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IT Salary: National Averages for 45 IT Jobs (earthweb.com)
1 point by bconway on Nov 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I always wonder where they get the data for these numbers. Out of the developers that I know still working 9-5's they are all making well above those numbers.

I have some fresh out of collage HTML, CSS, light Javascript guys that command better numbers than most of the quoted and I am in Florida (silicon swamp). We are not the mid-west, but we are definitely not NY or the Vally. In both those markets 6 figures starts the salary negotiation process and is realistically attainable in the Florida market with 5-10 years experience.

When I see numbers so out of skew, I suspect an agenda. With the market steaming again, it makes them that much more suspect.




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