Also, they’re mostly working in the financial district in SF, based on their comments.

In NYC, it’s not uncommon for code monkeys to make over $200k. But you earn every penny, and it’s not uncommmon for most people to work there for less than 2 years… For an SF trader, salaries north of that are pretty common, even without the bonuses.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2008/04/another_admittedly_incomplete_update_for_a_few_featured.html#comments

One guy, tipster, indirectly mentions he earns $156k

Another guy, enonymous announces he makes well over $156k.

then on top of that, a guy named “Ex-SFer” mentions he makes more than $300k!

I know, I know, you seriously can’t believe anything you read on these blogs, but these guys seem pretty serious about their earnings.

I have first hand accounts from quite a few Stanford CS and some students from other schools (UCB, USF, Santa Clara, SJSU) who have graduated in the last 3 years.

Their reports are consistent with what MSG reports – that the normal starting salary with a BS in CS is about $50-60K. MS in CS pays about $5-10K more, usually because the candidates are better not because of the degree. And PhDs in CS start at $80-90K. Very, very few exceed these numbers – those are the exceptions, not the rule. My general impression is that the more qualified the person is, the more they have to interview to land a single offer – presumably because they are more specialized.

Tell me about it. I’ve just finished up my taxes and i’m going to pay dearly for some heavy stock-based capital gains I incurred this year.

So, i guess i’m paying for a couple M-16′s, fuel air bombs, and Haliburton-sponsored Subway/Burger King lunches for a couple of our boys over there.

No problem, but the least they could do is give me a consolation prize, like a Al Qaeda shrunken head or something.

Yeah, that’s probably for Stanford CS grads. In early 1999, I applied for several I/T jobs up here after college. The best paying job was with Sun, and believe it or not, IBM. The starting offer was 51k, which I got them to bump up to 56k since the job market was hot. There was a report about Google employees making 200k on Digg, but that has been debunked. Another cousin of mine works at Google, but on the marketing side. She graduated from Berkeley with a liberal arts degree, and I remember her telling me her starting salary at Google was only 45k. They get comps, but it’s not even worth the amount of work you have to do there. I also had to mentor a COOP/intern doing a CS masters at Stanford in 2000. She eventually took a job with IBM. I know IBM does NOT pay more than 70k starting for fresh out of college masters. My other friend has a master in CS from Cornell, one of the best CS schools, and used to work at IBM’s Global Services. He eventually left for NYC to work at a finance firm there. He told me he got a small raise and is making mid 80′s out there. I’ve been in this industry for nearly 10 years. Believe me, the dichotomy in salaries and education is huge, and often doesn’t make sense. Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than smart, like in my case.

Anyways, I don’t doubt there are starter salaries out here for elite students in the 80k’s, but I doubt starter salaries for engineers out here go around 125k like mentioned earlier. There are probably exceptions to the rule, but for the normal Joe schmoe I/T guy, look to start around 50-60′s.

http://money.cnn.com/video/ft/#/video/fortune/2008/04/11/fortune.lashinsky.silverlake.fortune

That can only be positive for the local housing market.

Are you talking about the guy with no qualification who does not understand that Burbed made RBA map to make joke?