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Who is this "we"? When I graduated with a degree in bioinformatics, the offers I got were ridiculous, the best one was $54K near NYC. And I was already a published scientist with years of programming experience at the time. At the same time salaries for web dev were great, so I stayed in web dev.

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Yeah, that and the incentives are not there for programmers. They are often treated as the support, not given proper training and managed by people who has no idea how to develop software. This is slowly changing but is still bad.

"We" - the scientific community. Coming from the academia, the need is certainly stronger there though.

I graduated ~7 years ago and was also a published author. at the time. The salaries I was offered for bioinformatics positions were lower than salaries from companies from sectors like ad-tech or security, but not by a lot.

For me , salary is not the most important factor in the decision and I rather work on interesting and important problems than earning 20% more. (although 54k is ridiculous for a published scientist).

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