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0 pointsfrancisofascii1y ago0 comments

There are plenty of developer gigs in the US with salaries less than $100k, or with contract hourly rates less than $50/hour. Especially if the job is remote or in a low COL area.

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lm284691y ago

Unless we only talk about big tech companies there are more devs under 100k than devs above 200k, for sure, not even close. 300k as a dev you're in the lucky top 10%

DanielHB1y ago

People would be surprised how much of the software world relies on low-pay PHP/wordpress developers. I know a few people who started their careers like that.

No-code and low-code solutions have been getting better so the demand for those jobs is drying up though, but there are still massive operations running on top of some wordpress server that people FTP files to.

lesuorac1y ago

Yeah straight up, SquareSpace is killing more jobs than LLMs.

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closeparen1y ago

BLS quantifies this. $100k is 25th percentile. $200k is 90th percentile nationally, median in Sunnyvale-San Jose-Santa Clara.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm

mywittyname1y ago

The best way to compare is to use BLS figures.

The median salary of an electrician in the USA is $62k. For a software developer, the median is $130k.

A top 10% electrician earns $110k. A top 10% software developer earns $210k.

In fact, even developers in the bottom 10% of software development out earn a median electrician.

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