在美國IT行業你掙多少?

本文作為拋磚引玉, 拿自己作個例子, 也想聽聽大家的情況。

1995年美國IT碩士畢業, 一直在東北部(New England Area)工作, 現為一家中小
型軟體公司(非Start-up)做主管(Director)。

收入如下：
基本工資： $111,000/年
獎金：$10,000 - 15,000/年
福利：醫療保險基本免費。$3,500/年公司401(K) match。三周假期。
股票：未上市期權股，不值多少。

我們公司新大學畢業生大約$60,000/年, 中級技術人員大約$70,000 - $80,000/年, 高級技術人員大約$90,000 - $105,000/年. 老闆掙多少, 本人不知道。

地區當然有關係. 加州矽谷平均應最高. 本人以為加州LA , San Diego, Boston, NY/NJ地區差不多為次. 其他地區低一些。www.salary.com 是一個不錯的薪資網站.

本文作為拋磚引玉, 拿自己作個例子, 也想聽聽大家的情況

I was talking about software development company/organization. Senior software engineer/developer and Senior QA engineer are indeed paid differently. They are not that far off though in my expereince. Developer may make 5% more than a QA or support engineer on average. In some cases it could be 10%. There are certain QA engineers (QA automation engineers) make as much as if not more than developers.

不知現在北美IT人的就業情況如何?據說很多項目都OUTSOURCE到印度、俄羅斯和中國等地了。

OUTSOURCE到印度很多，但是，那些大多是低層的我們所謂白領工人的工作，也就是那些純粹的程序員。

A few more points. I manage the QA department (Director of QA). I would say the engineering director is probably making $5K - $9K more per year. A "VP Engineering" is in the range of $120K-$140K/year.

If one is a senior-level developer (say with ten-year experience) and making more than $110K/year, s/he is certainly in the high-end. Large companies tend to pay more but not necessarily always true.

In terms of outsourcing, I would say the experience has been largely mixed. I do hear occasionally companies pulling back operations previously outsourced to India (by far the biggest destination of outsourcing). But I would say the trend is very clear - meaning more and more IT jobs will go oversea with time.

For "現在北美IT人的就業情況", 2002 by far was the darkest age (right after internet boom in late 90s and early 2K). Things have been pretty good in the past few years in my opinion. On the other hand, one should not expect the IT hiring frenzy of 1999-2000 in the future anymore. That was once-a-life-time experience and really surreal C now that I look back and reflect on it.

I would say that's certainly in the ballpark. Development in general make a little more but there are more responsibilities as well. Both QA and tech support are down-stream in terms of the whole software life cycle. I prefer QA because we have more flexibility (and you can certainly accuse me biased)

多謝大家的答覆。對了，還想問一下，大家講的那些是稅前收入，還是稅後收入?如果是稅前，那麼實際到手的佔總數的百分比大約多少？

看來你是不太了解這邊的情況, 都是稅前收入.

實際到手的佔總數的百分比真是很難講. 大概 65%(單身) - 85%(一人養四口)不等...

IT行業能掙！ Bachelor就拿這麽多。是不好招到人嗎？還是太難學？ Biotech博士起薪7， 8 萬都不好找，拔尖又要對口。醫生像家庭醫生，拚命多年才拿這麽多而已。

IT行業能掙！ Bachelor就拿這麽多。是不好招到人嗎？還是太難學？ Biotech博士起薪7， 8 萬都不好找，拔尖又要對口。醫生像家庭醫生，拚命多年才拿這麽多而已。家庭醫生工作滿辛苦的。

IT錢比較容易賺.

北美工資還是高啊，我在歐洲就差多了。

簡單的老狐狸, 你要是相信前面幾個人的薪金代表美國IT大多數或平均水平, 你就太天真了.

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矽谷不斷變化的就業格局也有不利的一面。工資再度爬升，使得在這個本已十分昂貴的地區開展業務的成本更加高漲。根據Joint Venture Silicon Valley的資料，2005年矽谷的平均年薪達到了69,455美元，較2004年增長了2.7%，但仍低於該地區2000年的高點8萬多美元。
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這是發在上的文章 (http://news..com/BBSView.php?SubID=news&MsgID=204528). "矽谷, 工資再度爬升, 十分昂貴...", 平均年薪$69K才是DBA老兄的零頭! Midwest (美國中西部地區)平均比矽谷至少低15%-20%. 前面一美國中西部 "senior-level developer" 老兄稱至少掙11萬多. 這些都是偏高的.

話說回來，低的可能也不願意在這兒發言了.

是啊，美國是高。比一下同行業的公司，甚至是美國的公司，在東京就低多了。不過，實際到手的佔80%左右還行，要來個65%多，那太慘了，一下子就降下來了。

不過，看「富爸爸」等美國的書，說到手只佔約50%，看來實際情況好多了。

新情況（當真）：
公司正在與一大公司(世界上第二富人控股公司下的公司)洽談被購事宜。如事成，原以為不值幾個錢的未上市期權股（stock option）看來也值些錢了. 我們公司雖不大，單幹我覺得其實挺不錯。

巴菲特?可是俺的偶像啊!