Is /g/ actually employed in tech? What do you do, how much do

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>>59482070
>/g/
>employed

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I work as a software developer, writing C#, I make pretty good money, and I've been in this field for almost 5 years now.

>tfw weekends are over in a flash

>>59482070
>nu/g/
>technology

>>59482070
>I write games for mobile phones
>Been at it for 3 years
>$86k now, started at $75k

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>>59482100
>He fell for the neetbucks meme.

>>59482128
How do you like C#? Currently stuck in java dev hell, considering jumping ship.

>>59482304
I love it, the best OOP language I've ever had the pleasure to use, and you get amazing tools to work with and a world class debugger

If I were you I would jump ship for sure

>>59482128
>not posting your salary on an anonymous image board

y tho that's the point of the thread

>>59482372
I feel uncomfortable posting my salary

Software Engineer.
$35/hr
C#, Java, and web (ASP.NET MVC).

I was hired as part of their modernization efforts, so basically all of my work is rewriting legacy applications and consolidating their stack.
When I first started, they had COBOL, C, Delphi, Java, classic ASP, plus stored procedures for 2 different database engines and applications that connected to 3 different database engines (MS SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2).

>>59482070
Php Web dev, $50 an hour. Currently rewriting a java application to use php.

>>59482513
Need a safe space?

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>>59482070
I'm working for intel.
7700k is shitting all over Ryzen
I hope they will give me cookie
I was born this way.

>>59482070
>What do you do,
PhD student

>how much do you make
450k NOK before taxes

>and how long have you been doing it?
2 years

>>59482168
>I write games for mobile phones
>games for mobile phones

Do you hate yourself?

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Working on an information system of a rather large real estate agency as a software developer, been working here for almost a year now.

I put in insane hours (which I hide) because I'm kinda slow but don't want to shit on other people on my team by not delivering, genuinely thinking of killing myself.

My salary is in some slavcurrency (so not real money), posting it'd be meaningless.

Network Security
73K
1.5 years

I stumbled into the position thinking I was going to be doing some kind of back end development but instead I ended up doing analysis and programming. Glad they switched my job to that because it's far more interesting than writing some REST api.

>>59482739
States?

PHP in eastern europe here, 60$ a day.

>>59482901
Only a little. The games are all dumb shit like slot machines, bejeweled ripoffs, fishing games, etc.

>>59483052
Yeah, US, more specificly a Chicago suburb.

>What do you do
Systems Programmer - Write LKM's for IoT start-up

>How much are you paid
42k a year + shares

>How long have you been doing it
1.5 years

>>59482070
After 10 years of struggling with depression I'm into computer science college, jobs here pays kinda good but I will probably take some time to get paid that well, at least 5 years of experience is needed for a senior position. But it is possible to get 80k/year

>>59482070
Network Engineer
~$150k
22 years

I'm a shitty computer tech at a shitty government agency in the shittiest state in the USA. There's no way out, I hate myself and I want to die.

Security engineer
80k
0.7 years

>>59482070
Just got out of uni. Employed at a IT-Consultant company as a junior consultant. Have a CS degree but I don't want to do programming.

Basically I'm getting certifications alongside helping the senior consultants with their work and other stuff like support for customers. Mostly just simple stuff like office 365, adfs and azure integration for companies, Also knock up and optimize a few powershell scripts here and there.

I make around 55 000$ starting, expect to be up to around 65 000$ next year and keep rising. That's without any overtime and all that other shit.

I'm happy doing it plus I expect to get more responsibility soon.

>>59483465
How did you get your job? Connections? Shit seems impossible. I haven't declared a major because of the saturation.

>>59483543
Well written applications and decent grades, plus I handle myself just fine at interviews.

My bachelors were also specifically targeted at moving a company to the "cloud" so that helped a lot too.

Junior sysadmin, working part time
10k € a year
6 months

>>59483352
Why not move or get a job working remotely?

>>59482070
Data scientist, 280k, 8 or so years, but 15y experience total in STEM fields.

Embedded syystems programming using C and some assembly
70k starying
Very comfy

>>59482070
QA in enterprise cloud storage project. Both hardware and software. I even wanted to talk about it once but nobody cares about QA = I made myself look stupid.
Eh, I guess I am stupid.

>>59483206
So, those games are made by actual human beings and not the spawn of a business executive shitting an Ipad with Clash of Clans loaded up on it? The more you know.

I like servers, networking, computers and shit, but my parents want me to get a university degree so I went into IT instead of a college that specializes in networking. First year was hell, doing basic Java and computer history. It just wasnt interesting at all to me.

Does it get any better with an BA in IT?

>>59484084
You are me.
I failed my IT course terribly since I suck at programming beyond bash scripts.
I still managed to get a good job as QA in Linux environment.

>>59482304
>Currently stuck in java dev hell
I think you spelled India wrong

Honestly the JVM is pretty good though. Jobva sucks but some of the other JVM languages like scala, groovy or gosu are pretty nice. C# is still far superior though

>>59482857
So 35k NOK after taxes?

>>59484084
It is IT, so no. IT is the field for pooloos and college dropouts. Do computer science if you want an actual degree. What did you not like about IT?

>>59482070
Suffice is to say that I make more in a month than you make in a year.

>>59483879
>only making 280k rupees with over 8 years of experience
damn, data science really is a meme.

>>59484016
How is qa stupid? It pays the same as development and you get to tell other people they fucked up and need to fix it.

>>59484323
I did not know being an ass pin cushion for fat gay NEETs paid that well.

>>59482070
I have a degree for long time now but if/when I finally get a job it probably won't be related because job getting is an asshole.

>>59484570
Only if you have no confidence at suck at your work.

>So, if you browse /g/

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>>59482248
>Implying it's wrong

>>59484589
No the job market sucks and I don't have much experience , lucky to even find a warehouse job.

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>>59484619
I feel you brother

No.
I work in forestry. $60k NZD a year.
I've been in the industry for like 5 years, my current position for about a year.

>>59484084
>Listening to your parents
LOL

damn all this time I thought I was being underpaid, but looking at some of the salaries in this thread, idk how y'all are even surviving

Javascript code monkey
180k a year
1 year out of college

>>59484926
Bull shit. Even in the ass crack of the valley they don't pay that.

>>59484951
The ones in the valley pay more. I'm in the Seattle area.

>>59484016
Run me through QA, senpai. I want to get into it as a non-programmer currently.

>>59484926
that is a load of horseshit,
180k a year after 1 year out of uni.....

Software Engineer at a big 4 company
$145k (as of recent)
1.5 years out of college

Bug tester / quality assurance team manager for Android phones and tablets.
70k+

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>>59484926

I'm a sharepoint developer. It pays well but holy fuck what kind of autist designed sharepoint?
>>59484084
Do yourself a favor and get into a nice CS course. Development-driven operations is the way of the future. Sysadmin-type gigs are going to go the way of the dodo in the small/medium business area as just using vendor services like Office365 become way cheaper and more reliable than hiring an actual Exchange administrator.

>>59482070

I'll give my salary in real terms, because none of you niggers do that.

-It takes me 4 minutes of work time to buy milk
-my savings rate is about $4000/month
-Median house price is $600k
If I were to start today it would take me 150 months or 11 years to buy a house in today's dollars

That's my salary.

C# dev working for a startup that's transitioned to enterprisey industry. Work in IoT UWP and EF

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I have a network of affiliate sites and dropshipping sites. I work from home and most of it is on autopilot now (~5-10 hrs a week maintenance).
Made 300k last year, on target to reach 500k this year.

>tfw not a wageslave

Dropping out of college was the best thing Ive ever done.

>>59484084
Took a 2 year computer technology and networking course college, took a year off and now I'm going back to a university rather than a college.

Accepted for both BA in IT and CompSci, not sure what I want to do. CompSci is just math and programming both things I don't like.

It probably will, they will eventually start start focusing more on networking. Every job around me wants a 3 year diploma, the local community college I went to is too cheap to do another year focusing on security.

I'm a software developer, I make $82k. I'm coming up on two years now.

>>59482070
I was hired by Google in 2016. Salary is above $150,000 annually as I'm involved with the research department. My excuse for visiting is for periodic leisure, something of which I have very little.

>>59483905
Where do you live? I've been out of college for ~5 years now, work for a big company in a really high cost of living area and make around 170-180k if I include stock to my total annual comp in my devopsy/systems position.

I'd like to move to a smaller area that's cheaper and do lower level stuff like this, working closer to the OS/kernel more rather than scaling services on top of it. I'm working on C and Rust as well as just familiarizing myself with how to write kernel modules before I try to make a transition. If you have any pro tips, books, or thoughts on where to move to do this sort of thing I would be grateful.

>>59482070
Team lead od small bsckend team, also lead dev. I code like 30% of the time at work now :/

>>59483238
Ayyy west burbs represent

>>59482070
Webdev, frontend + backend + sysadmin
$100k
All python server side

Picked up coding almost 3 years ago
180k/year senior react dev

>>59482070
$120,000 front end, mostly javascript.

>>59482857
You get paid to be a PhD student? What?

>>59485238
Care to give more info?

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>>59482070
Software engineer. I work for a chinkphone manufacturer and I work on the bootloaders. It's the most boring and depressing job I've ever had and it's hardly worth the 90k. Seriously, without health coverage and the generous amounts of vacation time I'd probably off myself or find a new job. I also get free food. I've been doing this for 6 years and it's eating my soul.

>>59486296
You're wasting your time. Every pajeet going is trying the same thing. Knock a zero off their claimed earnings and it's probably closer to reality ie. 30k to 50k.

IT Helpdesk, tier 1, $44K a year, entry level.

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>>59486086
>>59485818
>>59485114
>>59484926
>>59483381
>>59483316
>>59482857
>Lying on an anonymous imageboard about your earnings.

>>59486370
why is it depressing?

>>59486984
>if he makes more than me he must be lying!

>>59482070
Tech intern @ school, 8$ an hour, flexible hours, working with pretty high end equipment (Cisco & hp shit, fiber, 10gbe). Bretty sweet for 18yo senior, can come back during summer with a raise, get out of half of school, WiFi password

>>59487308
Oh, and got the job a few months ago

>>59486984
>fucking cabbage!

hardware guy
$85k
1.5 years out of school

I don't particularly envy people making much more so early out of school, as it is absolutely guaranteed theyre working over 40 hours a week
i can see a few 50 hour weeks when shit really hits the fan but any more than that you can kiss my ass I don't need that shit

>>59483206
And you somehow started off making 75k doing that?

Bullshit.

>>59487905
kek I work 9:30 to 5 and get breakfast and lunch

>>59485469

Sup moot.

>>59486984
This.

I thought this thread would be interesting, but then I realized 90% are just bullshitting. You are not all making fucking 80k+ a year.

>>59482070
GIS data specialist, 50K, been out of college for two years (probably going to go back for my PhD considering things.)

DBA/sysadmin in the development/deployment of secure ID systems; $74k CAD; 4 years as of yesterday.

>>59487957
>>59486984
It really isn't that difficult to make well into 6 figures within a few years of graduation.

Step 1: Know some things that are desirable, and be passionate
Step 2: Move to a high cost of living area, where you will be house-poor despite making a better salary than anyone else in your family
Step 3: Work for a huge software company (google, amazon, facebook, microsoft)

For in-demand skills, 80k is hardly unreasonable. If you think that number is unreasonable, you probably live in an area with a lot cost of living or not much employer competition to steal you away. That's fine, maybe you don't want to move and you like your life as is, and you can afford a house way more easily than any of these guys pulling crazy numbers probably, but take a step outside of your bubble and you'll see that numbers are pretty inflated right now and salary is not the end of the story- total comp is bonuses + stock.

Biotech informatics, $75k base/$90k gross, 4 years

php backend dev / js front end dev
varies from 2000$ to 5000$ mo
i live in turkey where everything is super cheap tho so its ok

>>59487954
Hello!

>>59485539
Flyover country. It helped to be born here

Tech Operations Manager
$75k/yr
20% annual bonus

I sell computers to corporations for HP.
75-90k a year including usual commission

>>59483352
i hate this fucking mentality, move overseas or something faggot, it's really not that hard

>>59482143
>nu/g/
/g/ has been the same for basically all of its existence. The only threads I can think of that are new are /csg/ and /fglt/

>>59483206
I was thinking about teaching myself how to make mobile games. It just seems like such an ez lyfe if you can make some semi fun games. How many games do you have out right now? And what would you reccomend I teach myself to do something like this?

No. Unemployed right now, going to school for compE. Thinking of dropping out and joining the military, and either becoming a codemonkey or a meatshield.

>IT Help Desk
>just got promoted
>everyone here still makes more money than me

>>59488495

The mobile lottery boom was a decade ago. You would have better chances making a VR game. And neither of those choices are "ez lyfe" careers.

In any case, I make 90k gross working for around half a year, working as a software engineer for a private company in the Bay Area that does airport security machines.

Kinda nice, but I feel like I'm getting underpaid looking at C++/Python/Javascript code compared to other companies which pay more and have more perks. Javascript getting pushed hard by some higher ups is pretty shitty especially when we already have Python.

>>59486246
Some countries pay master/doctorate studants a salary

$40K a year working for a small Traffic Engineering company. I mostly do traffic counts/data collection

>>59483352
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>>59487935
Mobile development pays well since it is still relatively new and few people do it.

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Any self-taught devs in the house?

>>59489007

Fuck I want to get into this. I actually started learning SpriteKit and tinkering with it in my spare time.
>nondeterministic physics make network play impossible for most things
why

>>59487957
80K a year in NYC or SF is like 30K in other places, bro, especially if they moved there and are having to rent a place.

That's one of the reasons why America is so fucked up right now. Assholes in those hotbed zones sold their houses to foreign investors, retired to middle America with a couple million bucks, and now those foreign investors are turning the thumbscrews on the American rental market. That shit's fucked up. We made these places nice with our effort, and the assholes who lived there sold the soul of America for an easy life. Do you think that the real estate crash was something that poor people created?

>>59489092
The only reason they are able to do that is because the zoning laws don't allow new apartment buildings to be built to increase supply and drive the price down.

91k

Software Engineer at large multinational. Only here for a 1year, and my starting pay was 87k

NC Raleigh area for cost of living reference

To all the people who think the salaried people here are lying: Literally lmao'ing at you. The guys I went to school with who wound up at Amazon and Google (SF and Seattle, so very high cost of living) have total compensation packages around 140-180, so I know its not bullshit. Just keep in mind that a large chunk of that is in stock etc, and a burned down 1k sq/ft house there costs over a million dollars

>>59482070

Tech sales
first year 69k, then 129k, then 223k, this year probably back down to 80k

>>59488550
Everyone here is lying about their income. Do not worry about it.

>>59489461
Do people like you even google search? Starting salary is 70k even in nowheresville. Starting at the Google in cali is easily 140k

>>59488265
Thanks anon.

>Entry-level helpdesk
>Don't get paid much
>But then again, I don't do much either
>Flipside is, my job security is doing stuff that the higher ups don't bother to do
>ie. Actually walking to people's desks and crawl into and under things when something becomes unplugged

Basically, it pays to have a retail/customer service background as IT.
>That and the fact the guy before me was such an asshole that having me around was a breath of fresh air

Still paranoid as fuck about getting fired though for browsing tech websites all day

I believe that a lot of people earn 120-150k in SF
I do not believe half of this thread earns over 90k
I'm not doubting these jobs exist
I'm not doubting people on the Internet have these jobs

I'm doubting that so many people on /g/, a board full of teenagers and autistic retards, fall in these salary ranges.
>some poor sap ITT is going to get gaslighted by trolls

>>59489646
One of my coworkers uses one of his monitors for hulu all day everyday. Another is always on reddit. I even walked in on the IT director watching porn one time. Kind of worried he may try to get rid of me...

>>59485238

Please teach me senpai

>>59486771

What city? Isn't $30k a year the standard?

How did you get the job?

>>59488710

yeah the ones with a fuckload of oil and 5 million people

I earn over 90k in a non-tech job, but have thoughts of switching industries. Is it too late if I am over 30?

>>59489654
Thats probably because you only go into worthless autist threads like FizzBuzz thread #01828, autistic battlestation threads, etc. Im not a teenager, Im 26 and have a bachelors and masters in CS. I pretty much only come on here to brag and argue with people about how C isnt the end all be all language.

Also keep in mind that a lot of responders are only responding because they make a lot of want to brag. Every salary in here is reasonable, I know this as someone who makes the salary, and has many friends in the industry in various cities as well. And as someone with common sense who can just google it.

Level 2 help desk
$48k a year (maple bucks though)
4 months in this position, been working in support for nearly 6 years though.

Head of IT / tech of an LA advertising agency; $100k/yr

25$ an hour.

Live in India but work for an american startup.
ez money

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>>59482070
What's the best way to get a work from home coding job? Currently learning C#.

>>59483206
Do you make them yourself or work as part of a larger company?

>>59488215
>house-poor despite making a better salary than anyone else in your family

Feels fucking terrible, man.

>Make four times as much as my Dad
>He owns a house, a boat, and two cars
>Lives in a 90% white small town

>I own...fucking nothing but fucking stock

>>59490848
Do you work for one of the bodyshops like Infosys?
P.S. I am an Indian aka pajeet

>>59489092
Theres a small town tht takes me to nyc
In a gour by train, thn i just walk a block n im there, rent is 400 dollars, town is in nj

>tfw ur getting 180k a year but not pating big city tax, goyim

>>59490052
No, but expect to be on par with college grads and people entering their careers after a few years of practice and learning.

>>59489774
Kill him first

>>59486246
>You get paid to be a PhD student? What?
Where doesn't you get paid to be a PhD student? Africa?

>>59490065
Fair enough

>>59482070
I do physical tech support at a government building.
I mostly change broken keyboards, install new monitors and move people's computers from one desk to another.
I live in a third world country so I make like 225 us dollars in a month.
It's a piece of shit job but I rarely have to do any work, so I basically spend around 90% of the day reading.
Been at it for a little more than a year.

>>59482070
Yes. Security Consultant. $120/hr. Around 12-18 months. The money is the only thing that keeps me doing it though, otherwise I'd rather be doing something interesting like robotics or stay home all day watching my Bitcoin go down the toilet.

>>59491232
A company that turns them out like an assembly line. We have over 50 games now, most don't make it big, but about 10 of them pull in over $1m a month.

The founders are all set for life and could just stop working.

currently ruby on rails dev in south europe, previously java drone, 8 years in
I make a little more than 20k euro/y after taxes. Comfy.

>What do you do
Selling drugs. As in pharmaceutical drugs; from IV fluid and common antibiotics to HIV drugs like Videx and Truvada

>like how much do you make
30k/year + 5 percent commission.

>and how long have you been doing it?
Last year

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>>59494104
>8 years
>20k

Wow you all suck at salary negotiation except me apparently.

I'm making $128k/yr + stock and I've only been at it for 5 years. I want to make way more though so I can retire early with a dank fucking house in Cambridge, MA or Newton, MA.

>>59491226
Find a company that hires people like that.

Yes and no. I studied law. But I'm trying to make a living with some websites I made.

My income is (still) embarrassing, but I don't have to leave my bed. In fact, I'm working from my bed right now.

Solutions Architect for WAN and UC. No university, just industry certifications.

Basic 60k with uncapped commission. Usually clear over 120 a year, this year i had a white whale close early so I'll probably clear 60k next month when i get my quarterly commission.

>>59494340
>128k after 5 years
>good
top kek

>>59482070
I think my title would be something like Web Applications Engineer, but I'm a tech lead for a small web-based startup. I built the whole stack by myself originally, and now a bunch of guys have been hired under me. Now I mostly do complex Javascript applications on the front end (rewriting stuff in react ES2017 etc).

I used to make $125k (I live in a cheap part of California) but I don't actually know how much I make after my most recent raise. My boss never bothered to tell me how much it was going to be, but it was supposed to be large. I haven't really looked into it yet, but supposedly it has gone into effect. That's before bonuses and profit sharing (I own something like three percent of the company).

Anyway, it's fully remote and I work probably twenty hours a week now. I've been traveling, and I'm typing this from Tokyo. It's pretty sweet, I can basically do whatever the fuck I want. Startups are great if you can find one that actually isn't shit.

>>59495071
I forgot the second part, I've been doing this around ten years if you count all my retarded teenage freelance forays and teaching myself. No formal education. I know I could be making more money elsewhere, but the flexibility, low pressure, and level of control I have over the actual product and direction are too good to give up. I'm saving a ton of money anyway, and if the company sells for a nice figure then that will easily wipe away any lost opportunities I've accrued by not jumping between gigs. I'm about to turn thirty, and my goal is to retire before forty. I don't spend much money.

>>59494215
Are you a pharmacist?

>>59495308
Nope. I'm the guy who sell those stuff to the pharmacists.

>>59482070
Yup.

I do tech support and customer service.

I make $3000/month before taxes, working part time.

I've been doing it for 4-5 years now?

I love my job, my boss is awesome, I just wish I got paid more (seriously, 4500-5000 would be awesome)

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>those phat american salaries
Why did I have to be born Slav?

>>59495928
move to America, Vlad

>>59494268
Not the guy you replied to, but I wish it was trolling... sadly no, tech salaries in Southern Europe are really that shitty, and price levels are similar to Western Europe. One of my coworkers is a SAP consultant with 6 years of experience and he makes 24k€ gross (around 18k€ net). A house here costs around 200k€.

>>59496411
fuck.

Network Engineer, £41.5k

>>59496499
Also, by "house" I meant a shitty 80 sqm flat. I wish I was kidding.

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>>59496793
>Also, by "house" I meant a shitty 80 sqm flat. I wish I was kidding.
Surely there must be upsides to living there...

>>59482070
IT manager.
55k USD
Working in the field 12 years.

I am actively looking because I know the pay is miserable.

>>59496651
You're doing it wrong bro. Leave engineering to the autists and go into technical presales. You'll get a comparable basic, if not more, plus nice commission.

I was once like you but now I'm free.

>>59496866
Yeah, for extroverted normies it must be nice since it's always warm and sunny and people are "laid back" (nothing is taken seriously and integrity doesn't exist). If you're introverted it's hell.

At least there's almost no crime I guess.

>>59482070
Web development (PHP focus) for a furniture retailer
$35k, midwest (yes this sucks)
Six months, first job in this field. I'm going to start job hunting this summer and fully expect to double my salary

>>59497035
Why not move? Too expensive/difficult?

>>59497049
>$35k, midwest (yes this sucks)
>Six months, first job in this field
Hey man, that's really respectable and a fine stepping stone. 35k in the midwest is like 75k in a big city anywhere else. Do you have a CS degree?

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>>59482070
>employed by a tech company
>in tech facing role
>cannot code
>can barely work a database
>job is pretty paint by numbers and I kind of lucked my way into it by having 10+ years of photoshop knowledge and not being retarded
>no idea where to go from here
>if I lost my job I have no idea what I'd even look for in another company
>$60k with 2-3% raises each year + a 7% bonus but I know I could make more if I swapped companies
>but I can slack like none other at this job
happy with it but it feels weird. Been doing this for 3 years now.

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Software developer for a defense company.

Nowadays I work on a tablet-like thing that's gonna be used by SWAT teams, nuclear power plant workers, soldiers and the like.

I usually do sensor integration and minor software components.

This is my first job in the industry (got my BSc in EE this february). I work and live in Hungary, so my salary wouldn't make sense to you.

>>59497071
Thanks! I don't; that's the main reason I was willing to take this job. It's been fine, I've learned a great deal, but I want the big paycheck that everyone else seems to get

Median for junior web dev in my city is $50k, I should be getting at least that.

>>59482932
Feels bad man, I am usually slower than my peers in college and too much of a perfectionist, I dont wanna end up like this ;_;

C programmer
€ 120k

>>59497219
Country? Sector? Experience?

>>59497145
fellow hung aryan here post salary

>>59482070
TLDR - Team Leader of Development & Research.
Essentially, I'm herding code monkeys. Doing this for a year. Was regular code monkey for 3 years prior. Apparently the sliver of soft skills made me ascend as their lord and savior, or something.
Making equivalent of $20k a year, might not seem like much by 1st world standards, but it's loadsamoney here in slavlands.

>>59497145
>>59497239
You can always impress us with you spicy kolba'sz instead...

>>59482070

>Desktop support in university
>$45k
>About three years total work experience so far. Two and a half being in a help desk call center environment.

You could pay me double, I'm never going back to the phones (hopefully).

>>59482513
do you know how anonymous works?

also, most people will tell you that you SHOULD talk about salary, bosses and managers say no because it fucks them over.

(seriously, what do you think will happen when you find out the guy next to you makes 10k more? they can either lose you or match it, better you not find out)

>>59497311
I always make sure to make my coworkers know my salary. NDA and all that shit, I just tell them a ballpark figure of 24500 - 25500 and that I keep it in my drawer which I don't lock

>>59486771
>>59489909
not bad, in Ohio i just hired a tier 1 for 35k (I think, like $15 an hour)

>>59488550
>>59489461
4chan, everyone here has a 9 inch dick too...

>>59489594
yep, even the janitors and tier 1's

>>59494885
He didn't say what he does (prob cuz lying)
but yeah... not bad for helpdesk

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>>59497239
I'm just an intern, so it's pretty shitty. I've actually just asked for a raise last week, can't wait to hear back.

It's 159 000 Ft gross, which comes out to about 106 000 Ft net because I'm still a student and get tax cuts for SZJA and TB. I only work 24 hours (three 8 hour days) a week, so it's ~1100Ft/hour net.

>>59495928
everything prob costs more, also most of these guys don't say where they are from (100k in cali can be less than my 65k in ohio... cost of living sucks)

Yes
I'm Sysops, I run servers/storage/network/security backends and deploy clients
I've finished my three year apprenticeship three and a half years ago.

Jr. Sys admin 32/hr, Ohio capital city

Fresh out of college, no kids, just gf. Bought a new car last weekend. Even with car payments and soon loan payments, it's comfy. Can only go up from here

>>59496955
That's pretty bad, feel you pain though. I was the only guy at a company being an admin of 500 PC's making $13 an hour, could be worse.
(found a job 2 weeks later making double that as an admin for 50 PCs...)

>>59491636
>Where doesn't you

>>59497456
that is some meki level wage right there, you are being exploited

>300k starter back in 2011
>660k dev/ops

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>>59497584
Nvm, I resigned in the interim.

Now I make 661k dev/ops.

>>59497238
Estonia, but the company I work for operates in Germany. Healthcare. 8 years.

>>59497802
>germany
>paying 120k for a programmer
Dream on

>>59482988
What's the field actually like? Currently studying network administration and architecture and I'm being pointed in like 100 different directions and told contradicting things by my instructors.

What's the best country in Europe to work in IT salary wise?

>>59498236
Norway or Switzerland.

Ahh yes, /g/
Where youre either on neetbuxs or making 80k starting fresh out of college/200k after 5 years
What a shitty thread

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>>59482070
Web/Android Dev.
25K€/Year
One year

>>59482070
Network Admin
6 Months
Not Enough.

Entry Dev doing Java + SQL
Almost one year
45k, but I work like 50 hours a week, so if I don't get that raise in a month I'm jumping ship

>>59497982
Get your CCNA and OSCP.
CCNA is pure Kool - Aid but it makes you look good.

>>59482070
Gym Instructor, 230k

>>59498285
>Wah they make more than me and it hurts my feefees. They must be lying!
I'm >>59493922 and it's true. Been in the industry over a decade in total and the rate is a combination of local salaries being competitive, high cost of living, and constantly retraining while documenting all the improvements you make. I've changed companies every 2 or 3 years and remained on good terms with all my bosses so when they get the call from my prospective employer asking for a reference, they don't sell me short. Then I ask for the upper end of the industry standard and let them argue down. I started on 30k a year on a helpdesk with no degree so it's just been a calculated climb.

Software Dev (Java)
105k (about 145k total comp)
About to graduate undergrad (3 internships)

>>59482070

I was the network admin for a four-location retail store for two years.

I made $24k USD a year because they hired me as general staff, and I never re-negotiated my salary when they found out the desperately needed an in-house tech guy and that I had experience.

Comfiest job I ever had, but I quit for a $10k raise and an infinitely shittier job. I'm working on pushing the $40k boundary now.

I'm literally a high school dropout though, so I only really have a shot with smaller companies that don't waste time verifying education credentials.

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For all these people posting silly-as-shit salaries I say post projects or gtfo. I don't believe any of you.

>>59499690
We're on an anonymous Jamaican limbo statistic exchange site, you don't have to believe shit.

Sysdev/SoftwareDev/Sysadmin/Event Manager at one of the big tech giants
68k euro a year(too bad most of it is eaten by taxes... fucking Ireland)
Been working in tech for 6 years or so.

I'm tempted to change jobs, IT is well paying but it's starting to get very tedious for me. I'd much rather do something less well paying but more fulfilling. Like woodworking or something.

I'm a contractor working helpdesk @ $13.50 an hour. FT employees make at least $18.00.

What do /g/?
Programming seems boring to me but I don't want to be a poorfag forever.

>>59499997
>Programming seems boring to me
It is.

>>59500049

By itself? I guess. It all depends on what you are programming. If the project is interesting it can be fun.

It's like writing. Writing an essay for school can be tedious as fuck, but writing a review of a game you like or some fanfic for a pairing you ship hard can feel like no effort at all.

It all depends on what you are actually building.

Though coding by itself is not THAT interesting, what's interesting is what Sysadmins used to do, and what now people called sysdevs/devops do, which is combining building blocks in the form of various other services(databases, caches, http servers, queues, processing architectures, etc) to make something new and whole.

Nyc here you have to have roommates to live here in a non ghetto tier area even making 6 figures.

>>59499997
Read a lot of tech news to see where the market is turning and pick up a few certs in that field. Security is big now so getting a few basic certs like your SANS or Security+ looks good to recruiters. If you're planning for the future, AI and machine learning is a huge deal right now so tertiary study in that field is a solid bet. Considering there are companies and government departments which outsource much of their code dev to places which automate most of their code production, I wouldn't bother looking that field unless you were very attached to it.

>>59482070
I'm an underpaid (50k) Hadoop Administrator and I've been doing it for two years.

Would love to move to something else but all my experience is with Linux and Hadoop, and it's all work experience and not schooling.

>>59500389
Thanks anon. I've been looking towards security for a while but wasn't sure if it was just a meme. Though considering the spread of automation and AI I'm guessing the field is bound to grow even larger.

front office software dev at big bank
£52k
a couple of years


I feel like I'm getting shafted.

>>59500616
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're young when you call and entire field of technology a meme. For a long time security was considered a nice to have, not a requirement and why 3rd party antivirus is still sold and not just included in the asking price of an OS (though M$ has made steps towards this considering they're the most exploited on the market). Techs were expected to deliver a shippable product that works as soon as possible. Nowadays with companies and governments collecting more data from people than ever before, that doesn't fly anymore as evidenced by the Yahoo hack and all of that information no longer remaining with the ones who collected it. Security is not a 'meme', its more significant place in the industry a product of the way everyday people use the internet.

>>59500389
>Sans or security+
>Real security
Lmao you it cucks make me laugh
Report back in when you can write 0days, then you're working in security
Setting up firewalls someone else wrote doesn't count

Aerospace Engineer (not rocket science)

Earn? Sweet fuck all compared to you IT types (I do it for the love apparently)

But I work on some cool toys and read g/ for shits and giggles

>>59482070
network and linux system administrator
i test and implement network equipment, mostly ethernet switches for medium polish ISP
i make more than 97% of polish society. still shit, ~25k$/y

>Sys Admin
>Fuck it I am the IT department
>£20k
The pay shit mostly because the company is really shit, lots of people quitting and replacements quitting because management is fucking garbage. They're also epic cheapskates as well so I can barely spend anything on infrastructure unless something is about to collapse.

Goddamn I want out

>>59482070
Web dev.

£45k

2 years.

Not going to be doing it forever tho. Currently own 3 houses on interest only mortgages 2 of which I'm renting out and sticking all the money in tracker bonds.

Once I get to 7-8 properties over the next 2-3 years I should be able to retire. I'll have paid off all the houses within 9 years and then I'm gonna be cruising along on the rent.

Gonna go freelance development as soon as I can. My company sucks ass but they pay well so eh.

24yrs old.

>>59500880
M8 he said he wanted to not be a poorfag on a helpdesk, not measure dicks on /g/ with people who think selling a bullshit buffer overflow to Mitnick is going to put him on easy street.

>>59485201
How do you live with yourself

Sharepoint dev sounds like a nightmare

Does mechanical engineer count as tech?
I work for a shipyard.

>>59501073
>IT peasants
Don't speak to me you people are disgusting
I sold an 0day for more than your yearly salary last month

>>59501147
it IS a nightmare, that's why sharepoint contractors get to charge $200/hr

>>59501174
ok kid :)

>>59489917
WTF lad. What countries don't?

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>>59501174

>>59501174
you've not sold shit you 13 year old roodypoo

>>59501249
>>59501258
>>59501272
I bet you children couldn't even pop a router :)

>>59501304
i build houses so your dumbass has a roof while you pretend to be edward snoden on the internet

i dont know what pop a router means but i did pop your moms pussy last night

>>59501304
Doesn't count if you just look up an exposed one on GHDB or Shodan, sport.

>>59493389
I used to have a job like that, and it was the best job I've ever had.

My current job:
>Technical Support Engineer (I edit DNS records, renew SSL certificates and plug in Ethernet cables all day)
>£23,000 per annum
>5 weeks

>>59498236
Estonia is meant to be the most IT-obsessed country in Europe, so probably there. Also, it's a third-world shithole for everyone else who lives there so you can probably live like a king pretty easily.

>>59501166
That sounds cool, what do you do?

>>59486246
>You get paid to be a PhD student?
Yes

>>59484160
~320k NOK after taxes

>>59486984
Why would I lie about the equivalent of ~53k USD?

>>59501389
I made more yesterday than you are going to make in the next 6 months pablo

>>59489917
>>59486246
Even US pay their graduate students.

>>59500616
Virtualisation and cloud shit are the big ones if you don't like programming. VMWare will cuck you like fuck to get their certifications, but if you eat dick and get one, you'll be set.

>>59501480
Dude that's easy as fuck, what city are you working in?

>>59501653
Manchester, in a data centre.

>>59501632
Seconding this. Citrix and HyperV are good second options if there are a lot of jobs for them in your area.

>>59484016
Fellow QA here. How's your job? How long have you been working there? Do you like the company?
>>59484461
>It pays the same as development
That's because QA automation IS development :^)
>and you get to tell other people they fucked up and need to fix it
And you get to be the middleman and get hated by the managers and the dev team. The former think you know nothing about the business and the latter think you know nothing about development. The worst thing is that they are not entirely wrong.

I work at Google. Make $500k/yr before stock options, fresh out of elementary school. Companies are absolutely starving for talent. Google Google Google Google Google Google I love Google.