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"Average starting salary: $74,447."

So they are paying them less than they would a recent college grad by something like 25%? no wonder they love hiring people out of these things.

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I think you have a somewhat distorted view of the average starting salary of a college graduate:

http://www.naceweb.org/s11182015/starting-salary-class-2015....

Sure, but in the sentence right before that it talks about the companies hiring the graduates that are based in SF and NYC and these camps are put on in those cities so I'm assuming you don't go to these boot camps and then take a job in Kansas.

For what it's worth, when I started working in NYC in 2011 in a prominent company, I started at 65K, having graduated from a traditional college with a Computer Engineering degree.

Not saying it was a good salary, but not all college graduates start at the ludicrously high salary people keep seeing posted online.

2nd this. Grad degrees provide a substantial boost, but not everyone can afford the debt and opportunity costs associated with a masters. Sadly, most of those that can, are in a better financial situation (family) to begin with.

What do you mean? I learned from HN that $150K/year is the poverty line. Surely the average salary much be much higher.

I think this average takes into account salaries in other states as well, not just CA and NYC (where junior devs do make higher starting salaries). We've hired people fresh out of bootcamps at companies I've worked at in the past and in most cases, we offered them salaries pretty close to that of a recent grad.

After 3.75 years of work experience, most of them will almost certainly be making more than a recent college grad.

My first job in NYC was at a non-profit as a web dev with far more skills than what anyone could learn from a boot camp (I have a comp engr degree) and made substantially less than the posted average. I still a managed to live comfortably in Manhattan.

For people coming in who may be stuck in sub-$60K jobs, $10K to $15K in 10 weeks to be elevated to an a new income bracket doesn't seem unreasonable, when comparing it to the cost of going back to college.

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