by pulling from a couple of different job titles and pasting words together. I can't ever find a salary match for my particular title -- and I'm quite sure that was done on purpose.
Customer Success Representative??
Right. And secretaries just loved it when they were "upgraded" to becoming Administrative Assistants.
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Like others have reported, this survey is pretty much useless. An IT manager making $150/year in silicon valley is on the poor side, while one in - say, Lincoln Nebraska - would be very well off.
Same goes for the other numbers. Yes, they are relative, but do not take into account regional differences.
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Forget Theo, blame Thanos.
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I hate them that are managing numbers of salaries.
It's showing a programmer making $51.30/hour or $106,710/year (I'm assuming that's as a W-2 salary and benefits.)
I was a programmer in 2000 making $75K with benefits or $37.50/hour. (Metro Atlanta) That's $54.88/hour in todays money that's $109,760 a year. And according that website, the cumulative rate of inflation was 46% since then.
And the salaries for other things have fell behind too. I remember project managers getting over 90K back then.
I wasn't in Silicon Valley or anything, either.
I would expect much larger increases if there was truly a tech talent shortage.
Too many people read the acronym as Blue Screen of Death...
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As most companies, cash in hand, do, in my area.
(Search in vain for experienced Sofware Engineering talent, that is)
Fresh-out-of-school Electrical or Computer Engineering majors walk in the door at $75K around here.
What's wrong with this picture?
Too many people read the acronym as Blue Screen of Death...
Well, we all know that THAT particular BSD will never die!
What about winning much money in less hours?
Point #1: Instead of working 8hr/day (or 12hr/day as undomesticated dog), i want to work 2hr/day. By example, to be TV presenter and to win much money for my salary.
Point #2: i want to retire my jobs for another better jobs. By example, i want to be baseball player or rugby player or basketball player, from worse team to better team.
Point #3: i wanna work as slave badly paid.
I'm an electronics tech and are expected to have a wide range of technical skills and experience, yet I don't get paid as much as some of these entry-level paper-pushers? Fuck my life, fuck Kelly OCG, fuck this gay-ass tech industry, and fuck this gay-ass world, there ain't no justice.
Dude, if you're gonna brag as AC, at least name drop the company. They aren't going to know who the fuck you are. Since you didn't, I'm calling bullshit.
BSD Crossing the Bar
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When BSD puts out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When BSDs embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When BSD has crost the bar.
He makes twice as much as I do, for pretty much the same job. I'm a software engineer.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
He makes twice as much as I do, for pretty much the same job. I'm a software engineer.
That's the opposite job. He cleans up crap. Software engineers spew it forth.
Macker.
The fact that this ridiculous "graph" was used to present the data, instead of a simple table, tells you all that you need to know about the mathematical/statistical knowledge of the presenter. The visual format adds literally 0 information. Other commenters cover the details of the myriad fallacies. I want my 5 minutes back.
If humans are mostly water, and beer is mostly water, then humans must be mostly beer.
Well, it's sorta purple these days, so strictly speaking the blue screen is dead.
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
When did "tech sector" stop including the semiconductor and electronics industries?
Anyway here's the real list.
Best paid: CEO
Worst paid: Intern
Highest hourly rate: That omniscient guy down the hall who's been with the company since before you were born.