stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) (05/27/89)
Thanks for the replies below is the info that I received. Barry Brown wrote : Jim Seymour said the folowing in his column in MacUser (April, 1989): "Psst: Wanna get rich? Become a Mac programmer. Actually, I've got that in the wrong tense. Because to make a potful of dough as a hired-gun Mac programmer, you should have become a Mac programmer a couple of years ago. Because right now the action in the market is for "experienced" Mac programmers, who are difficult to find and astonishingly expensive. I've spent a lot of time lately talking with software developers who tell me they'll pay almost anything to get a really solid Mac programmer in their shops. Where once making it big as a programmer meant working in a garret writing some magical code, then selling or licensing that program to a Big-Time Software Publishing Firm -- or starting your own company, making the program into a modest hit, then selling the whole company to aforesaid BTSPF -- today the salaries being paid to skilled Mac programmers are so high they look like professional baseball salaries. Good Mac programmers can easily earn $60,000 to $75,000. Better ones hit $90,000. And a lot of very good Mac programmers are earning well over $100,000 a year as employees of the big software shops. "Reality has set in at those places and they've discovered that, easy as the Mac is to use, it's damned hard to write sophisticated programs for. Unlocking all the toolboxes and unearthing all the skeletons take a long time. And there's no easy conversion process from DOS or Cobol or UNIX or you-name-it to the Mac world: It ain't like nothin' else. So those sky-high salaries are likely to continue." I just hope your request for a raise won't put your employer out of business. :-) ----------------------- Frank Malczewski wrote: Not being a Mac programmer, I will say that compared to an article that I just read (maybe in MacWeek), I am definitely underpaid. Nevertheless, the article (let me repeat that I'm not sure where I saw it), was saying that Mac programmers were quite in demand: 60K-ish to 75K-ish as I recall; some even as high as 90K-ish. I will assume that these are experienced individuals, and that these salaries apply to companies that are pretty desperate. Perhaps I SHOULD dive into the toolbox after all! (I'm a VAX weenie...) ______________________ Greg Herlihy wrote: I have read that a competent mac programmer can command a salary in the $85,000 range. --------------------- Douglas Phillips wrote: 35k-75k depending on how good you are, by the way we are hiring. From: softa@vax.SPD.3Com.COM (Douglas Phillips) For The people who requested me to mail them info I'm sorry if it didn't get to you. my mailer bounced them back to me and i don't know this mail thing to well. -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora SRI International stores@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________