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Just curious about my salary in comparison to others.

Experience: 6 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Large well known public company
Title: Web Developer III
Location: Dallas, Texas

SALARY: $74,000 a year

Location : Paris/France
Title    : Project Manager (ERP) and Software Engineer
          for a large end user (WholeSale & Retail Business)

Salary  : 75000 Euros

Experience: 5 years
Education: BS in computer science
Certifications: none
Company: smaller private company
Title: Lead Developer
Location: Oklahoma

SALARY: $85,000 a year

I'm running my own company now, but last year when I was an employee...

Experience: 2 years
Education: Bachelor of Computer Science Honours
Certifications: Clinically sane
Company: 250ish, 70 developers, enterprise software
Title: Software Developer
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

SALARY: $50,000 a year

I don't get a salary --  I get dividends, draw, distributions, bonus, and owner's equity. I'm 50% owner of my shop.

To fill in your template:

Experience: 16 years
Education: Bachelor Science, Computer Science
Certifications: MSCE, MCDBA, MCSD
Company: Very Small Local Privately Owned Company
Title: Everything (developer, dba, accountant, manager, boss, owner, sales, marketing, etc.)
Location: Cincinnati, OH.

We have good years, and we have bad years. It all depends on what's going on -- such is the risk, and the life of a business owner.

In the bad years: 50K (ish)
In the good years: 175K (ish)

All in all, over the last 8 years of running the business, it's been hanging (on average) around 95K.

This is *extremely* good pay for my area for a 9-5 cube-drone-developer, but when you consider the other duties I have, and the number of hours I put in, the risk exposures I hold as business owner -- I'm vastly underpaid.

I get 18000€ in Portugal for almost 2.5 years of experience. It seems a bit low compared to what I usually see in the UK/US. Oh well, maybe that's why i'm thinking of moving abroad.

Sorry if this may seem a bit off-topic but what is the difference between getting a contract/permanent job using an agency or going straight to the employer?

Zidane, I thought you made a bit more, football pays well.

Experience: 1 year
Education: In Progress - BS Comp. Eng. (Done Spring '08)
Certifications: none
Company: Very Small Privately owned Highway R&D company
Title: Acquisition Programmer
Location: Fayetteville, AR

SALARY: $32,000 a year if I worked full time (Current load drops to 20-30 hours during school season)

Experience: 1.5 years
Education: BS in CS/Masters in SE
Certifications: none
Company: small private company (60ish)
Title: Developer (Some server stuff too)
Location: Wisconsin

SALARY: $45,000 a year

Experience: 12 years
Education: University
Certifications: none
Company: Independent contractor
Title: n/a (mainly architecture roles)
Location: London, England

SALARY: averaging about £150,000 ($270,000) before tax per year

Experience: 10 years
Education: BS CompSci State University
Certifications: none
Company: Defense Contractor, multinational
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Boston, MA

SALARY: $103,000

Experience - ~ 5 years.
Education - M.S. Computer Science from Columbia U.
Work Field - Wall Street - Trading System Software
Salary - highest $120,000, average - $105,000.00

Experience: 6 years
Education: Art Degree
Certifications: none
Company: startup, insurance industry
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: San Diego CA
SALARY: 86,000

> Zidane, I thought you made a bit more, football pays well.

Didn't you hear I've retired?
I'm now back to my first love, computers, and am hoping to make a bit of money developing games: http://www.footymax.com/zidane.htm

Experience: 24 years
Education: A Levels
Certifications: none
Company: isv, 3 years old
Title: The boss
Location: UK
SALARY: $150,000

Experience: 7 years
Education: BS Computer Science, some graduate coursework
Certifications: SCP Java 2 (not sure it matters)
Company: Small, private startup
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Mid-size city in the South
Salary: $71,500

Experience: 1.5 years
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: none
Company: research
Title: Analyst
Location: San Antonio TX
SALARY: 55,000

Experience: about 2 years on IT but only 4 moths on programing
Education: CIS (Computer Information Systems) CS degree
Certifications: A+
Company: VAR (Not IT VAR)
Title: Do Not know since my manager never give me one
Job: creating windows application for automating some tasks
Location: Houston

SALARY: $33,500 per yr (peanuts salary)

Experience: 6 years
Education: None
Certifications: None
Company: Small software company
Title: Consultant
Job: Build web soulutions
Location: Norway

~$90K as web developer. No formal technical education.

Skills: Top percentile HTML/DHTML/XML/XSLT/CSS/JS/Flash, etc. (I was doing AJAX/Web 2.0 before anybody ever thought of those terms), journeyman server technologies, good VB6, some VB.Net, decent C#.

When had own business, income could range from $60K to $240K. Both extremes were awful. You hate to turn down work, but you hate having to do it all on deadlines. In practice, you're either stressed beyond belief or depressed because you're not billing anything right this second.

It varies a lot from year to year, but on average it's around a million, but I am the owner.

Oops, forgot the rest you were asking for.

Experience: ~30 years depending on how you count
Education: MS (2)
Certifications: none
Company: private small
Title: architect
Location: USA

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: A+, Network+
Company: tiny consulting firm (7 employees)
Title: Programmer
Location: Janesville, WI

SALARY: $33,600

Experience: 5 years development, 2 years overlapped with 7 years IT
Education: B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies (minor CS & Business)
Certifications: MCSE, MCSA
Company: Midsize (5k employee) MS-centric consulting firm
Title: Sr. Software Developer
Location: New York, NY

SALARY: $100,000 a year

Experience: 10 years
Education: PhD in CS (Complex Systems)
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 500 Telcoms manufacturer
Title: Product Manager
Location: M4 Corridor, UK

SALARY: £50k

Experience: 11 years
Education: University
Certifications: None
Company: mISV
Title: You name it, I do it
Location: Australia
SALARY: Varies US $714,000 last year

Experience: 15 years
Education: BA in Math
Certifications: none
Company: government contractor
Title: Senior Systems Analyst (Programmer)
Location: Bethesda, MD
SALARY: 80,000

Experience: 4 years as a professional programmer
Education: Open University
Certifications: none
Company: public sector
Title: Developer (J2EE)
Location: UK

SALARY: £33,000 (about $61,000) gross p.a.

Experience: 10 years
Education: B.S. Physics
Certifications: none
Company: Not saying to protect the guilty
Title: Programmer
Location: St. Johns (Podunk) Michigan

SALARY: $41,000 a year

Man, I've got to get a new job.

heh.

Experience: 3 years (err summers?)
Education: Highschool
Certifications: Network+
Company: Financial Services
Title: Unix Developer (Intern)
Location: Charlotte, NC

SALARY: $24,000 a year (assuming I worked year around.)

I have my own mISV now (net income varies from $200K-$350K), but when I was last employed by the "man" several years ago:

Experience: 12 years
Education: BS Comp Sci and Engineering
Certifications: none
Company: Medium-sized defense contractor (200 people)
Title: Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Location: Suburban D.C.
Salary: $95,000

Experience: 3 years
Education: College Dropout (CS)
Certifications: none
Company: Document Imaging/Data Capture Products
Title: SQA Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA
SALARY: $72,000

Experience: 14 years
Education: BS in Industrial Engineering
Certifications: not certifiable
Company: Worlds Largest Payroll Co. (You have to guess)
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
SALARY: 98,000

Experience: 9 years
Education: BSc (comp. sci.)
Certifications: none
Company: small but quoted on LSE (150-200 staff world wide)
Title: Sr. Software Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK

SALARY: £43,000 (~$80,000)

Experience: 10 years
Education: Physics PhD
Company: Oilfield instrumentation
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Scotland
SALARY: £37K ($70K)

Title: Software Design Engineer in Test
Company: Microsoft:
Salary: 74K

Experience: 10 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Medium sized embedded software company
Title: Development team leader
Location: Herzliya, Israel

SALARY: 276,000 NIS (~$63,000) a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: Bachelors (Hons) in CS
Certifications: None
Company: Financial Services/Telecoms
Title: Senior Systems Developer
Location: Dublin, Ireland
SALARY: €55,000 ($70,000)

Experience: 10 years
Education: No degree (but from a top tech school)Certifications: Sun Java cert
Company: ISV, banking applications
Title: Senior Systems Developer
Location: Boston, MA
SALARY: $90,000.

Experience: 8 years
Education: Bachelor of Engineering
Company: Not Tellin
Title: Architect
Location: Michigan, USA
SALARY: 82,000 USD

Experience: 30 years
Education: BSc (Hon) in Math
Certifications: None
Company: 1-man contracting
Title: "Principal consultant"
Location: Calgary, Canada
Revenue: usually around $200,000/year

Experience: 10 years
Education: Ms in CS
Certifications: none
Company: Large IB
Title: Software Developer, frontend trading system
Location: New York, NY

SALARY: $100,000 a year + 20% bonus

Experience: 15 years
Education: Ms in EE
Certifications: none
Company: Large Comm. equip vendor
Title: Software Developer
Location: DC area
Salary: $110,000 +10%bonus

Experience: 10 years
Education: Masters in EE
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 100
Title: Technical Lead
Location: Manhattan

SALARY: $115,000 a year

Experience: 12 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Small commercial ISV
Title: Development Manager (think lead dev + program mgr)
Location: Boston

SALARY: $84,000 a year

?? Looks like the salaries from people at senior level are not as high as I expected.  So, we programmers are just a group of higher paid blue colar workers?

Experience: 6 years
Education: BA CS
Company: State Government
Title: Manager of Technical Services
Location: Northeast

SALARY: $75,000

Experience: 3 years
Education: MSc in physics
Certifications: none
Company: govt research institution
Title: assistant researcher
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Salary: $7,500 a year

Experience: 10 years
Education: MSCS
Certifications: none
Company: Independent contractor
Title: whatever you want to call me
Location: Manhattan

Salary: $220000 - 280000 a year

I'm surprised the New York salaries aren't higher. $100-$120k for people with over a decade of experience and masters degrees, and long hours? Andrey, do you really not get paid more for your 14 hour days, or did you just omit bonuses?

I am also surprised by Andrey's mediocre salary although not bad, from the interview thread I thought he is a coding guru with tons of experience in his belt, which must be true because he wrote that DICE article, he is supposed to make obscene amount of money in the Capital of Capitalism.  What's going on?  Definitely I am making more than that in a place where cost of living is only 70% of Manhattan.  Hmmm, I need to think twice of going to NYC now...

He probably got stock options.

Experience: 6 years
Education: BS
Certifications: none
Company: Federal Government
Title: Developer/Project Manager
Location: Washington DC

Salary: $82,000 a year  + $30-40k from mISV

What is mISV?

Experience: 12 years
Education: BS in Electronic devices
Certifications: MCPs, CSNA
Company: Large software dev (60k employees)
Title: Useless management overhead
Location: West Coast USA

SALARY: $106,000 a year + 5% - 15% bonus

Used to be a network/server/DB guru than started to manage and learn the business side. Now doing somethign between bussiness development and consulting for our clients...

Side activities (2 or 3 men shops) got me to loose about 25K from my savings in the past 2 years. Too bad I can not code on my own..

Experience: 4 years
Education: In College
Certifications: A+
Company: Government Contracting
Title: Intern - Web Development
Location: West Virginia

Salary: $20,000
  (If I worked full time year-round as an Intern)

+++ salaries from people at senior level are not as high as I expected

I made $250K/year for about 3 years recently: 'golden handcuffs' after the company that I worked for was bought.

Wow....

Looks like individual consultants make a lot of $$$. How do individual consultants get gigs to work on?

Ken

Experience: 5 years
Education: B.A. (not in C.S.), Certificate in C.S.
Certifications: none
Company: Software project company, currently
Title: Contract developer (C#)
Location: St Louis, MO

SALARY: $62K annual at a permanent job I left in Jan.
$35/hr at a contracting gig after that, 3 mos.
$42/hr currently, six weeks.

No idea what's coming next, but I don't expect I'll stay at $42/hr.

Experience: 7 years
Education: BS Computer Science
Certifications: none that matter
Company: Financial Co.
Title: Developer
Location: Ireland
Salary: €100K + €30K Bonus ($127K + $38K)

Experience: 20 years
Education: Double Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Physics
Certifications: none
Company: Ummmmmm.....Fortune 500
Title: Senior Developer / Architect
Location: San Jose
Salary : 120K (but remember this is the bay area!)

It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation  between hours worked per week and salary & location.

Experience: 2 years-ish
Certifications: none
Company: Small (8 heads) web & rand() shop
Title: "Programmer" (Recently bumped up from "Jr. Programmer"...)
Location: Indiana
Work: Web development; ASP.NET/SQL Server

SALARY: $41,500/year + benefits & bonuses

Experience: Nearly 6 years
Education: Commerce degree (major in Management Info Sys)
Certifications: none
Company: Government
Title: Programming Officer
Location: Melbourne Australia
Work: Winform, Mobile/Smartdevice, VB.Net & SQL Server.
SALARY: A$58k + bonus

Experience: 7 years
Education: Masters in Software Engineering
Certifications: SCJP, SCWCD
Company: Small company
Title: Sr. Developer
Location: Austin, Texas

SALARY: $90,000 a year

Experience: 10 years
Education: bachelor's in MIS
Certifications: none relevant
Company: a trade association
Title: Lead Web Developer
Location: Washington, DC

SALARY: $83,000

Experience: Nearly 15 years
Education: B.Applied Science (Engineering Physics)
Certifications: none
Company: Applied R&D for resource industry
Title: Systems Manager
Location: BC, Canada
Work: Manager for IT infrastructure dept - servers, PCs, help desk, networking.
SALARY: C$70k

(Poor people talk about other peoples' money)

Software pays are pitifully low, explains why CS dept can't be new applicants.

typo, ...CS dept can't get applicants

Experience: 5 years
Education: dropped out of the best public school in the nation
Certifications: none
Company: mISV
Title: consultant / programmer
Location: Woodland Hills, CA
Work: CRUD programming for reasonably large scale medical processing application
SALARY: I am projected to gross $108,000 this year.  I also have a couple of products that should come out.

Experience: 8 years
Education: bachelor of electronics and telecom engg. (hnrs)
Certifications: none
Company: contractor for a large bank
Title: software dev c++ & c#
Location: Melbourne, Australia

SALARY: AUD $135,000 a year (in theory if I do not take any leave and remain in the contract for 12 months)
~ US $101000 (before tax)

Experience: 9 years
Education: BS x 2
Certifications: None
Company: Trading Systems
Title: Senior Developer
Location: Manhattan, NY

SALARY: $190K

Experience: 6.5 years
Education: BS
Certifications: none
Company: big uni
Title: Prog/Anal4
Location: LA, CA

SALARY: $95K 

Some people on this board know the man behind the handle.  Can anyone offer me a raise? I got skillz! :)

That's it! Screw this, I'm moving out of NYC...

:)

Experience: @ 10 years
Education: 2.5 years University (didn't finish)
Certifications: None
Company: Freelance Consultant
Title: MIS systems
Location: Australia
Salary: Varies about USD$130,000 last year

Experience: 22 years
Education: MS Applied Math
Certifications: MCSE, Sun Java Programmer
Company: Research group at a public university
Title: Senior Programmer
Location: Seattle
SALARY: 72,000

int main () {
  ...
  try {
      salary (22);
  } catch (const exception & e) {
      cout<<"why happened to you?"<<endl;
  }
      ...
}

void salary (int year) {
  if (year > 20 && pay < 80000) {
      throw exception();
  }
  ...
}

Experience: 6+ Years
Company: ISV
Title: Senior Programmer / Project Team Lead
Location: Somewhere in Ohio
SALARY: 70K

Agreed Andrey (except I'm in LA).  Whenever I read these, I always feel like I'm getting screwed. :)

"try {
      salary (22);
  } catch (const exception & e) {
      cout<<"why happened to you?"<<endl;
  }"

I'm very lucky. I made (and hung on to) a bunch of money during the bubble: not enough to stop working, but enough that I only take jobs that I'll love, and I don't sweat the salary. Besides, I started in 1984 at $24k/year and $72k/year still seems like a lot of money to me.

Experience: 5 years
Education: MS Computer Science
Certifications: none
Company: Small oil and gas ISV
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Houston, Texas

SALARY: $87,000 a year

You may be getting slightly screwed, but at least you live in a cool place, right?

Seriously, this happens to doctors quite a bit.  My friend who is right out of a very solid med school is finding that she can make nearly double if she goes to some crappy city over a nice one like Chicago, NY, etc,.

Experience: 12 years
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: None
Company: Finance Related
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: St Louis, MO
Salary: $95,000 + 15% bonus and great benefits

Great money with _low_ cost of living in the midwest!!!
(Have to admit that I'm probably at the high end out here)

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS in CS, BA in East Asian Studies
Certifications: Several expensive pieces of paper telling my bosses I'm competent to hold a conversation with them
Company: Tech Incubator
Title: I do mostly programming with some design and sometimes translation-y stuff.
Location: Gifu, Japan
Salary: About $25k USD with paid insurance, a 90% rent subsidy, paid taxes, and a few other perks.  I estimate its comparable to a $55k USD actual salary.

Experience: 5 years
Education: Commerce Degree
Certifications: None
Company: 1000+ Employees
Title: Senior Software Developer
Location: Somewhere in India
Salary: 430,000 INR

  I am embarrassingly underpaid compared to American and UK salaries.

Experience: 4 years
Education: BS + Masters from Ivy League U
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Salary: $83k + $27k bonus this year ($110k)

(not bad if I do say so myself)

Experience: 5 years
Education: MS
Certifications: none
Company: Small company < 50 people
Title: Engineer
Location: California

SALARY: $120k

semigeek

but your living cost is probably way lower than UK/US. i don't think the grass is alway greener on the other side.

Yes but an Xbox in India costs more than in the US and I can't afford a foreign holiday :(

Experience: 10 years
Education: Failed Comp Sci Degree
Certifications: none
Company: insurance industry
Title: Contract Software Engineer
Location: London
SALARY: £40/hour (equiv permie salary would be £80K)

Experience: 10 years
Education: college
Certifications: MCP
Company: Self Employed
Title: Owner/Director/Web Developer C#
Location: London
SALARY: £10,000 pa
Dividends: £80,000 pa

Experience: 10 years
Education: University (3 Masters Degrees, one is Comp Sci)
Certifications: MCP
Company: Independent contractor - current client is City
Title: n/a (development/CRUD)
Location: London, England

SALARY: depends what I take from the company (and how many days I work in a year) - max available would be about £140K (?200K USD)

Experience: 24 years
Education: BS and PHD on CS, BS in radio comms
Certifications: Several (MS, MIL and others)
Company: R&D for industrial automation (embedded systems h/w & s/w design)
Title: Chief Development Engineer
Location: Greece
Salary: PLEASE DON'T ASK ! (20000 Euros/yr)

Yes, that's true, 20000 Euros/year and here in Greece is considered a great salary. Most developers I know, get less than 10000 Euros/yr IF they're lucky and have a job.

Sometimes I wonder why still living here !

Experience: 2.5 years
Education: MSc
Company: Small software company. < 10 developers
Title: Senior developer
Location: Norway

SALARY: $65,000 a year

Experience: 10 years
Education: some university
Certifications: none
Company: Medium-sized niche software house
Title: Developer
Location: Greater London, UK

SALARY: £32800 (~ $60000), but moving here was a deliberate downshift. Shortly moving back to a senior dev position, paying £40-45k (~78k)

Experience: 12 years
Education: University
Certifications: None
Company: c.50 employees software house
Title: Software Developer
Location: UK (Not London)

SALARY: £33,500

Update: Forgot to post my salary

Experience: 6 years
Education: None
Certifications: None
Company: Small software company
Title: Consultant
Job: Building web soulutions
Location: Norway

Salary: 347000 NOK(~$56 738)

Education: None ???

Australia seems to be getting a good showing. Good money with good quality of life (and cost of living). Normally it's inverse, like London.

Experience: 11 years
Education: High School Dropout
Certifications: Various
Company: Vertical finance company (approx. 50 people)
Title: Lead Architect
Job: Guiding development
Location: Canada

Salary: $80,000 + 20% bonus + sizeable equity share

Experience: 18 years
Education: College Dropout
Certifications: Various
Title: Lead Architect
Location: Indiana

Salary: 100k, never work more than 40 hours, 50% 401K match so that is another 7500 once it vests

Experience: 10 years
Education: BSc (Math & Comp Sci)
Certifications: MCSD
Company: Smallish ISV (approx. 40 people -- 15 or so devs)
Title: Team Lead/Senior Developer
Job: Architect and write code.  Manage 2-3 other devs depending on team structure this week.
Location: Ontario, Canada

Salary: $95,000 + 10% bonus + get to telecommute 3 days a week.

Experience: 12 years
Education: BS CS
Certifications: None
Company: small software/consulting targetring NGOs
Title: Oracle Developer
Job: develop/maintain Oracle CRUD app.  Perform adhoc ETL of data into/out of app/DB
Location: Ottawa,Canada

Salary: $78,000 (+ good bennefits)

Experience: 13 years
Education: BS in Mathematics/CSCI Emphasis
Certifications: MCP (took the ASP.NET exam)
Company: Small POS provider for a niche market
Title: I honestly don't know...software architect jr maybe.
Location: Overland Park, KS

Salary: $85,000

Experience: 5 years
Education: BS CS
Certifications: SJCP.
Company: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Software Developer, Web Developer, Oracle DBA
Job: Write Java/Perl/PHP code all... day... long.
Location: Los Alamos, NM.

Salary: $75,000

Experience: 23 years
Education: BS Math/CS
Certifications: None
Company: A Municipal Bond Insurance Co.
Title: Consultant
Job: Data Warehouse Architect
Location: Midtown, Manhattan

Salary: $85/hour

Experience: 10 years
Education: BEng
Certifications: None
Company: Middleware Software Company
Title: Senior Consultant
Job: Help client's implement solutions with company products
Location: Toronto, Canada
Salary: $125K + $20K in bonus

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS CS
Certifications: None
Company: small web / software consulting company
Title: Web Developer
Location: Philadelphia, PA USA
Job: ASP.Net / C#
Salary: 50k + good benefits, 5% bonus

Experience: 6 years
Education: College diplomas
Certifications: Some
Company: Major manufacturing company
Title: Software developer
Job: Building a large software system, VB + SQL server 
Location: Toronto, Canada
Salary: $70K, contract

Experience: 10 years
Education: BS CS
Title: Lead Developer
Location: Philadelphia, PA USA
Salary: 100k + up to 10% bonus

Experience: 15 years
Education: MSc
Company: > 1000
Title: Software engineer
Location: UK
Salary: 43800£

Experience: 5 years
Education: BSc Hons CompSci
Certifications: none
Company: Large Bank
Title: Development Team Lead for trading system
Location: London, England

SALARY: 60k GBP + 45k bonus (108 USD + 81 USD)

semigeek--

I'm one of the better paid folks above, and I can't afford a foreign holiday either (have NEVER been able to do it yet--but I'm still hoping...)

US-based dev,

  I am surprised to hear that. Anyone with a $60K+ salary should be able to afford a foreign holiday.

to semigeek
It depend on what you mean by affording foreign holiday. For a 2 kid family with mortgage a 2 week summer trip to europe can be unaffordable. But if you are single and on to Europe like a backpacker or a family for a 5 day trip to SE Asia it may be affordable (even for you).

For me from Aus the biggest expense is the airfare, it's so freaking away from everywhere :(

Experience: 7 years
Education: Physics degree
Certifications: none
Company: Small software company
Title: Progammer
Location: Barcelona, Spain

SALARY: 20.000€ a year

Okay, I wasn't going to play but I'll disclose; here's my vocational info:

Experience: 5 years
Education: Self-taught
Certifications: None
Company: Small company (started 1998)
Work: Some VB.Net, VBA, and development of small-scale database apps (MS Access)
Title: Database Programmer
Location: Northern Virginia
Annual Salary: $60,000

Experience: 7+ years
Education: AS Engineering, about 18 credits away from BS in Comp Sci
Certifications: MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT
Company: Fortune 500 Consulting Firm
Work: Mostly VB6 Maintenance, also web development in ASP, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000
Title: Sr. Solutions Consultant
Location: Hampton Roads, VA
Annual Salary: $77,000 base, $5000 tuition, so far $7000 in bonuses this year: $89000+

Experience: 5 years
Education: B. Sc. Computer Science
Company: Fortune 500 Consulting Firm
Work: Automation of tasks in a Call Center (IVR Menus, Reporting, Desktop, Telephony Monitoring Tools), Functional Specs
Title: Consultant
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada (housing is cheap)
Annual Salary: ~$50K CDN

Experience: 2 yrs since graduating, ~2yrs of internship-level stuff while in school
Education: BS CS from a top-50 school
Certifications: none
Company: VC funded startup
Title: Developer (lately "lead developer" on an important project)
Location: Rockville, MD

SALARY: $75,000 a year

Experience: 23 yrs
Education: BS MIS
Certifications: none
Company: Telecom
Title: Project Manager
Location: Oklahoma

SALARY: $86,000 a year + 10% (or so) bonus

Experience: 10 yrs (learned on the job)
Education: 2 yr lib arts
Certifications: none
Company: Medical
Title: Sr. Programmer
Location: U.S. South

SALARY: $85,000 a year + 5% (or so) bonus

I'm amazed that people on either coast don't make a lot more. Housing costs here are probably 1/7 on either coast.

Also, amazing how low some of the salaries are but most seem to be above 70K .. personally I think that's pretty good pay.

My first job paid just US$42K and I'll be those who hired me thought I'm as good as I am now. I probably could have gotten more but I was happy to get that.

Quite honestly I still think I'm overpaid. Although my title is Sr. Programmer I'm really just a web dev who also does a lot of linux sysadmin, simple mysql dba (it's sad how little I do with mysql but if it fails, I gotta solve it).

i'm always weird about giving this out. So I won't...
Let me draw a comparison to Andrey ... I have a little more experience, so guess what this does to my salary? Further, i have always said that base salaries for Sr Developers in NYC range from 90k - 120 k. In the financial industry, you're looking at a 20% bonus at least.

Experience: 1 yr since graduating, 1yr of internship
Education: B.A. in Business Adminisration, M.I.S. concetration.
Certifications: none
Company: Large fortune 500 company
Title: Developer
Location: Dallas, TX

SALARY: $55,000 a year

Experience: 8 years
Education: Bach. in Math, Computer Science
Company: size of about 250 people, in manufacturing industry
Title: Senior Java Programmer (contractor)
Location: Detroit (area), MI

SALARY: $85/hr = roughly 175,000 before taxes (I pay about $25000 in taxes with an s-corp)

Experience:    7 years
Education:      B.Engg.
Certifications: MCSD
Company:        Bank
Title:          Software Developer
Location:      London, UK
Salary:        ~ $83,000 USD (Started with 1,300 USD in New Delhi, India)
SkillSet:      UNIX/C++, Oracle, Perl, Lisp

Experience: 8 years professionally, programming since DOS 1.1 and BASIC/BASICA on my IBM PC back in 1984.
Education: BS Exercise Science - Penn State University
Certifications: CPR, ACLS, CSCS, ACSM (all exercise and health related)
Company : Independant contractor, formerly large brokerage firm, large trading house
Title: Unix, MVS, OpenVMS and Windows security engineer and SOX compliance auditor
Location: Philadelphia PA, and central New Jersey area.
Salary: $115K base, bonus - upto $20K from security consulting, partner in 2 software development LLC, 1 ASP c-corp, 1 fitness consulting firm
I hope I frustrate all of those math, comp sci and engineering majors, because this industry is not that hard.

Experience: 5 Years
Education: Some College
Certifications: none
Company: Automotive
Title: Developer
Location: Detroit, MI
Salary: $55,000

Experience:  6 years
Education: BS Computer Info. Systems (State school)
Certifications: None
Company: [redacted]
Title: Network Operations
Location: Sillycon Valley
Salary: $100K USD

Experience: 10 Years
Education: Some college, many books, the net
Certifications: none, never persued one
Company: My own, contractor as Software Developer and or solutions provider
Title: Boss
Location: Germany
Salary: ~110k €

All;

Thanks for the overwhelming response to my post. Very interesting responses.

Salaries are always a touchy subject, and corporate culture keeps everyone quiet about what who makes what.

What I found amazing was the difference in pay among those who worked for a big company, and those who did their own thing.

Experience:    7 years
Education:    B.S. Engineering Physics, grad-school dropout (Computer and Information Science)
Certification: Certified Public Asshole
Company:      Medium-Sized Healthcare Company
Title:        Software Architect
Location:      Boston, MA, US
Salary:        $112,000

Experience: 15 years
Education: High school diploma
Certifications: none
Company: Consulting firm
Title: Senior Technical Writer
Location: Seattle suburbs (not Redmond)
SALARY: $114,000

4 years experience technical project manager / web developer.
PHP/MySQL/SQL server/WebQL/HTML/XML
$60k a year, but i'm probably overworked.

Experience: 10 years
Education: BS EE
Certifications: none
Company: Startup
Title: Sales Engineer
Locattion: CA
SALARY: $110000 + $55-100k bonus

4 years with PHP/MySQL (web developer), also working with Linux/FreeBSD/Oracle/JS/AJAX/etc
40k at a boring place.

Experience: 12 years
Education: BS
Certifications: None
Company: Apparel/Footwear
Title: IT Director
Locattion: CA
SALARY: $145000 + $7-30k bonus

Experience: 8 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Small Privately Owned
Title: Web developer/Web producer
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $65,180

should be earning more shortly!

Experience: 2 years
Education: BA Comp Sci
Certifications: none
Company: Large Financial Firm
Title: Associate (Software/Web Developer)
Location: New York City
SALARY: $75,000

Experience: 6 years
Location: UK, London
Area: Actuarial software
Pay: £45K

Experience: 4 years
Education: BS
Certifications: None
Company: Public Sector
Title: Application Developer
Locattion: MA
SALARY: $46466

Experience: 5 years
Education: BBA Business Information Systems
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 100
Title: Sr Programmer Analyst
Locattion: TN
SALARY: $70K

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: none
Company: small private company
Title: Web Developer
Location: NY, NY

I do back-end and front-end.

SALARY: ~$55k/yr.

Experience: 7 years
Education: 1 Year Tech School Certificate
Certifications: A+
Company: Tech
Title: Sr System Admin
Locattion: MN
SALARY: $57k

Experience: 7 years
Education: None
Certifications: none
Company: Small Private
Title: "I.T. Department" (Web dev., network mgr., etc.)
Location: OR
SALARY: $70,000

Experience: 10 years
Certifications: none
Company: Oil industry
Title: Software Developer
Location: Moscow
SALARY: $275,000

Experience:    9 years
Education:    Community College Dropout (Comp Sci), High School Graduate
Certification: Korn Shell, Advanced AIX 4.3 (nyuhuh)
Company:      Small/Medium Law Firm
Title:        IT Administrator
Location:      Providence, RI, US
Salary:        $52,000

Experience: 2 years
Education: B.Sc in Computer Science (SEng Option)
Certifications: none
Company: TELUS through TEK Contracting Firm
Title: Batch Lead Developer / Batch Support
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
SALARY: $26/hr ~ 9 hrs/day = $60,840

Experience: 19 years
Education: high school
Certifications: A+ Network +
Company: Fortune 50
Title: Dir IT
Locattion: TN
SALARY: $64K

Experience: 5
Education: College (A.A)
Certifications: A+, Network+
Company: Large Not-for-profit hospital
Title: Desktop Support Technician
Location: Santa Rosa, California

SALARY: $35,000

Experience: 5 years
Education: Some college / In progress
Certifications: Spirent Certified Performance Expert, Certified Fiber Optic Technician, Certified Apple Support Essentials 10.4
Company: Education
Title: Computer Technician I
Location: NH
SALARY: $30,000

experience: 1.5 years post-college
education: BS Computer Science
certifications: none
company: small financial service startup
title: developer/sysadmin
salary: $65,000/yr USD + options
location: north carolina, usa

love my job

Experience: What's that?
Certifications: Birth
Company: is for suckers
Title: Senior Fellow Staff Architech
Location: Boise, Idaho
SALARY: $13,245,100

Experience: 9 years
Education: none
Certifications: none
Company: Really small ASP.
Title: Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Location: New York, NY

SALARY: $53,000 a year

Experience: 8 years
Education: Graphic Design and Communication (5 years total college education)
Certifications: none
Company: (1) Real Estate (2) Semiconductor Mfg.
Title: (1) Web Designer/Developer (2) Web Editor and Technical Illustrator
Location: Bay Area, CA
Salary: Approximately $72,240
Skills: HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, CSS 1+2, .ASP, JavaScript, ColdFusion, Homesite, various crappy (and non-compliant) web editing programs, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, QuarkXPress

Note: it is my understanding that I am one of the countless underpaid web workers here in the Bay Area. I'm just happy to have the work though. No one wants to make a commitment to bring me on full-time though. Cheap bastahds!!

Experience: 10 years
Education: BA Physics
Certifications: none
Company: Startup
Title: Head Programmer
Location: CA
SALARY: $150,000 + options + benefits

Experience: 1yr professionally
Education: BA CIS Network Specialist
Certifications: none
Company: Wholesale
Title: Help Desk
Location: South Central WI
SALARY: $39,000

Experience: 4 years
Education: MS CS
Certifications: none
Company: big web portal
Title: engineer
Location: bay area
Salary: $95,000

Experience: 10 years
Education: Some College
Certifications: none
Company: Large Global Telecom Firm
Title: Desktop Technician/former supervisor
Location: Bay Area, California
SALARY: $84000

Experience: 5 years
Education: BS in Comp Sci
Certifications: none
Company: Large IB
Title: Infrastructure PM
Location: NYC

SALARY: $95,000 a year + 30% yearly bonus (on good years)

Experience: 5 years in the industry (but programming as long as i know)
Education: Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest
Certifications: None
Company: my own
Locattion: Romania
SALARY: 6000 EUR

  This is actually about 5 minimum wages in Romania, and a little less then being employed as a programmer.
  The 6000 are about 500/month from rent and maintenance of a couple of smallish business softwares. Actual work, now they're mostly finished, is from nothing to at most 4 hours a day for new features. The rest of the time I learn lisp and watch anime. Yes, I am bored :)

Female. :)
Experience: 5.5 years
Education: BS, Computer Science
Certifications: None
Company: 4500 employees/20 developers
Title: Web Programmer
Location: IL
SALARY: $62,000

Currently with non-profit healthcare company with 1 year prof. exp, and 3 years total.  Comp Sci degree.

55,000

NJ

1 year experience. graphic designer. new york city.
full time freelancer. $80,000 per year.

Around 17 Billion a Year

$35,000 CDN/Year

Experience: 3 1/2 years
Education: HS Dropout w/AS
Certifications: none
Company: Sales company
Title: Lead Programmer of a one man army
Locattion: Tampa Florida
SALARY: $50k

Software Developer / Graphic Design
10 years mixed experience
High School
~70k

Senior Systems Engineer
Large ISV
Some College
9 years experience
$110,000 Base + $15-$30k bonus per annum

Experience: 14 years
Education: BS in Computer Science
Certifications: MCSD
Company: Start-up
Title: Senior Systems Director
Location: Washington DC

SALARY: $120,000 a year + 25% yearly bonus

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS in CS (In Progress)
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 500
Title: Software Engineer Intern
Location: California
SALARY: $23/hr (~$48k a year if I worked full time year round, but then again regular employees are making more than me)

Experience: 2 years post-college, 9 years total
Education: B.S. CompSci
Certifications: none
Company:
Title: Sr. Associate (Programmer/Analyst) - Ab Initio ETL, Oracle, UNIX script and security, some system design, production support, etc.
Location: Deerfield, IL
Salary: $64,000 w/ good benefits (and I recently received an offer for $75,000)

Experience: 2 years
Education: B.S. in Comp. Sci.
Certifications: none
Company: 50person non-profit
Title: App. Developer and DB Admin.
Locattion: Washington DC
SALARY: $55,000

Male.
Experience: 22 years
Education: BA, PolySci
Certifications: CISSP
Company: German Telekom company :)
Title: Network Management Systems Engineer
Location: GA
SALARY: 90,000 + 10% bonus

Sr Unix Admin
Philadelphia PA
No college
92K yr plus 10K bonus

Experience: 2 years Programming + 3.5 years Tech/misc other IT stuff
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 500 company
Title: Programmer Analyst
Location: Omaha, NE

SALARY: $57K/yr

Total Years Experience : 12
Current Specialty: ASP.NET, Windows Forms
Current Salary : $98,000
Location : Atlanta, GA

Experience: 8 years
Education: Associates +
Certifications: Programming, Some Oracle
Company: Marketing & Sales company
Other:  3 Terabyte across 2 databases (not a data warehouse)
Title: Oracle DBA
Locattion: New Jersey
SALARY: $94k

Title:Developer
Skillset:Linux python java c++ and php mysql
15 years
pay: 96K +8% bonus
Location:Austin,texas

Experience: 3 years
Education: B.S. Business - MIS
Certifications: SCJP 1.5
Company: Public Company 900 emps
Title: Software Development Engineer
Locattion: San Francisco
SALARY: $80,000

Experience: 2 years
Education: tech school
Certifications: none
Company: mid size Dental offices
Title: Computer Systems Administrator
Location: Vancouver, Washington USA
SALARY: $27k -28k

Experience: 2 Months
Education: BS, Network Engineering
Certifications: None
Company: very very very large
Title: wireless network engineer
Location: mid-south US
SALARY: $54k

Experience: 7 years
Education: secondary school + BTEC Nat. Comp Sci.
Certifications: None
Company: Local UK Government with 5k+ employees
Title: Software Engineer (But the actual written title is Development Officer)
Location: West Midlands, UK
SALARY: £27,000 p/a ($49,500)

I develop in Lotus Notes/Domino, client and web (The usual fluent knowledge of CSS+HTML and also do the design of both Intranet/Internet sites - and a hell of a lot better than most design companies out there), also do/did the obvious VB/ASP, and in the past year starting development with Websphere and other opensource J2EE applications. I feel underpaid... and yet they still want to cut our wages. With the price of a 1 bedroom crappy little flat costing on average of $200,000+ - I'm not a happy chappy. But at least I have a job!)

Experience: < 1 Yr
Education: Some College
Certs: A+
Company: Gov. Security Contractor
Title: Technical Support Specialist / Help Desk
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: $45k

Experience: 8 years
Education: B.A.
Certs: CISSP (possibly CISM, will know in 2 weeks or so)
Company: Health Care
Title: Lead Network Security Consultant
Location: Midwest somewhere

Salary: $93,000 ( benefits - 401k, pension, insurance, etc.)

Experience: 0 years (just started in June 2006)
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: none
Company: MetLife Insurance
Title: Programmer/Analyst
Location: Greenville, SC
Salary: $55,00 plus great benefits, awesome hours and low key work enviroment

Experience: ~5 yrs + 1 yr internship
Education: MS + PhD CompSci
Certifications: none
Company: Internet company
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Bay Area, CA
Salary: $150K + large bonus

Experience: 4+
Education: BS of IT
Certs: none
Company: Small Company - Web Development
Title: Sr. Software Deveolper
Location: Honolulu, HI
Salary: $50k

Experience: 4 Years
Education: (working towards) BS in CS
Certifications: None
Company: A****l
Title: Data Support Specialist
Location: Little Rock, AR
SALARY: $45k + $1k bonus

Experience: 9 yrs
Education: BS
Certifications: none
Company: Private small
Title: Dev Manager
Location: Dallas, TX
SALARY: 114,000

Experience: 10 years
Education: BA in Economics
Certifications: none
Company: Large Public Aerospace Company
Title: Programmer/Analyst
Location: CA
Salary: $120,000 from full time job
$500,000+ from part time Internet Business

$130k/year + Bonus + Stock Options - Lead Sr. Database Engineer. Los Angeles, CA.

Experience: 6 years (some while in school)
Education: BS Comp. Eng, minor CS
Certifications: None
Company: Public Agency
Title: Software Dev.
Location: What happens here, stays here.

SALARY: $85,000 a year

Thinking about going back for an MBA and starting my own company but I dont know if I want all that stress.

Experience: 2 years 2 months
Education: BA in English
Certifications: none
Company: POS software company
Title: Tech Support Rep
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Salary: 52k (including benefits and bonuses)

Experience: 3yrs
Education: School
Certs: none
Company: Medium sized
Title: Software Developer
Location: Liverpool UK
Salary: £35,000

Experience: 6 years
Education: BS, Computer Engineering
Certifications: None
Company: well known public company
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
SALARY: $73,000

I should have negotiated a higher starting salary.

Experience: 10 years
Education: BSEE
Certifications: none
Company: Healthcare
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Atlanta

SALARY: $90,000 a year - crappy benefits - CRAPPIER commute

Experience:~10 years in IT
Education: Some College
Certifications: CISSP
Company: Investment Firm
Title: Senior Security Engineer
Location: Bay Area, CA
Salary: $120K + up to 20% bonus/1 day telecommute/100% 401k match (up to 4% of salary)

Experience: 7+ years
Education: Some college, Civil Engineering
Certifications: None
Company: well known public company
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Jacksonville, FL
SALARY: $86,000

Experience: 10 years
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Certifications: none
Company: Oracle
Title: Senior Consultant
Location: San Francisco, CA
SALARY: $80k + up to 20% bonus a year

I do everything in web development, from Graphic Design to User Experience/Usability Design, to front-end development (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, etc.), to back-end development (Perl, ASP, Java/JSP/J2EE)

Experience: 15 years (about 7 full time)
Education: MS
Certifications: none
Company: about 25 heads, sw dev
Title: Senior Software Developer
Location: San Francisco

SALARY: $128,000 a year

Experience: 12 years
Education: B.S. - Mathematics, M.S. (in progress) - I.S.&T.
Certifications: never bothered
Company: University
Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Pasadena, CA

SALARY: $74,000 a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: (never went to school)
Certifications: none
Company: Small Computer Services Company & for some guy doing SEO/Web Design
Title: Network Tech, Web Developer
Location: Kentucky

SALARY: $9hr, $8hr
When I was working full time for a larger computer services company I was makeing $23/year + 401k match.
I allso ran a computer OEM for a few months (would have come out to 26k/year)

Salary: $16,000 yr
Hours: 30/wk (although I'm still on salary)
Buisness: The Minnesota Daily (Univeristy of Minnesota Student run newspaper)
Education: Still working on BS in Computer Science, also have several degrees from the School of Hard Knocks.
Position: Assistant IS Manager

Experience: 2 years
Education: Msc
Certifications: none
Company: Medium sized oil company
Title: Project Engineer
Location: Norway

SALARY: $61,000 a year

Experience: 2 yrs
Education: none
Certifications: none
Company: One of the largest companies in america
Title: Security
Location: Southern California
SALARY: 40,000

Experience: 8 yrs
Education: none
Certifications: none
Company: One of the largest companies in america
Title: Director
Location: New York, NY
SALARY: 95,000

Experience: 2 years IT/networking, 3 years programming
Education: B.S. - Information Systems
Certifications: bah
Company: Private IS/IT firm
Title: Applications Developer
Location: Somewhere, Louisiana

SALARY: $50,000 a year and a reaaalllly laid back work environment.

Experience: As an employee? ~1 yr
Education: Soon to complete a BS in Comp Sci - Security
Certifications: Pursuing CCNA
Company: Cascade Fire Equipment
Title: General Tech
Location: Southern Oregon
SALARY: $12/hr baby!

Experience: 6 years
Type of work: Systems development, Gov't contracts
Compensation: $77 / hour -> $144,000 per year
Benefits: PPD Healthcare, 401k match (up to 4% of salary), telecommute fulltime.

Experience: 1 year
Education: Some College
Certifications: A+, MCDST, MCP
Company: Healthcare
Title: Desktop Support Technician II
Location: Tacoma, Washington

SALARY: $50,000 a year

Experience: 12 yrs
Education: none
Certifications: none
Company: Video Game Store
Title: Computer IT
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
SALARY: 395,000

Experience: 26 Years
Education: M.S. (InfoSec), MBA/PhD (Operation & Mgmt of IT)
Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC-GHSC, CCNA, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, Net+, A+, I-Net+, Sec+, DCMP, CCP (5 specializations), lots of others
Company: State of Texas Higher Education
Title: IT Manager
Location: Central Texas, USA
SALARY: 135,000

Experience: 2 years
Education: GED
Certifications: wtf?
Company: I work for some guys
Title: IT guy
Location: IN

SALARY: $30,000/month ($350 last year)

I design/make/implment/maintain software that monitors cops
(3 Servers 50 Clients(pc,gps,gsm,wifi,radar/laser) and 2 master update nodes(my boss and a juge(we trade him coke for info))

The software looks like google maps with a lot of overlays.

After next year I will own the software and will sell it.

Experience: 20+ years in computers
Education: High School
Certifications: 1 - no big deal
Company: Media
Title: Web Developer
Location: Tampa, FL

SALARY: $60,000 a year

Experience: Fresh Grad
Education: MS
Certifications: None
Company: Fortune 100
Title: Tech
Location: San Jose, CA

SALARY: $85,000 a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: Some College
Certifications: None
Areas of Experience:
 - ColdFusion
 - C#
 - J2ME
 - C++
 - Graphic Design

Company: Small Media Company
Title: Development Manager
Location: Saint Geore, Utah

SALARY: $38,500.00 a year

Southern Utah is Notorious for underpaying Programmers.

Experience: 3 years
Education: B.S. in Computer Science
Certifications: none
Company: Very large defense contractor
Title: Software Engineer (Level 2)
Location: Maryland

SALARY: $64,000 a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: BS Scientific Computing
Certifications: none
Company: Large Multinational
Title: Contractor/Consultant, Software Engineer
Location: Philadelphia, PA
SALARY: $120,000 a year ($60/hr)

Last Job:

Experience: 5 years
Education: BS Scientific Computing
Certifications: none
Company: Large Multinational
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
SALARY: $55,000 a year

Experience: 10 yrs
Education: some college
Certifications: various networking and security certs
Company: Medium size network security company
Title: Senior Security Engineer
Location: Midwest
SALARY: $108,000

Experience: 1.5 yrs
Education: BS in Mathematics
Certifications: none
Company: private company (50 employees)
Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Harrisburgh, PA
SALARY: $40,000

Experience: 3 1/2 yrs (2 of those as an intern)
Education: BS CS
Certifications: A+, MCDST, ITIL Foundation
Company: big ass insurance company, mutual
Title: Service Level Manager / Lead Tech Support Eng.
Location: new englandish

SALARY: $54,000 a year

Experience: 8 years
Education: Tafe (Diploma)
Certifications: MCP
Company: Financial IT Services
Title: Developer
Locattion: Melbourne Australia
SALARY: $80,000 (AUD) inc super.

Female :)
Experience: 12 years
Education: BA in Fine Art
Certifications: none
Company: Medium-sized web company
Title: Sr. Web Developer
Work: Mostly front-end web development.  XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML/AJAX, .NET, some C#
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Salary: 60k + 12% bonus + bennies

Experience: 2.5 years
Education: B.S. Computer Science
Certifications: None
Company: Large Defense Contractor (Think Lockheed Martin or Raytheon)
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Denver, Colorado

SALARY: $60,050

Experience: 7 years
Education: BS Computer Science
Certifications: none
Expertise: PHP/MySQL
Company: Small/Medium
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Washington, DC
SALARY: $90,000+/yr

Experience: 13 years
Education: BBA MIS
Certifications: MCSE
Company: Nestle
Title: Assistant IS Manager
Location: Atlanta

SALARY: $73,000

Experience: 3 Years Networks/Security/Consulting
Education: Liberal Arts B.A.
Certifications: MCSA, CCNA, A+
Company: Small
Title: Engineer
Location: Jacksonville, FL

SALARY: $50,000 + bonuses/expenses =around $62 last year

Unix Middleware Contractor
3 years university
10 years experience
120,000.00 USD

Experience: 4 years
Education: B.A. - Tech Writing
Certifications: meh, get a library card
Company: A 4-year old startup
Title: Senior Developer (hilarious)
Locattion: Chicago, IL
SALARY: $66,000

Experience: 13 yrs
Education: BA Music, MEd Educational Technology
Certifications: None
Company: University of Hawaii
Title: IT Specialist
Location: Pacific
SALARY: $46,000

Wow. I feel like I'm getting screwed. I do network administration, programming, support, consulting, etc. I need to get out of here. :(

Experience: 16 years
Education: MA Computer Science
Certifications: CNA, CCNE, MSE, MCSE
Expertise: .NET
Company: Large
Title: Senior DBA
Location: Florida
SALARY: 45k a yr  + BENEFITS

Experience: 3 years
Education: new Highschool graduate
Certificates: A+
Company: fairly large fruit packer
Title: IT intern
Locations: Wenatchee Washington

Seasonal Employee: $9.00/hour

Got hired the summer after softmore year in highschool.  I work about 40-50 hours a week doing stuff the full-time employees would rather not do.

Experience: 10 years
Education: MA Computer Science
Certifications: none
Expertise: Python
Company: Medium-Large
Title: Co-Founder/President of Products
Location: Mountain View, CA
SALARY: $1/yr

Experience: 5
Education: Bachelor of Journalism
Certifications: none
Company: Large financial services firm
Title: Consultant (Global Banking Architecture)
Location: Hopewell, NJ

SALARY: $130,000 a year

Experience: 2+ years
Education: BS in Computer Science
Certifications: None
Company: Small private firm in the VoIP Sector
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Maryland
SALARY: $47,000

Appears I'm underpaid!

Experience: As an employee - ~20 days
Otherwise - a dev on two OSS projects, extensive research work,  I made my own donkey kong clone at 12..
Education: Ivy league masters in CS
Certifications: A few done to see if they could be. Not on resume
Company: Its the biggest in what it does
Title: Information processing
Location: The bay area
SALARY: USD 90K

Experience: About a year
Education: CS
Certifications: none
Company: very large software firm
Title: Software Engineeer
Location: Minneapolis area

SALARY: $52,000 a year

peanuts. that's what.

Experience: 23 years
Education: BS in acctg. law degree
Certifications: cpa - but I don't tell anyone
Company: my own. very small. two and a half people
Title: Attorney
Location: Chicago

SALARY: Whatever is left after everything and everbody else gets paid.  More than 300k, less than 400k

Experience: 10 years
Education: 2.5 years university
Certifications: a plethora of unix apps
Company: Large well known mobile/cell provider
Title: Unix Middleware Contractor
Location: Atlanta, GA
SALARY: $132,000.00 USD

Experience: 5 years (professional)
Education: High School
Certifications: MCP
Company: Multi billion, multi-national company
Title: Senior Programmer/Analyst
Location: Minnesota, United States
SALARY: 85,000 USD

Experience: 3 Years
Education: MS in Computer Science
Certifications: None
Company: University
Title: Research Assistant
Location: Bangalore

SALARY: $3466 pa, (INR 156000). (But I love this job)

Experience: 3 years
Education: Highschool
Certifications: none
Company: ESC
Title: Computer Operator(datacenter)
Location: Bay Area

SALARY: 12/hour, & looking to move up in world

Experience: 12 years
Education: some college
Certifications: About 10
Company: Federal Government Contractor
Title: Security Analyst
Location: Denver, CO

SALARY 2004-Present: $72,000
SALARY 2002-2004: $38,000
SALARY 2000-2001: $122,000
SALARY 1999-2000: $90,000
SALARY 1997-1999: $50,000
You get the idea

Experience: 1 year
Education: UC Davis (just graduated a month ago)
Certificates: none
Company: Global software company, major and profitable
Title: Tech Guru (I shit you not)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $71,000

Experience includes, a year at Intel and 4 months at Bio-Rad IT. I think not bad for an RCG...

Experience: 20+ years developing software
Education: Some College (AA); mostly self taught
Certifications: None
Company: a (troubled) "Systems" Company
Title: Sr. Staff Engineer, Software
Location: Santa Clara, California

SALARY: $148,000 + great benefits + (occasional) bonuses
+ (underwater) stock option grants

Experience: 5 years
Education: BS
Certifications: None
Company: Automotive Financing Software
Title: Sr. Programmer
Location: Austin, Tx
SALARY: $70,000.00

Experience: 6 Years
Education: Dropped out of highschool in Freshman Year
Certifications: None
Company: World's most popular *nix company.
Title: Technical Support Engineer
Location: US, Texas

SALARY: $88,0000 (started at $62,000 6 years ago).

Experience: 8 years
Education: AS
Certifications: MCSE 4.0, 2003+Security, MCSA 2003, A+
Company: Physical Security Systems Integrator (DVR, Access)
Title: Sales Engineer
Location: Bakersfield, CA
SALARY: $60,000.00

Experience: 7 years
Education: Some college
Certifications: MCSE
Company: small network services provider
Title: Windows/OSX/Linux SysAdmin
Location: Mountain View, Ca
SALARY: $99,000.00

Experience: 8 years
Education: BS, MS in Computer Science
Certifications: none
Company: Large Defense Company
Title: Embedded Software Engineer
Location: CA
Salary: $88K/year

Experience: 8 years
Education: some college
Certifications: A+, Network+, Server+
Company: Small cap (Internet)
Title: Technical Support
Location: Denver, CO

SALARY: 40K (if ya live within your means, anything is a "good" salary)

Experience: 3 years
Education: BS CS
Certifications: why would a person get those?
Company: Large Pharmaceutical
Title: R&D Software Engineer
Location: Boulder, CO
SALARY: $70,000

Experience: 12 years
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: none
Company: 8 Years old
Title: Director, IT Operations
Location: US
SALARY: $122,000/year

Experience: 10+ years
Education: University Degree
Certifications: None (can't see the benefit)
Company: in Finance
Title: Senior Analyst Programmer (went full time from contracting)
Location: Sydney NSW
SALARY: $105,000.00 + bonuses (about 20% a year) + extras (about 5k a year)

Experience: 1 year, almost
Education: BS - Computer Engineering
Certifications: None
Company: Large defense contractor
Title: Software Engineering Associate
Location: Goodyear, AZ

SALARY: $51,500

Experience: 7 years
Education: AS college
Certifications: QSE tester
Company: IBM
Title: Technical Poject Mangler
Location: Austin Texas

81K -- 20 years Military

Experience: 9 years
Education: BS Engineering
Certifications: Lotus Notes, Java.
Company: small, 700 employees, terrible commute, but great work environment
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Atlanta, GA
SALARY: $105,000

I mostly develop in-house Lotus Notes and Domino applications (client & web).

Experience: 12 years
Education: Headhunted out of that waste of money called "higher education".  Wish I had never went.
Certifications: None.
Company: Real Estate and Auto Insurance.
Title: Senior Developer and Independent Developer
Location: Orange County, CA
Salary: Good Year 160K, Average Year 120K, Bad Year 100K

Corporate Senior Developer by day, and wild-eyed independent software developer by night. 

- GD

Experience: 2.5 years
Education: University
Certifications: none
Company: Large public company
Title: Security Consultant
Location: Boston, MA

Base Salary: $112,000
Incentives: So far the average is $47,000

Experience: 4 years
Education: B.S. Computer/Software Engineering w/ minor in Computer Science
Certifications: None.
Company: large
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA
SALARY: $115,000

10 years exp.
Education: some college
Title: Technician
Role: web developer, dba, technician
certification: a+, mcse (nt4.0), cisco (lowest level)
pay: $30K(US) + great benefits
location: city in the southwest

Experience: 1 year
Education: College Diploma (2 yrs)
Certifications: None
Company: Toronto Datacentre (un-named)
Title: NOC Analyst
Location: Toronto, Ontario

Gross $55,000 + Bonus + Overtime

Experience: 4 years
Education: AA Computer Network Systems
Certifications: Ex-CCNA
Expertise: Jack of all trades
Company: 200+
Title: Engineering Lab Manager
Location: WA
SALARY: $70K/yr

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
2 years experience
Master of Engineering in EE & CS from MIT
800 Employee software-as-a-service company
Software design and implementation
Boston, MA
$90,000 salary plus stock options and bonuses (5-10%).

Experience: 12 years
Education: BSBA in MIS
Certifications: MCP, CIBS, CIW
Company: An ISV
Title: Partner
Location: Ohio, US

Gross Depends on sales, but about US$120,000

Experience: 11 years in IT
Education: BA in English Lit
Certifications: none
Company: Mid-Sized Bank
Title: Data Warehouse Architect / DBA
Location: Southern Indiana
SALARY: $70,000 a year + bonus

Experience: 10 years
Education: BS Maths
Certifications: None
Company: Small, non-IT startup
Title: Director of IT
Location: American Midwest
Salary: $90,000 (USD)

Would one of you data mining pros normalize this after the thread closes and squeeze out some stats?

Experience: 8 years
Education: Some College, Navy
Certifications: MCSE (Win2000)
Expertise: A little of everything
Company: ~150
Title: Sr. Systems Administrator
Location: Mountville, PA (small rural town)
SALARY: $50K/yr

Experience: 2 years
Education: Some College
Certifications: None
Expertise: A little of everything
Company: >1000
Title: Desktop Support Technician
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
SALARY: $28K/yr

Experience: 10 years in IT & development (sql/web)
Education: Associates in Photography
Certifications: none
Company: 4 person private company
Title: CTO
Location: Philadelphia
SALARY: $60,000 + bonus & stock - been with the company for little less than one year.

Experience: 1 Year
Education: BSc Applied Math
Certifications: ninja master
Title: Firmware Engineer
Location: Boulder, CO

contracting fee:

$70/hr

Regular job:
55K/yr

<preach>
To those gawking over high contracting rates, keep in mind there is 30% tax off the top and it takes a while to build enough intertia to keep 40 hours a week up.  Most likely you'll either be hurting for work or so overwhelmed that you're completely stressed out.  Also, I don't like like mixing a full time job with contracting.  It sounds appealing but then you're working 14 hour days and every weekend just to keep up.  </preach>

Experience: 6 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Medium sized company
Title: Programmer
Location: Savannah, GA

SALARY: $65,000 a year

Industry: Software/Applications Support. Large company, but working on a small satellite office.
Experience: 20yrs
Title: Manager
Salary: 87K/year + avg $10-15k bonus

Oops, forgot to put location: South Florida

Experience: 3 years
Education: in college
Certifications: none
Company: Small Furniture Company
Title: Web Developer
Location: Beaumont, TX

SALARY: $15/hour

Experience: 6 years
Education: BSci Media & Technology
Certifications: ACTC, doing an ACSA now
Company: my own - independant contractor
Title: CEO - Toilet Cleaner
Location: Australia
SALARY: $ 40,000.00 - $120,000.00 depending on the year and how much i pull my finger out.
The Cost of living is relatively low however trending upward,so this will no doubt change the hourly/ project rate i charge.

Experience: 3 years as employee
Education: High School
Certifications: none
Company: Small
Title: Tech
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

SALARY: $6,000 a year

Experience: 10 years
Education: B.S.
Certifications: none
Expertise: jack of all trades
Company: ~300
Title: Director of I.T.
Location: Atlanta, GA
SALARY: $90K/yr

Experience: 12 years
Education: MS Comp Sci (self)
Certifications: SQLServer Certified
Company: big 5 consulting
Title: DBA/Tech. Architect
Location:

SALARY: 100,000 CDN + 10% bonus for last 5 yrs.
Conatract: 120/hr currently (Peoplesoft Upgrade)

Experience: 6 years
Education: BS (MIS)
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 500
Title: Quality Analyst
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
SALARY: $40,000

Experience: 10
Education: Technical School
Certifications: A+,Network+,Server+ HP APS Commercial Desktops, Workstations and Notebooks, HP APS Proliant servers
Company: Unicom
Title: Break FIx TECH
Location: East windsor, NJ

SALARY: $44k year (Peanuts because all the work & driving around I Do) should be more like (55k at least)

Experience: 4 years
Education: Some college
Certifications: No
Company: Hedgefund (Small - 50 Mil in Investment)
Title: Director of Information Technology
Location: NYC

SALARY: $80,000

BA - music performance
Exp 14 years
Salary 80k
Alabama

Experience: 16 years
Education: BS in Computer Engineering from a liberal arts school
Certifications: A few, but all expired
Company: Large consulting firm
Title: Regional Director
Location: Cincinnati, OH

SALARY: $130,000 a year + 25% bonus

Experience: 7 years
Education: BA in Physics
Certifications: none
Company: ~300 employees, dot com dept of media company
Title: Sr Sys/Unix Admin
Location: Chicago, il
SALARY: 90k

Experience: 2 years
Education: B.S. CSC / M.S. Information Systems
Certifications: No
Company: Small private company
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Mid-South Dakota

SALARY: $35,000

SD != Good IT Jobs

Experience: 15 years
Education: BS in Comp Sci
Certifications: none
Company: Small (vertical apps for medical industry)
Title: Manager/Engineer
Location: St. Petersburg, FL

SALARY: $105,000 a year

Experience: 1/2 year
Education: Some college
Certifications: No
Company: Privately held, 300~ employees
Title: UNIX Adiministrator
Location: Bay Area, CA

SALARY: $63,000

Experience: 1 year
Education: Still at University
Certifications: none
Company: Telecomms contractor
Title: Web Developer
Location: Ireland
SALARY: $18,000 a year

I'm paid well as interns go here, but it's still peanuts.

Experience: 5 years
Education: BSc
Certifications: none
Company: state
Title: Script writter
Location: Montreal

SALARY: $65k

Experience: just graduated
Education: MS
Certifications: No
Company: a big well-known company
Title: Software engineer
Location: Seattle, WA

SALARY: $85,000

Experience: 2
Education: Some college
Certifications: No
Company: Public, 130,000+
Title: IT Consultant
Location: DC

SALARY: $65,000

Experiance 8 years
Title: Sr. UNIX Administrator
Company: Small communications company
Education: B.S. Computer Science
Location: Denver, CO
Salary: $75,000

Folks that reply to this should not how many hours per week they put in. Folks in high level IT jobs often have to work twice as many hours to pull down $100,000 plus be on call and such.

Experience: 10 years
Education: None
Certifications: No
Company: eBiz Software Development Company
Title: Software Analyst/Jack of all trades
Location: ATL

SALARY: $71,000

way overpaid over here at 80k/year

i mostly sit at work and watch my wages pile up here- http://www.slackometer.com/

Experience: 7 years
Education: BS CoE
Certifications: none
Company: Healthcare
Title: Lead Design
Location: St. Louis, MO
SALARY: $73,000

Experiance 10 years
Title: Systems Engineer
Company: Synovus, Inc.
Education: Some college
Location: Columbus, GA
Salary: $53,200

Experience: 2 years
Education: B.B.A. Information Systems
Certifications: No
Company: Small Web Developer
Title: Developer/Network Admin
Location: ND

SALARY: $35,000

Experence: 1 Year
Education :BS Computer Science
Certs: Sun Solaris Administrator I
Title: Software Developer
Location: Washington DC
Salary 59,000

Experience: 4 years
Education: BS Computer Engineering
Certifications: No
Company: Google
Title: Software Architect
Location: MountainView, CA

SALARY: $165,000 + 20K Stock option @ $85.00

Experience: ~2 years
Education: A.O.S. Information Technology
Certifications: None
Company: Small Locally Owned Computer Repair Shop
Title: Supervising Technician/Laptop Technician
Location: NY

SALARY: ~$25,000

Experience: 4 years
Education: B.S.B.A Finance in progress
Certifications: Nada
Company: Selfemployed, Web Publisher, Adult Webmaster
Title: None
Location: Charlotte
SALARY: $450,000

All right for a college kid.

Experence: 11 Years
Education :AS Computer Information Systems
Certs: NONE
Company: Major Fortune 500
Title: Information Technology Specialist
Location: Westchester, NY

Salary $ 104,000 USD + 10% Bonus

Experience: 21 years
Education: none
Certifications: none
Company: Large well known public company
Title: Sr. Software Engineer
Location: California

SALARY: $114k/year

Experience: 1 year
Education: BS in Comp Sci, Math and Physical education (im not joking)
Certifications: None
Company: Midsize
Title: software engineer
Location: Massachusetts

SALARY: $65,000

Experience: 7 years
Education: working on BS
Certifications: No
Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Richmond, Va

Salary: 63K

Experience: 15 years
Education: Bachelors
Certifications: none
Company: Small Telecom
Title: Senior Oracle DBA
Location: New Jersey

SALARY: $130,000 a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: Some college (programing)
Certifications: none
Company: small division of huge media research company
Title: Unix Admin officially, + windows server, help desk, network, anything else pc related
Location: CT

SALARY: $50,000 a year

Experience: 1 year
Education: BS in Information Science & Tech
Certifications: Information Security Cert from NSA
Company: Midsize
Title: Professional Intern
Location: Pennsylvania
SALARY: $51,000

Experience: 9 years
Education: BS in Comp Sci
Certifications: None
Company: small startup
Title: lead developer
Location: Seattle

SALARY: $110,000

Customer Service Engineer (General IT support)
Experiance: 1st year
Computer Information Systems degrees
$45,000 CND /year
Calgary AB

Experience: 8 years
Education: BS in Business Admin (Accounting)
Certifications: None
Company: small consulting firm
Title: Mainframe Programmer/Analyst, COBOL
Location: Atlanta, GA

SALARY: $105,000

Experience: 7 years
Education: BA Comp Sci
Certifications: none
Company: Small/medium public company
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Cambridge, MA
Hours: 40-50/week

SALARY: $90,000 a year

Experience: 4 years
Education: BS in Comp Eng
Certifications: None
Company: big bank
Title: indepentant contractor
Location: iowa

SALARY: $120,000

Experience: 5 years
Education: BA in Comp Sci
Certifications: None
Company: Big Fin Company
Title: software developer
Location: Boston, MA

Salary: $75,000 + upto 20% Bonus

Ned: What kind of security consultant are you? How'd you get started? Thanks!

Experience: 17 years
Education: BS in MIS
Certifications: Loads
Company: Mid-size consulting outfit
Title: Consultant
Location: Northern Ohio

SALARY: $108K (incl. guaranteed 'bonus').

Journalism Degree - A State University
Boston, MA
Senior Web Developer
Large public company
$84,000

Experience: 1 Year
Education: 4yr BS in Computer Information Systems
Certifications: none
Company: Smaller Hospital
Title: Information Systems Specialist
Location: Idaho

SALARY: $29,300 a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: BA in CS/MATH
Certifications: None
Company: Tiny E-Commerce
Title: Technology Manager
Location: Chicago

SALARY: $36K

Experience: 2 years
Education: 2 year networking diploma & 2 years comp sci
Certifications: A+
Company: Big Blue
Title: Desktop Support
Location: Calgary, AB

SALARY: $40,000 CAN

Experience: None
Education: year 12 IT Double-major.
Certifications: none, but have done the CCNA material.
Company: ACT Department of Education
Title: School Assistant II
Location: Canberra, Australia

SALARY: $23.50 AU per hour

As a Web / Application Server Administrator for a small regional airline, I make about $60,000 / year.

Experience: 12 years
Education: Some college
Certifications: none
Company: I'm an independent contractor
Title: Contractor
Location: Jacksonville, FL (telecommute

SALARY: $50.00 an hour

Experience: 6 years
Education: Some college B.S. MIS
Certifications: CCNA(6+ years), CCNP, MCSE,Security+, several other industry specific
Company: Government Contractor
Title: IT/Network Manager
Location: Southwest VA

SALARY: $72,500

Experience: 6 years
Education: BS in Information Systems
Certifications: none
Company: Midsize (~700)
Title: Web Developer III
Location: Cincinnati, OH

SALARY: $60,000 a year

Experience: 3 to 4 years 'ish
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Large well known public new media company
Title: Web Developer II
Location: New York CIty, New York

SALARY: $65,000 a year

Experience: 6 & 1/2 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Large well known public company
Title: Team Lead
Location: Bangalore, India

SALARY: $17,000 a year

Location: Romania
Experience: 12 years
Education: BS in CS
Certifications: none
Position: owner of MicroISV
Work hours: 10-12 per day, huge stress
Salary: about $ 50 K after taxes

In theory it's a kingly income but in practice I got used to it and spend like crazy.

Experience: 3 years
Education: BA in Systems Analysis
Certifications: Pfft. whatever
Company: tiny automation company
Title: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Kentucky

SALARY: $60K + 4% 401K match + 400$/mo car allowance + bonuses

*Very* laid back company - I do what I want when I want.

Experience: 16 years
Education: Some college
Certifications: none
Company: Corp-to-Corp contractor
Title: Programmer Analyst
Location: New York City
Skills: C/C++/Assembler/J2EE/SQL super-guru

Hourly rate: 95/hr

I would say its equivalent Comes out to around 170k salary if you count all the sick days, holidays, vacation etc... Cant work entire year without a day off.

Experience: 13 years
Education: BS MIS, *almost* 2nd BS in CompSci
Certifications: none
Company: Large transportation company
Title: Sr Programmer / Analyst
Location: Memphis, TN

SALARY: $93,000 / yr + 10% bonus tied to performance

Location: NY USA
Experience: 5 Yeras
Education: None - Self Taught
Certifications: none
Position: Tech Consultant
Work hours: 40hrs
Salary: about $38k

Yeah, it sucks...

Head of Development Firm
Chicago, IL
Appx. $120k year

Experience: 6 years (ft), 3 pt (ft/equiv)
Education: BS Neuropsych, minor accounting
Certifications: CISA, CISSP, PMP
Company: Big4
Title: Senior IT Auditor
Location: SF Bay Area, Cali

SALARY: $95,000

Experience: 2 years
Education: no college
Certifications: none
Company: Fortune 100 Company
Title: Help Desk
Location: San Antonio, Texas

SALARY: Aprx. 13.50/HR

Experience: 7 years
Education: BA General Studies (Minors in Math, Chemistry, and English)
Certifications: MCSE: 2003, CCNA, CWNA, CISSP
Company: Small, private startup
Title: Owner
Location: Texas
Salary: $34,500

Experience: 12 years
Education: BA
Certifications: MCSE, MCP+I, CCNA, CCA(citrix), CISSP
Company: DOD Contractor
Title: F5 Admin/Cisco-pix Admin/
Location: Pensacola, Fl

Pay: I am a contractor/hired gun that gets an hourly wage of 36 bucks and hour or about 75k a year. I get paid by they hour so, I average out around 90k a year with over time.

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS ComSci State University
Certifications: None
Company: Defense Contractor
Title: Senior Software Development Engineer
Location: Boston, MA

SALARY: $73,000

Experience: No real job experience
Education: Still in High School (entering Senior year)
Certifications: none
Company: Large credit union
Title: IT Help Desk specialist
Location: Washington state

SALARY: $11.53 p/h (roughly $24k p/y)

Experience: 7 Years
Education: BS Engineering
Title: Principal Consultant
Location: Boston, MA

SALARY: $100k

Experience: 25 years
Education: BS Computer Science
Certifications: None
Company: Large Aerospace Corporation
Title: Senior Software, Staff
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

SALARY: $142,000 a year

Mike
Friday, July 14, 2006

Exp: In this position, 7 months. Computer tech in general, 9 years.
Company: Major national computer retailer
Cert: Apple Port/Desk Technician
Title: Apple Technician
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Pay: <$13/hr

The pay sucks, the hours are always decreasing, and the benefits suck. If you need an Apple specialist, email me. If you pay enough to get my wife to switch schools, I'd love to move to Arizona or New Mexico.

Experience: 1 year in 2nd Tier helpdesk support, (but was a retail Operations Mgr before college which helped on the resume)
Education: Double BA ITI and Psychology, AAS Telecommunications Management
Certifications: Criminology
Company: Fortune 100 who was involved in a scandle over a "party" a few years ago
Title: Project Coordinator
Location: New Jersey

SALARY: $74,880 a year
CR
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Experience: 6 yeras
Education: Some College
Certifications: None
Company: Medium 200 epmloyees
Title: IT Manager
Location: Detroit, MI

SALARY: 74k a year


July 14, 2006

Experience: approx. 1 year.
Education: Some College (Junior)
Certifications: incomplete CCNA (2 semesters)
Company: Contract Electronics Manufacturing (Government/Military)
Title: Network Systems Administrator
Location: Houston, TX

SALARY: $30,000

NOTE: Upon completion of any relevant certification(s), pay will increase. Upon completion of college education (bachelors) pay will double. Not bad given my low experience and that I'm still in school.

Experience:5 years
Education: BS, Art
Certifications: none
Company: Privately held media group (Newspaper/TV/Radio)
Title: Intranet administrator
Location: Ohio
Salary: ~$52,000

Experience: Nearly 1 year job experience.. 7+ years personal experience.
Education: In progress - A.S. Computer Network Systems
Certifications: MCP so far. (yes, I know thats lame.. working on CCNA and MCSE)
Employer: Global outsourced customer management company. 800+ Workstations in our site alone.
Salary: $31,000/yr.- Starting wage.
Location: South of Pittsburgh PA

Experience: about 7 years
Education: Some College
Certifications: took an MCSE (2000) course. Never tested.
Company: Public Housing Authority in the Midwest
Title: MIS Manager (redundant huh?)
Location:

SALARY: $60,000

My job's not bad.  If you can learn to deal with the Federal, State, and Local politics... ugh.

Experience: 10 years
Education: M.S., MBA this December
Certifications: none
University: IT
Title: Mac Systems Management
Location: Central Illinois

SALARY: $56,000 a year

Experience: 10 years
Education: High School
Certifications: High School Diploma
Company: Not telling
Title: Senior Developer
Location: New Zealand

SALARY: $94,000

Experience: 18 years
Education: MS in Systems Management, ABD (course work complete) for PhD in Computer Science
Certifications: iNet+ / iNet+ Subject Matter Expert
Company: research university
Title: Director of Information Technology for one campus and college; normally teach 2 courses per term although not officially "faculty"
Location: Chicago suburbs

SALARY: $94,000 when I teach all three terms.

Experience: 5 years
Education: B.S.
Certifications: none
Title: E-Commerce Manager
Location: Madison, WI

SALARY: $70,000 a year

Experience: 8 years
Education: College Graduate
Certifications: A+, MCSE
Company: Private energy company
Title: Senior Support Technician
Location: Dallas, Texas

SALARY: $58,500 a year

Experience: 5 years
Education: Some college (Mathematics)
Certifications: None
Company: Large Government Contractor
Title: Network Engineer
Location: Hawaii

SALARY: $80,000 a year

Title: Senior UNIX Engineer / Architect
Company: Bank of America Securities

Experience: 6 years
Education: B.A. Accounting (small college), M.S.A. UW-M
Certifications: CMA, CPA, I have some MS certs, just don't recall.
Company Size:25
Company Profile: Accounting Firm
Location: Milwaukee

SALARY: $166,000 a year

Title: Senior UNIX Engineer/Architect
Company: Banc of America Securities LLC
Location: NY, NYC
Salary: $107,000
Experience: 8 years
College: Some no degree (currently enrolled)

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS Computer Science
Certifications: None
Company: Very Large Tech Corporation
Title: Consultant
Location: San Francisco, CA

SALARY: $71,000 a year

I'm probably getting screwed compared to the other IT workers out here. Especially after having worked 15 hours today and opening my laptop to work a few more.

Experience: 9 yrs
Education: CS bachelors from CMU
Certifications: None
Company: startup
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Bay Area

SALARY: 135k/yr

Experience: 3 yrs
Education: CS/econ bachelors, software eng. from CMU
Certifications: None
Company: defense contractor
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Baltimore

SALARY: 70k/yr

Experience: 20 years
Education: Civil Engineer
Certifications: Too many to list
Company: Municipal Government
Title: IT Director
Location: Texas
Spent 7 years running consulting firm
SALARY then: $25,000 a month
Salary now: $62,000 a year
Travel $0
Tuck kids in bed everynight: Priceless

Experience: Just graduated. 10yr hobby programming
Age: 22
Education: B.S. Computer Science
Company: Small (6 developers) company
Location: Chicago IL
Pay: $45,000 + 15% bonus

Title: Web Designer
Experience: 10 years
Education: BA
Certifications: None
Company Size: 168,000
Company Profile: Hotel Industry
Location: Dallas, TX

SALARY: $81,000 yr

Experience: 6 years
Education: BS in MIS Bradley University
Certifications: None
Company: Engineering Services
Title: Systems Administrator
Location: IL - Not Chicagoland

Salary - 65k base, 10% bonus, plus 15% of any consulting work.... equates to about 80k.

Experience: 6 yrs
Education: some college
Certifications: None
Company: magazine with a wealthy niche audience
Title: (small company 6 people total) Web developer/IT Person/fix anything in the office (anything that has electricity running through it.
Location: Miami

SALARY: 40k/yr (30-59k from personal website I run on the side, depending on what antics google is doing with its algo)

Experience: 2 Months into first job after college
Education: A.S. Comp Sci
Company Size:25
Company Profile: Non profit trade organiztion
Position: Webmaster
Location: Arizona

SALARY: $36,000 a year + great benefits. I would estimate it at around $41,000 with the retirement/benefits. Not a bad spring board to the 6 digit numbers.

Experience: 5 years
Education: BFA
Certifications: none
Company: small web
Title: Multimedia Developer
Location: NYC

SALARY: $61,000 a year

flex hours, laid back =)

Experience: 1 year full time pre-graduation, 1 year post-graduation (professional) plus about 3 years of miscellaneous open source work (Gentoo Linux, Freenet Project, Rockbox)
Education: BS Computer Engineering
Certifications: None
Company: Large well known public company
Title: Software Engineer II
Location: Chicago, IL

SALARY: $64,000/yr

Experience: 15
Education: EE Drop Out
Certifications: too many
Company: Very Large Tech Corporation
Title: Lead Engineer
Location: Atlanta
SALARY: $90,000

Normal hours, crappy commute

Experience: 2 years
Education: A.S. Comp Sci
Company Size: around 300
Company Profile: Non-profit health care facility
Position: IS Specialist
Location: Alabama

SALARY: $23,000/year + education they are paying for.

Experience: 6
Education: UK Secondry School 8 GCSES
Certifications: None important
Company: Web Development Firm
Title: CTO
Location: Denver
SALARY: $85,000 per annum

Experience: Just out of college
Education: BA - Communications
Certifications: none
Company: School District k-12 public
Title: Technical Assistant
Location: Westwood,NJ
$40,000 + 3 weeks vaca + 12 sick days + full benifits

Experience: 7 Years
Education: some college
Certifications: None
Company: Large Well Known Outsourcing Company
Title: Field Services Associate
Location: Plano
SALARY: $48,000 a year

Experience: 6 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: State Gov.
Title: Computer Tech/LAN Administrator
I work for a state hospital 800+ employees. 450 of those are domain users.  2 Tech guys and an IT director.  I do a little bit of everything from unjamming printers, upgrading servers, configuring and installing switches, developed our Intranet, Implemented DHCP, Reseting passwords, setting up emails.  Anything and everything.  I am required to KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT A LOT, BUT I DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT ANYTHING.
Location: Marion, Va

SALARY: $27,000 a year

Experience: 2 Years
Education: BS in CS, MS in related field
Certifications: none
Company: Large Corporation
Title: Sr. Software Engineer
Location: Northern VA
SALARY: $89,000 a year
Work load: 40 hrs / week avg.

Experience: 11 years
Education: Degree in Criminology Minor in CS
Certifications: None
Company: AMLAW 100 Law Firm
Title: Director in IT Department
Location: Southern California
SALARY: $148,000 plus bonus

Even if its anonymous, people with higher salaries will be more likely to report...

Experience: 1 year out of college
Education: BS, Computer Science
Certifications: none
Company: ~2000 employees, Private
Title: Programmer
Location: MA
Salary: $40,000

Experience: 9 years
Education: some college
Certifications: A+ MCSE (NT4, W2K, W2K3)
Company: subsidiary of a LARGE world wide corp
Title: Lan Admin II (contractor)
Location: Oklahoma

I make $73,500 a year (NO benefits as I am an hourly employee- no sick/vacation, but even factoring this in my salary is above average for my title and part of US

Experience: 7 years
Education: Cisco Academy CCNA curriculum, other vendor training
Certifications: none
Company: Huge Corporation
Title: Network Technician
Location: Kansas, Oklahoma, or Missouri (pick one)
SALARY: $45,000 a year
Work load: 40 hrs / week avg.

Experience: 5 years
Education: IB programme, never finished college (made it 1.5 years in a BS CS program at a state, public, land grant, techincal institute)
Certifications: None
Company: 50-person Web services firm
Title: Senior Software Developer
Location: Reston, VA

SALARY: $54,000/year

Experience: 0 years - just graduated and 1 month into my first job (no internships or anything)
Education: B.S. CSci
Certifications: none
Company: Game Studio
Title: Tools Engineer
Location: Minnesota

SALARY: $54K + $3K bonus for meeting periodical milestones.

Great work environment, free pop, fun people etc...  Though I'm told that we will definately have periods of crunch mode, I generally work 40 hour weeks with a very liberal schedule - show up work a full day and make sure you show up to meetings, thats about it!

anyone have an IT job for me?
I live in oshawa Ontario (near toronto canada)
i have a computer programming diploma from durham college.... i currently make 2K a year....
I NEED A JOB
Will certify for anything
will do just abou anything

Experience: 3 years
Education: BS Computer Science
Certifications: none
Company: 5 employee startup
Title: Lead Developer
Location: Nashville, TN

SALARY: $36,000 a year

Experience: 13 years - but I'm only 30
Education: College drop-out
Certifications: Macromedia stuff out of necessity
Company: Self-employed
Title: One Man Gang - Graphic Design, CSS, Web, Flash, ColdFusion
Location: Lawrence, KS
Salary: Because my overhead is low (I work from home), and because I have great clients, my yearly number hovers between $85K and $110.  Can't complain.

Experience: 11 years
Education: MSc
Certifications: none
Company: bank
Title: systems manager
Location: Skopje, Macedonia

SALARY: 6,000 euros a year

Experience: 1.5 years
Education: AS Computer Network Technology
Certifications: MCP and studying for more
Company: Small IT company
Title: Network Specialist
Location: Biloxi, MS

SALARY: $27,000 a year $500/yr bonus
 Bills $85/hour - avg 60 to 70 hours per month

Experience: 5 years
Education: Undergraduate
Certifications: none
Company: internet
Title: senior project manager
Location: atlanta

SALARY: 75,000/year + 15% bonus

Experience: 10 years
Education: 3rs college
Certifications: CNE
Company: European Telecom co.
Title: Sales (IP Transit, Capacity, Fiber)
Location: Los Angeles

SALARY: Base salary $80K/year + commision =$160k

Experience: 12 yrs
Education: AS in CS
Certifications: MCP, IBM Systems Expert
Company: Small VAR
Title: Consultant/Developer
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $72K + $20/hr for client billing ($92K last year)

Experience: 6 years
Education: Master in cybernetics
Certifications:
Company: Finance company, Manhatten
Title: Senior Developer
Location: New York

SALARY: Base salary $132 000/year + bonus (10-15%)

XP: 10 years
edu: Barely got my HSD, some college, about 75% self taught
certz: nothing =()
Status?: Currently, Unemployed...
They Call Me: The Shtick!
my coordinates: Houston, TX
The Bread: When times are good... $135/hour.  When times are worse than bad... $0.00
I'm usually called when something gets really screwed up.

Experience: 10 years
Education: BS Business
Certifications: none
Company: Defense Contractor, multinational
Title: Senior Software Design Engineer
Location: Melbourne, FL

SALARY: $85,000

Experience: 2 years
Education: BS in CS (In Progress)
Certifications: Linux, Solaris, Java, and Oracle
Company: Startup with about 100 employees
Title: Developer (intern)
Location: California
SALARY: $30/hr (about $65,000 if I worked year-round)

Experience: 21 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Large Financial Company
Title: Unix System Adminstrator
Location: Newark, Delaware

SALARY: $97,000 a year + bonuses

Experience: 18 years
Education: BS Computer Science
Certifications: none
Company: my own corp. - independent contractor – currently design/architect/programmer/support/software marketing for the large Fortune 500 auto parts company for 16 years
Title: You name it. Lead application, database, web app developer.
Location: Telecommute to Atlanta from Mtns of Western NC
SALARY: Hourly. Currently $175k- $180k depending on how many hours I can stand to work. Usually work  >50 - <70 hours a week. The cost of living in Western NC is relatively high and rising fast.

As far as contracting rates, same as other have said. In NC at this tax bracket, take 36% off the top. Must pay for private insurance, no benefits either.

I’ve worked from home for 10 years now and it has its challenges. It would definitely NOT be for everyone. Motivation, concentration, resisting distractions could be a challenge. Difficult to stay involved in office politics. Also, you literally live in your office; it’s tough to draw the line between work and the rest of your life.

Experience: 1 year
Education: Cisco CCNA Final Test Uncompleted
Certifications: None
Company: Australia's Biggest Casino
Title: Management Information Systems
Location: Melbourne
Shifts: 4x12hr Day/Night Shifts 7am/pm and 7pm/7am.
Time-off: 4 days on, 4 days off
Days: Work ALL PUBLIC Holidays (inc. XMAN, New Year, Australia Day, etc.) Casino 

SALARY: Base salary $AUD47,500

Experience: 6 years
Education: Trial and error
Certifications: MCAD
Company: Software consulting company specializing in MSFT
Title: Software Developer
Location: Carlsbad, California
SALARY: $75,000

Experience: 13 years
Education: BFA from a State School
Certifications: SAG, AFTRA, AEA
Company: Independent
Title: Actor
Location: NY, NV and CA

SALARY: $4-8 Million/year

Experience: 10 years
Education: smatterings of cs
Certifications: None
Company: Private Startup < 20 employees
Title: Applications architect
Location: San Francisco
Shifts: 8-12 hours a day
Time-off: Weekends
Days: The regular
SALARY: Base salary 110k Yearly, 16k bonuses

Experience: 29 years
Education: BA, MSBA Diploma
Certifications: Numerous management certs
Company: Large Company 90k people
Title: EVP of Technology
Location: Northern VA

SALARY: $489k

Experience: 13 years
Education: PhD CS
Certifications: none
Company: Self-employed (3 online businesses)
Title: Whatever you want to call me
Location: Israel

Salary: $50k/yr + $100k/yr + $500k/yr

Experience: 12 Years
Education: BA, MBA
Certifications: None
Company: Software Startup
Title: CTO, Chief Architect
Location: Denver
SALARY: $150K

Left a project manager job 2 months ago... was at $115K + $15K.

Experience: 10 years
Education: some college
Certifications: none
Company: Indy consultant
Title: CRM expert
Location: California
SALARY: $90,000 a year

Experience: 400 BILLION YEARS
Education: ALL-KNOWING
Certifications: TOO MANY TO LIST
Company: THE WORLD
Title: GOD
Location: HEAVEN
SALARY: $_YOUR SOUL

Experience: 2 hours
Education: none
Certifications: dumb internet user like you
Company: lol
Title: shutup
Location: china
SALARY: $0.42/hr

Experience: 9 years
Education: MSBA
Certifications: MCP
Company: Microsoft
Title: System Engineer
Location: California

SALARY: $88,000

Experience: 14 years
Education: Doctorate in Applied Science
Certifications: MKS, KLAO, KAA, LAK, MAA
Company: mid-size company
Title: Chemical Mixer
Location: classified
SALARY: $1M

Experience: 8 years (Game Dev, Web, TV, Multimedia, Print, IT)
Education: BA Design (Multimedia), Diploma in Instructional Multimedia
Company: Architectural Visualisation
Title: Project Manager (was 3D Designer/Artist)
Location: Perth, Australia
Workload: 40-70 per week (project dependent)
SALARY: AUD $40,000

Experience: 10+ years
Education: some college
Certifications: MCSE, CCNA
Company: Top 300, Fortune 500
Title: Server System Engineer II
Location: Fairfield, CA

SALARY: $73,500 a year