I am an engineering soon-to-be grad with a job offer at a software company. The BLS has figures for developers in aggregate, not broken down by experience. What are you all seeing for new grad developers this year / last year? Thanks.
Go to your school career center or survey, salary depends on location. For example, from my UCSD the students take took job in Silicon Valley have much higher salary report than students that took jobs locally. I can guess by just looking at the number reported.
Had a brother and friend who recently graduated and went into software engineering and cloud computing repectively. Both in Silicon Valley, around 70k/year starting.
For context: the offer I received is much higher than expected and I’m trying to figure out why. Not in SV or a very high COL area.
Avg for CS majors at my school is less but still higher than other majors. Maybe the distribution is bimodal?
You complain about higher salary? Lol
But seriously the job is what matters not starting salary. What region?
Be sure to consider total compensation value to you, including benefits, paid time off, bonuses or incentives (which may be cash or stock based), rather than just base pay level. Also note whether it is regular full time job, or a contracting type situation with potentially variable hours and pay (and additional taxes if reported on 1099 instead of W-2).
Higher pay may also be needed for the employer to attract people to a less desired (by job seekers) area.
or to a higher risk start up type of company…
I’ve never had much faith in salary surveys. There’s a huge amount of variance around the mean when it comes to what companies in an area pay employees, and it seems mostly to do with how well a particular company is doing. For similar jobs, the pay at very profitable or well-funded companies is usually much better than the pay at average or struggling companies.
One company could be offering a new employee $80K, while the company across the street would be offering $60K for the same job.
Go look on glassdoor.com