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.

$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).

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 :)

Cheers!

George Toft

On 5/3/2013 9:27 AM, keith smith wrote:
>
> 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."
>
> Seems a little high.
>
> http://education.yahoo.net/articles/six_high-paying_careers.htm?svkid=1O0V0&usid=05e1ed9e-6dfc-4855-8d91-339a0c9b2acf
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