Do you think the reason most high tech folks are paid high salaries...

[etalns]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Qosis

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Most "high tech folks" that I know don't consistantly buy new pc parts or set up new machines.

What's your definition of "high salaries" anyway?

35,000+

How old are you or where do you live that 35k is a high salary?

28 living in ontario

What the hell?? You're speaking about Canadian dollars too?

$35k wouldn't be enough for 2 months here.

Then again...I guess it depends on how much stupid crap you buy, something I seem to be incredibly good at.

You spend more than $35k in two months?

Around that much in two months.

 

[desteffy]

0/10

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Qosis

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Most "high tech folks" that I know don't consistantly buy new pc parts or set up new machines.

What's your definition of "high salaries" anyway?

35,000+

That's a high salary? That's practically the minimum for any job requiring a college degree.

What would you consider highly paid then?

$100k!

i seriously doubt there are any high tech folks making that amount / year

Average salary for a nuclear/mining engineer (the two most highly paid engineering degrees) is about 80k, and if that's average, there are probably some well into the six-figure range.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Most "high tech folks" that I know don't consistantly buy new pc parts or set up new machines.

What's your definition of "high salaries" anyway?

35,000+

That's a high salary? That's practically the minimum for any job requiring a college degree.

What would you consider highly paid then?

Depends on your experience level. Many of the "high tech" people I know were paid > $50,000 / year out of college.

heh...yeah..then the recession happened.

now there are so many skilled folks out there....employers can afford to pay lower salaries

 

[Transition]

Eh, you Canadians are dumb. Hoser.

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: Transition
Eh, you Canadians are dumb. Hoser.

You're an ignorant asshat.

 

[Transition]

Originally posted by: Qosis

Originally posted by: Transition
Eh, you Canadians are dumb. Hoser.

You're an ignorant asshat.

Me not ignorant.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Jero
heh...yeah..then the recession happened.

now there are so many skilled folks out there....employers can afford to pay lower salaries

This was in 2002, beginning of the recession.

 

[FoBoT]

no

that makes no sense

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Qosis
Around that much in two months.

How much of that is your parent's money?

 

[Leejai]

most CRM developers at my company are contractors and i'm sure they all make 100k+

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Most "high tech folks" that I know don't consistantly buy new pc parts or set up new machines.

What's your definition of "high salaries" anyway?

35,000+

That's a high salary? That's practically the minimum for any job requiring a college degree.

What would you consider highly paid then?

Depends on your experience level. Many of the "high tech" people I know were paid > $50,000 / year out of college.

heh...yeah..then the recession happened.

now there are so many skilled folks out there....employers can afford to pay lower salaries

Well, the average starting salary of a Computer Science grad this year was $50,000, Computer engineering: $52,000, Electrical Engineering: $50,000. I would consider those people to be high tech.

http://www.jobweb.com/SalaryInfo/salsur04.htm

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: rockyct

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Most "high tech folks" that I know don't consistantly buy new pc parts or set up new machines.

What's your definition of "high salaries" anyway?

35,000+

That's a high salary? That's practically the minimum for any job requiring a college degree.

What would you consider highly paid then?

Depends on your experience level. Many of the "high tech" people I know were paid > $50,000 / year out of college.

heh...yeah..then the recession happened.

now there are so many skilled folks out there....employers can afford to pay lower salaries

Well, the average starting salary of a Computer Science grad this year was $50,000, Computer engineering: $52,000, Electrical Engineering: $50,000. I would consider those people to be high tech.

http://www.jobweb.com/SalaryInfo/salsur04.htm

That may be the case. Just remember, not everyone is that fortunate. I know several high tech workers who (after the recession) needed to find less paying jobs (still in high tech) just to survive

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: Gatos
35,000 is nothing

i wouldn't get out of bed in the morning to go to work for 35k

 

[yllus]

Remind me to laugh at you mercilessly if I ever catch you commenting in economic threads.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Jero
heh...yeah..then the recession happened.

now there are so many skilled folks out there....employers can afford to pay lower salaries

This was in 2002, beginning of the recession.

The recession began in the beginning of 2001, not 2002.

I graduated with my CS degree in 2001 from a no-name college and managed to find a temp job that turned into a perm job in mid 2002 starting at 50k in an area with a fairly low cost of living and very few opportunities for CS types.

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Qosis
Around that much in two months.

How much of that is your parent's money?

100%

Go ahead, try and insult me 😉 I'm more than glad to mooch.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: yllus
Remind me to laugh at you mercilessly if I ever catch you commenting in economic threads.

do you really think i'm THAT immature?

sheesh.

 

[Squisher]

My wife got her GED and made $35K after working two years.

 

[flot]

If you have a CS degree, you should still be able to start out in the $45k-55k range. (American $)

I would consider "high paying" to be in the $75k and up range, for an area with reasonable cost of living, $90k and up for somewhere with a high cost of living.

I'd say 1 out of 30 software professionals I know spends any sort of significant $ on computer hardware and upgrades.

If you had to be 30 or older to purchase a "high end" video card, all the manufacturers would go out of business.

 

[amoeba]

High tech workers are not as highly paid as high tech managers.


But managers also bear a higher risk of being laid off compared to the technical folks, so risk reward.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: flot
If you have a CS degree, you should still be able to start out in the $45k-55k range. (American $)

I would consider "high paying" to be in the $75k and up range, for an area with reasonable cost of living, $90k and up for somewhere with a high cost of living.

I'd say 1 out of 30 software professionals I know spends any sort of significant $ on computer hardware and upgrades.

If you had to be 30 or older to purchase a "high end" video card, all the manufacturers would go out of business.

LOL.

I'm a software professional and I haven't upgraded my home pc since I built it 2 years ago. And I'm a gamer too. My xp 1700 / GF3 system had done fine with all the games I wanted to play. Of course, I would like to upgrade now so I can play some games like HL2 and Farcry and Battlefield 2 when it comes out next year.

 

[Martin]

The average for our engineering co-op/internship program is 40k (that's for 2nd and 3rd year students), with starting salaries close to 50k. That's "well paid", highly paid would be 75k+ IMO.

 

[MattCo]

Its funny how people all assume everyone has the same cost of living (OP and replies).

It all depends on the situation, if you were making 40k anually and living in L.A. you probably couldn't eat. If you did the same in certain other places you could live very well.

-MC

 

[blahblah99]

No, high tech folks get paid HIGH salaries cause they sacrificed their teenage years studying while you minimum wage folks spent your time having fun in school chasing girls and getting drunk.