How much money can a programmer earn per month at your country and your city?
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I moved from Australia to the US about 6 years ago. Once, arriving at the head of the queue at the supermarket I said something or other and the woman at the cash register (50ish?) started at my accent and asked where I was from. When I told her she commented 'I hear it's primitive over there'. I couldn't resist. 'Oh yeah', I said, 'we only got electricity last year'. She probably still believes it!
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Once, in a lecture, the idiot lecturer tried to convince our class that in my home town (he didn't know I was from there), the new-fangled electricity supply was via the roof guttering. I considered speaking out and showing him up for the idiot he was but considering that 1) I was totally bored by the subject and due to lack of self discipline would at best scrape a pass 2) He was one of those sanctimonious religious types that are actually quite vindictive and full of malice to all men - it might be best to keep my mouth shut. Rich
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A ordinary programmer can earn how much money per month at your country and your city? Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
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天气常如二三月，花技不断四时春。Saqib: Karachi Pakistan , $400/month (Should have More than 1 Year of experience)
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A ordinary programmer can earn how much money per month at your country and your city? Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
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天气常如二三月，花技不断四时春。Where I live (Copenhagen, Denmark) a programmer will typically not earn less than $6000 per month. That does seem a lot, but Copenhagen can be a pretty expensive city - and there´s also taxes (but then all medicare, education etc. is free).
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A ordinary programmer can earn how much money per month at your country and your city? Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
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天气常如二三月，花技不断四时春。It varies greatly by City/State at least in the US. Of course the cost of living has a lot to do with it (Living in San Fransico is 2-3 times what it cost in some place in Florida and Texas (IIRC) as well as other states. And "ordinary" is relative. But, in the area I work in, as a FTE (full time employee w/benifits) I've seen $4200@month up thru $8000@month for the same "ordinary programmer" job but different cities. I'm a "Sr. Programmer" but also a manager of my department/Group so I know first hand what I pay my guys and it's in that range... Of course, you also have to look at the US dollar compared to other countries, in which case I work for Taco's! :laugh: :laugh:
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El Corazon wrote:
But theoretically there is not an upper limit.
Perhaps, but practically I'd say there is.
Steve
Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Perhaps, but practically I'd say there is.
practically, depends on market, experience and education. for instance: Government/Military Civilian Only associates degree (no BS): 25K entry, 60k with 8 years experience, 100k top limit at 20 years experience With BS: 35K entry, 70K with 8 years experience, 125K top limit at 20 years experience With PhD: 50K entry, 100k with 8 years experience, 200K top limit at 20 years now those are the limits, depending on skills, location and other factors you can start lower and stay lower. Now switch to entertainment markets, which although more volatile, have also a much higher limit: No BS: 25K entry, 90K with 8 years experience, no top limit at 20 years (if you can manage royalties, profit sharing, etc.) There are markets with no top end, especially for software development. Any market without royalties such as government/military civilian, will definitely have a top end, but any market with royalty options does not.
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A ordinary programmer can earn how much money per month at your country and your city? Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
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天气常如二三月，花技不断四时春。The top is around $450 an hour. (More if you include travel costs, which they do at that level). However, a realistic number would be $120 as the pinnacle of normal achievement with the average being $40 per hour. Keep in mind, hourly rates do not directly correlate to annual or monthly salaries, however.
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guiqul163 wrote:
Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
I make more than you. :laugh:
CaptainSeeSarp wrote:
I make more than you.
Really? Obviously the government increased the relief founds for mentally disabled persons.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
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John C wrote:
U.S. citizens have a pretty skewed idea of what China is really like
Same thing with Africa, in fact it might be worse! they think we live in the bush and have lions and elephants as pets. i once chatted with an idiot who didnt believe im from Africa cause "they dont have electricity never mind computers". When i was in Europe in 2001(mostly Austria ans Germany) the people coulnt believe that were African and white! I think most of the world has no idea that South Africa is 1st world, not 3rd.
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)Harvey Saayman wrote:
Same thing with Africa, in fact it might be worse! they think we live in the bush and have lions and elephants as pets. i once chatted with an idiot who didnt believe im from Africa cause "they dont have electricity never mind computers".
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The minimum is about $3000 a month here. From that you need to pay $1000 in taxes and another $1000 for housing. But medical care, schooling, pensions etc are payed by the government. jhaga
How to earn $120/month.
jhaga wrote:
The minimum is about $3000 a month here. From that you need to pay $1000 in taxes and another $1000 for housing. But medical care, schooling, pensions etc are payed by the government.
;)
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A ordinary programmer can earn how much money per month at your country and your city? Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
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天气常如二三月，花技不断四时春。(All with today's exchange rate, of course) In Poland I have met programmers earning from $530 to $2000 after taxes (net pay). $530 is an insult to a software developer even in Poland, but I really met people who earned that at the very beginning of their career - they were not much skilled and/or crappy negotiators. In newspapers they will tell you that programmers earn $3500/month. It's a lie, I don't know what it is based on, I believe there are some mythical figures who can get such a salary but it's far from average in my opinion (I read IT administrators are the best paid IT workers, btw.).
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A ordinary programmer can earn how much money per month at your country and your city? Me: Yantai China, 350$/month
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天气常如二三月，花技不断四时春。In Bulgaria the salaries for C++ developer (5+ years of exp) are approximately $1100 - $1500 per month after the taxes. It also depends from the company. For example the developers work for VMware, Oracle or SAP usually earns $2000+. That was the situation one year ago, I don’t have current information.
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I do, but I was only counting my 40 hour a week, day job. My estimate of an average is probably a little high for tassie, but a little low for the mainland. I've say that devs in Sydney probably make the most, or perhaps Melbourne. I'd expect Sydney devs to be the worst off, cost of housing there is obscene. But, Melb and Syd is where the vast majority of dev jobs are.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
Are there a lot of dev jobs in Tassie? Mostly in Hobart I imagine? If the housing is considerably lower I guess you could be just as comfortable there as in the bigger cities. If rent is $60-70 more expensive, a salary higher by roughly $5-6k should equalise that. And in the major cities you've got a much bigger pool of new opportunities. Many disadvantages too though - traffic, overcrowding, lack of parking etc.
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Are there a lot of dev jobs in Tassie? Mostly in Hobart I imagine? If the housing is considerably lower I guess you could be just as comfortable there as in the bigger cities. If rent is $60-70 more expensive, a salary higher by roughly $5-6k should equalise that. And in the major cities you've got a much bigger pool of new opportunities. Many disadvantages too though - traffic, overcrowding, lack of parking etc.
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Many disadvantages too though
Tassie is a beautiful place but it does have a major drawback all its own: TEMPERATURE! I go down each year at Christmas time & often struggle with it. Went down in July one year, never again! ;P To all you Canadians thinking I'm a wuss, where I live, it's considered cold when it drops below 15 deg C.
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