The 7 Steps to Getting A $100K+ IT Job in 3 Years (IT Career Secrets)

Typical career advice is to ask your boss to send you to classes and workshops to improve your skills. Pursue training yourself, on your own time. If you see a problem, fix it. If you see something that needs doing, do it. Put together a how-to guide for new hires, document your processes and figure out where you can streamline them, or do whatever else you can think of to make a difference. Bosses appreciate vision more than anything. Person-to-person interactions are almost always more effective than department-to-department exchanges.

I know someone who can get that done for us right away. Your composure and ability to think clearly during a crisis demonstrates leadership potential, and leaders get promoted. The people who achieve the most are those who add the most value. Business is, after all, about making a profit. Travis Bradberry is the coauthor of Emotional Intelligence 2. Ladders offers the best professional advice every step of the job search process. What can we help you with? With that said, my highest paid friends are typically the most dissatisfied with their jobs - something to consider.

Be careful about chasing a dollar amount. That sounds like you're talking about entry-level, which can't be right regardless of where you live. I found one estimate as high as 90k. In non-coastal areas even big cities in the Midwest, Texas, etc. I suppose those are the exception though. By "entry-level," I mean a first job for an individual. Do those companies often employee programmers with no previous job experience? Microsoft and Google are likely the biggest recruiters for cs students.

College recruiting is pretty important for Facebook, Google and Microsoft at least. At any rate, those are "lowest-level" SDE jobs available at such companies. Career baseline, not entry-level. Making k these days with years of experience is not all that unusual. Most companies will adjust based on the cost of living. So k in NY might be on the entry level but in Kansas it is a top salary.

Baseline and "not all that unusual" are very different things. You may be thinking of wages accepted by H1B holders who have just arrived and will take anything they can get. Or people who just don't know better. I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned more: I'm married to a dentist but I know plenty of hacker types married to professionals doctors, lawyers, etc.

Your also missing something though. I would much rather work on San Fran for a few years, make a ton for my k then move some where cheap and rural in my 30s. San Fran people also have more cash for trips compared to Antonio.

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Overall, The higher salary is better in the long term. I'm doing this now, but the higher tax bracket not to mention the California taxes in general make it not nearly as nice an option as it could be. Alternate between billing really high to fix really really screwed up projects and billing a bit lower but taking interesting projects that you can use to update your skillset. I've made kish a year contracting this way in the non-major, low cost-of-living cities.

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Plus these contracts typically last up to 5 years so you have better stability than contracts of 6 months. This is just one way, but its an easy way. I've been doing this since throughout the midwest and southern states. How do you find these contracts? Especially, before you broke into the industry and created a large network of contacts? I really never had a large network of contacts. I just used DICE and the like. My technique is just do as many interviews as possible when it's time. If I wasn't so lazy I would market myself better. I have a bunch of other rules but they are for when you are already on site.

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I can post those too if you want to know. Kind of tangential, but here's a list of people on the so-called "Sunshine List" - public employees making over K in Ontario Canada. By law, they must disclose their salaries to the public. There's lots of them. And they're not all super-qualified engineers or hackers. We're talking transit employees, teachers, principals etc. Not to demean those professions, but not typically the professions that come to mind in the US when people talk about K salaried positions. Have some clue about programming. Work for a company with money.

Move to Australia and become a tiler. Move to Australia 2. Take up one of many trades tiling, concreting, wiring, plumbing 3. Respond to emails quickly 4. Show up when you say you will, quote when you say you will From my experience dealing with trades working on my house, I am confident that any tradie who is able to do these basic things would have work on tap and expand with lackeys quickly.

That'll make you a millionare! Or a chef at a mine. They fly you to the site for a couple of weeks, then fly you back out for a week off. ShardPhoenix on Feb 25, Only while the housing bubble lasts It's not a bubble when Sydney rents are the second most expensive in the world because of a lack of supply. It's true that prices could stagnate or even drop somewhat if unemployment started to rise. But that's a very different situation to a true housing bubble like in the US or Ireland that was driven by cheap credit and easy loans.

As for actually finding those jobs? They're the ones who are most likely to be in the know about opportunities. AJ on Feb 25, In the US not if your paying taxes: If your trying to be modest but not live someone in welfare it become instantly evident of how much you need to make. And I recently reread a PG article where he says he only had a gf two months in the three years he was working on Viaweb. Good to keep in mind, but I read it, and then promptly forgot. How much is k a year in the US? I thought it wasn't so much for good programmers, at least in SV.

Is a k programmer something unheard of in the US? It really depends on where you live.

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Compared to Raleigh, NC southeast U. I believe that k a year, even in the most expensive and well-paying cities e. When you get to 5 years experience, then I'm guessing k is much more common. That said, the mean yearly income for a software engineer in the USA appears to be somewhere between 75k and 90k according to a couple of online sources I quickly found. Salary increases pretty quickly at the entry level because your opportunities multiply with just a little bit of experience. The things that have made me happier have all been free or fairly cheap.

Not that it always does; it depends on your dependencies, in both senses. With a wife, child and mortgage I would be pretty unhappy if my income dropped to 0. For the record, I'm an artist and make less than a year, for nearly a decade now. As you can imagine, I have very few expenses.

Here's an interesting comparison of Software Developer salaries, according to Indeed.

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I kept trying to find a city with a lower average than Kansas City, where I live, but of the ones I tried we still get paid the least on average. People are down voting you, but I don't know why. There has been much written about the explosion of 6 figure government jobs in the last decade or two. OstiaAntica on Feb 25, One-fifth of the federal govt earns six figures or more. Note that this percentage is of all workers, including part time workers. Part time workers are under represented in the federal government workforce compared to the broader workforce [1] http: The city runs its own utilities, etc.

Do you mean to ask what are the secrets to earning more money? Keep learning valuable skills, do good work, ask for more money or ask for ways to potentially earn it, e. There are a couple of comments in this vein already, but I still feel compelled to clamor against such an unreflective regurgitation of the word "success.

We might as well start whipping out the rulers and unzipping our pants right now. Get a valuable skill, some experience and carefully build your resume. It doesn't even have to be a skill in high demand, even a hard to find skill can be extremely valuable to an organization. Do you take a company car into account? Employer deductions into pension? Or is it just the base salary? Because all of this can make a big difference. If you're an engineer, all that's required to earn that much is show up on time and be good at your job.

The cold, hard truth is if you don't earn at least that much, you either suck at your job or suck at negotiating. Your bosses and many of your peers earn twice as much as that. IF you work in the corporate world. In fact, congratulations, if you're this guy, you probably win the game. It's quite typical of HN when this topic comes up for someone to be downvoted by people who make very little money when they come out with the cold, hard facts.

This place is full of millionaires and super-successful entrepreneurs who mostly stay quiet in threads like these. Wake up and smell the coffee. This appears to be true of the Americans I know but this level of salary is.. I know you weren't speaking for other countries, but salaries are a lot 'flatter' over here.

It's night and day from the US experience. This is part of the reason I work for myself. In the UK, it would be really hard work getting a similar position. Self employment wins for that here since I can just have American customers used to American prices anyway ;-. That's why it's not very common for young professionals to live alone in London. Most people live out in the suburbs and commute in or live with other people and split the costs.

Clearly people are managing on a lot less because that's what people are earning. The most common solution for the older family types is to have multiple earners in the home which, again, splits the costs down. I can't think of any British family I know around my age where both partners aren't working except for me and my wife..

Never thought I'd see living in Croydon discussed on HN. I currently live in Croydon, very close to the station, for commuting into London.

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I used to live in Warlingham so Croydon often comes to mind: But it's not an unreasonable salary for soho creatives or a random job in the 'city' with years experience. I used to live in Clapton about 6 years ago just off the 'murder mile' it was a bit like living in 'the wire', but we were younger and didn't care. The second bedroom didn't have any windows. But you pay in train fares and commute time, especially if your office isn't central.

You need two incomes for sure, but when you have young kids all of the second income goes on childcare as both earners need to be out of the house 11hrs per day. That's why we recently gave it up and moved to the country. Is that why you're in Lincolnshire? It's uncommon in much of America, as well, except in metro areas -- and not all of us want to live in a metro. It's not that uncommon, it's in what people look at as 'salary'. Once you count those, European 'salaries' come much closer to US equivalents discounted for regional differences etc, of course.

The 'US salary' is much more 'what it costs the employer' than the 'EU salary'. I can't speak for Europe as a whole but in the UK a "salary" refers to the amount of money earned pre-tax by the employee and not including any taxes paid by the employer. All job ads are written that way and salaries are discussed and negotiated in this way. Perhaps continental Europe is different in this regard, as you suggest, however.

Go and work for a Bank. Rariel on Feb 25, You must be out of touch with the state of the legal job market. Top firms have cut summer programs or significantly scaled them back which has a trickle down effect--the top candidates usually took jobs at top firms. It's really a sad state of affairs right now. Many people I know are unemployed lawyers. This post is a good example of a phenomenon I keep seeing when it comes to how people view incomes- People pay much more attention to their own circle and to those making more money than them, so they get a skewed outlook on what is 'normal' and 'average'.

That's why everyone in America thinks they are 'middle class', whether they make 30k or k. That's why you keep seeing this figure. Pedestrian engineers a couple years in earn this all over the valley Those all seem to be senior positions, and only in certain cities. But the original post was talking about the bare minimum as a professional , which should include various kinds of professionals, at different levels of seniority and various locations.

In the US, good software engineers or sysengineers get a "senior" title with years experience, and probably closer to the 2. So, it's a "senior" position in title only. My experience recruiting Senior Developers not a coder, take it for what its worth for top-3 eCommerce firms, top 10 Las Vegas Casino's and Casino game design firms which normally offer lower compensation and top financial firms. In higher cost of living area's the benefits and "perks" were always higher, but tended towards a lower work-life balance.

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