Or you can look at actual data:
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151031.htm
Average salary for a software engineer is $90k, for California $103k (this excludes "programmers" who just implement fully spec'd code).
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151031.htm
Average salary for a software engineer is $90k, for California $103k (this excludes "programmers" who just implement fully spec'd code).
Fully spec'd code? I hope the PMs are getting a raise, as I've yet to see such a thing!
edit maybe if you implemented to spec...
If the spec is really complete then why don't they just compile and run that? Put another way: Is there such a thing anymore as a programmer who just implements fully specced code?