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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by TheCoelacanth on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:47AM (#37162530)
Average wage isn't $75k. That's average household, which frequently has two wage earners.

For individual full-time workers, it's $57,200[1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by maccard on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:44AM (#37163427)
Ok replace 75k with 57k, the average swe is not making $275k
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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by throwaway60707 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:09PM (#37163881)
I didn't say average, I said it's not unusual. Obviously you need to be good to get to that level. But you can do it without any schools, just by sitting down at home and learning, and then replying to few LinkedIn messages.

In my experience, this would be the case for cca 20-25% of the people I work with. So yeah, definitely not average - but definitely not something you never see. Every team has few devs like that.

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