Quote:It depends on what kind of development you do and your job title/responsibilities but like anything else, demand tends to drive compensation.  Salary.com has information about the industry in general, you can browse different kinds of specialities and see some free salary survey data.  If you're taking courses or self-learning, one piece of advice I'd give is to not concentrate on just learning a language or two but spend time studying software architecture and methodologies.  Good luck!

 

I couldn't agree more with the bolded text. When I first started in IT we were starting batch jobs with card decks. 20 years later we were converting a system written mainly in COBOL running on mainframes to SQL running on network servers. If none of that makes sense it's because that was 10 years ago, and everything we worked with then is likely nearly obsolete. What didn't change was the system design process and methods. Everything else is tools used to achieve the desired results. You'll never stop going to classes.

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