However, the number looks attractive in China or India... At least 2 skillful programmers can be afforded, I suspect. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Timothy Sipples <timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com > wrote:
> I thought I'd sanity check $61K. That number looks low to me, too.... > > But, much to my surprise, according to Salary.com that 2005 advertised > salary is right around the median U.S. salary for "Programmer II" (an > intermediate programmer) in 2009, even after four extra years of inflation. > It's well above today's median for "Programmer I" (entry programmer). Note > that "Programmer I" and "Programmer II" refer to general programming, > averaging out all environments and all languages. It would seem the grass > ain't greener somewhere else, folks, even if we take the distinctly > unscientific approach and assume a single data point (and an advertised > salary at that, not necessarily one actually paid) reflects broad reality. > > It seems that "average" programmers (whatever that means) are paid less > than I expected, and excellent programmers are never paid enough. But > whichever HR department posted the $61K salary in 2005 certainly wasn't > crazy, because that department probably did the same thing I just did and > checked market salary ranges in at least cursory fashion. > > And if they didn't fill the job, they would advertise a higher salary. (Or > not fill the job.) Or the applicant would negotiate a higher salary. So > they'd learn pretty fast. There are two sides to any market: supply and > demand. > > Anybody got any better data on median salaries, including field-specific > and region-specific median salaries? > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Cobe Xu Best Regards ----------------------------------------------------------- zOS Performance & Capacity Analyst E2E Performance Analyst Email: cob...@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
