How the Other Half Lives: Software Developer Salaries [Infographic]
Riviera Partners, a California-based recruiting service crunched some numbers related to software developers it helped place in Silicon Valley in 2012. The numbers are pretty stunning. A junior-level engineer working in PHP, the least lucrative of the major programming languages, earns $75,000. But just 14 percent of the people benefiting from the tech boom are women.
Riviera Partners, a California-based recruiting service crunched some numbers related to software developers it helped place in Silicon Valley in 2012. The numbers are pretty stunning. A junior-level engineer working in PHP, the least lucrative of the major programming languages, earns $75,000. Starting junior salaries run up to $116,000.
Many attribute the rise in tech companies in San Francisco proper, rather than the Peninsula towns that traditionally make up Silicon Valley, to the bump it gives companies in recruiting new talent.
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