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In software? Yes - no matter which part of the country. Maybe a few hold outs in the 90k.

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The jr's in my company are making $60-$70k.

Anyway, the government actually compiles this information

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

>The median annual wage for software developers was $133,080 in May 2024. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $79,850, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $211,450.

Yep, those numbers agree with my comment. Note that also includes QA in those numbers and roles which are not software engineer.

That's laughable.

Anyway I'm not American, Indian, or European. I guess I don't exist!

You’re telling me you don’t live in America. But also you know better about salaries and standards of living in America.

I don't think one has to live in a country to be able to look up and read statistics, or talk to people who work there, or read job postings from there, or have worked for companies in that country, or...

Anyway I'm not really sure why you're so insistent on this focus of America. HN (and the Internet in general) is a pretty diverse crowd... which was sort of my point