Programming Skills with the Highest Salaries [infographic]

The geographic regions within the US that this data was collected from should be noted in the infographic.

These values seem off to me.

Hypothetical best case is only $95k? How is that calculated? I make more than that with C# and 15 years of experience, and the above charts have some demographics going up to $120k.

This doesn't appear very well put together. It's pretty though. Pretty sure a designer, not a software engineeer, made this.
 
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:D That's "statistics" for you... so don't bother to fry your valuable brain over it...And

you "probably" have no reason to degrade a designer... Do you think only a SW engineer can put everything very well together?! Check the google algo mishaps, and you will change that opinion...... :D
AutomationSorcerer said:
The geographic regions within the US that this data was collected from should be noted in the infographic.

These values seem off to me.

Hypothetical best case is only $95k? How is that calculated? I make more than that with C# and 15 years of experience, and the above charts have some demographics going up to $120k.

This doesn't appear very well put together. It's pretty though. Pretty sure a designer, not a software engineeer, made this.
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I don't rate a designer's aptitude for statistics and data analytics in general very highly to be honest. Don't mistake that for degrading designers as a whole though. I had one designer I worked with for years, and we had a team dynamic that just flowed. He ended up teaching me CSS/UI related JS, and I ended up teaching him PHP, so we got to the point where hand offs included parts of our job already done for us.

I have a lot of respect for -good- designers. Doesn't matter how flawless and perfect the functionality of your application or website is; it won't look professional until a designer makes it look beautiful.

Freaking love that image though. Totally stealing it.
 
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mastersocialnetwork said:
That salary is very high.
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Not exactly sure which one you're referring to, but the salaries mentioned are pretty accurate in general. Senior developers tend to cap out ~$115k / year. To go any higher, you have to move into an architect/development manager/development director role. Even those cap out ~$150k I believe. Not there yet though, so not sure.

I live in a large city with a huge tech sector though. When I lived in a city that had 4 software companies total, highest salary I saw was like, $60k.
 
Nice infographic! Thanks for sharing. I see Ruby is ranking pretty well :)
 
Seoking1 said:
Really Cool Info-graphics. I think i should create a start-up company with my friends.
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You should know that starting a startup requires a lot of work, and in the end, more than 90% startups fail.
 
AutomationSorcerer said:
Not exactly sure which one you're referring to, but the salaries mentioned are pretty accurate in general. Senior developers tend to cap out ~$115k / year. To go any higher, you have to move into an architect/development manager/development director role. Even those cap out ~$150k I believe.
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The salaries in that graphic must be averages because some of them are way lower than they should be.

CTOs command substantially higher salaries than $120K for example. I was in the recruitment and headhunting game for a long time and I placed CTOs at more than double that salary 15 years ago, with a package on top.

And the start-up sector is going nuts right now. VCs are throwing money at everything they can get their hands on and there's a shit fight to find the right people. I'd say if you looked at the Valley or any of the other tech hubs you'd easily be able to add 50% to the numbers in that graphic.
 
The infographic is nice but I think it all depends on targeting. If you are a freelancer, what type of clients are you targeting? That'll dictate mostly how much you'll be earning. Targeting.
 
Interestingly enough, I don't see Haskell, Lisp and Clojure in the list. Why would they ommit functional programming languages from the charts?
 
Judging by this infographic, it pays off to learn C++.
 
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