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Higher paying IT jobs in the DC/MD/VA area

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steppinthrax

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Maybe I'm asking the wrong forum as I'm curious about people that live in the MD/DC/VA area and are doing IT.

It seems I'm hitting a cap of only around 140K or so (per job) for senior developers, software eng, etc...

I'm just curious is that THE CAP or what's the next step. I haven't seen solid salaries for software arch or systems arch (maybe they are more). But I don't think it's a whole lot more. I'm thinking I would have to really start a business bidding on contracts etc... to make even more...

Anyone familiar?
 
Dunno anything about that area, but from what I've seen dev jobs in general seem to cap around 150k.
 
you could always start side projects to make money, SaaS or something like that. my goal is to match my regular income with completely passive side income within 10 years.
 
Market price my friend. Do you think you're worth more than $140k? If so you gotta find a company that agrees with you, but if a company only views their most senior, principal developers as $140k then that's where you are. Try Google...in the developer world I haven't heard of any employer who pays more.
 
Higher salary would likely be offset by the higher cost of living in D.C./MD/NOVA area.

It ain't cheap living out here.
 
i'm in the DMV area and my base is right around what you are mentioning in the OP. i've been in the industry for 10.5 years. i also get a bonus around xmas time and have incredible benefits. i'm just a senior dev now (although got promoted to senior software architect but that is another story) and i dont' think my salary is stagnate now. i've had an increase in my salary of $14k in the 2.5 years i've been at this company.

there is a chance i might take a lead position on another task, but i'm going to see if that will adjust my salary as well if i take it. it's internal so i'd still be with my company just leading another project. honestly not sure if i want to do that because i really want to keep coding.

i also know my project lead definitely has to make significantly more than i do, as he is the lead and he's extremely bright. so that alone tells me that the cap is higher than your OP based on what i'm making now.

if you are seriously looking for a new gig we're always hiring but are extremely picky with who we bring on. but we're always looking for good talent. feel free to send me a PM.
 
RaistlinZ said:
Higher salary would likely be offset by the higher cost of living in D.C./MD/NOVA area.

It ain't cheap living out here.
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It depends. Many live in the Burbs (like me). Where you can get a huge house on over an acre of land for much less than my friends got in downtown DC.
 
If you're looking to make more then you're likely looking at either starting your own consulting or dev firm or moving into management/director type role. It's not for everyone but has some merits.

I'm on a path from sysadmin to IT Manager and am finding it challenging to keep my team on task and get projects completed without doing them all myself. I can see why some people take sysadmin jobs and stay in them for years upon years. It's a completely different type of thinking.
 
management or sales. pick your poison. i prefer to deal with machines for a little less $ and more predictability.
 
do you have a ts clearance? 140$ sounds about right in dc for a cleared developer or some in-demand niche skill like storage infrastructure or vcp consultant, I've known ccnp voice engineers to make about that much too.
 
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purbeast0 said:
whatever he does on his free time he can do lol. i've never worked more than 40 hours a week since i've been here.
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That's pretty much what my last boss said!!!! In the real world bosses don't really give two fucks about what their employees are doing. As long as the work gets done. They start caring if the work suffers.
 
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