• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Programming salaries are so inconsistent and these salaries by language become so meaningless.

    My buddy who works in Google makes 600k but can also call himself a Typescript developer. I’m a dept lead but I’ve spent the past few months fixing business critical code, so depending on how the question is asked, id look like a overpriced jQuery/Angular/bash developer.

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      5 months ago

      This is true, but the Stackoverflow datapoint was the only quantitative one I could think of. Anecdotally, I see senior COBOL developers making less than juniors but still thinking they’re paid lots