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> there are only 132,740 computer programmers across the entire US

Source? That feels extremely low, maybe even by an order of magnitude.

Ah, yeah, I was just going off a simple Google. Probably ended up on the wrong BLS page. I agree it does seem low, a search for "Software Developer" turns up on this BLS page with much higher stats—1.5M developers.

Yeah, that's either out of date or only counts people that report their title as "Computer Programmer" rather than "Software Engineer" or one of the myriad of other ways to describe people who develop/maintain software.

The recent estimates are closer to 4.4 million software engineers in the U.S. (~2.75% of the working population)

> The recent estimates are closer to 4.4 million software engineers in the U.S. (~2.75% of the working population)

Heh, we are probably more than the secretaries we replaced.

I honestly believe most companies are worse off using computers at all. At some size, you'd probably want some computer system for pay slips. But I am not too sure about that ...

> The recent estimates are closer to 4.4 million software engineers in the U.S. (~2.75% of the working population)

source? I found a better BLS page that grouped all types of software professionals together but it still only came out to about 1.5M

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