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Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector (howmuch.net)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

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.

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  1. Pay went DOWN since 2000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.