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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">There are superstars and slackers
everywhere. I knew a .Net developer who was getting $75/hr as a
1099 contractor (no agency) for 6 month contracts. As far as the
median goes, InformationWeek's 2013 Salary Survey has the median a
bit lower than that also, so $99K does seem high. <br>
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$99K/year ($49/hr) isn't that much any more - a cousin just got a
manual labor job paying $39/hr, and off-duty Phoenix cops make a
"reduced" rate of $50/hr to patrol our schools (according to Mayor
Stanton).<br>
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Also, one employer I know pays H1B Visa workers $66K (that's what
the worker's sponsor gets); now take off 30% for overhead, 30% for
new Federal Tax withholding on non-resident aliens (obama never
said he would not raise taxes on non-citizens), and that $66K just
turned into $32K/year, or $16/hr. With companies importing
166,000 new H1B workers every year, all of whom have Bachelors
Degrees, many of them Master's Degrees, and they are willing to
work for under $20/hr, where do you think your pay is going? "Up"
is not what comes to my mind :)<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Cheers!
George Toft
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On 5/3/2013 9:27 AM, keith smith wrote:<br>
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I happened upon this article. It says "According to
figures from the Department of Labor, this job fetches a
median salary that's just under six figures at $99,000.
Those in the bottom 10 percent make about $62,800, and the
top 10 percent is sitting pretty at $148,850."<br>
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Seems a little high. <br>
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