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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by xigoi on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:47PM (#31829973)
What proportion of people are making $1 per minute?
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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by tedunangst on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:03PM (#31830114)
$1 per minute is approximately $120k annual salary, so... almost anybody doing software development in the US?
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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by price on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:55PM (#31839465)
That's not true. The median annual pay for a software engineer in the US is a bit under $100k. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes good data on this.) That means most people doing software development in the US are making under $100k.

Almost anybody doing software development at a well-funded tech company is going to be making over $120k/yr, yes. But it turns out there are lots of other kinds of programming jobs, too.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by xigoi on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:57AM (#31833187)
And the USA is what, 4% of the world population?
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