What kind of salaries do the best and the worst computer programmers make, and what kind of stuff would u need

Question

to be capable of doing in order to be a professional programmer

Answer 1

Salary depends on where you work and years of experience. Try going to Salary.com to get more specific info.

These days it's more important to have a good understanding of the practical business application than to know how to write programs. That means that accounting classes will help you more than programming classes. The vast majority of programming is for accounting applications. If accounting doesn't interest you it will be harder for you to find work at a good rate.

You can teach just about anyone how to program. It's much harder for them to learn the business.

A Major in Business and minor in Computer Science will help you get the highest salary.

Also remember that the US continues to outsource information technology jobs. Salaries have gone down here.

Good luck!

Answer 2

You won't get a meaningful answer here and that's no reflection on the quality of the answers they've given. As they've said, there are so many factors involved that the market changes as much as share prices. You could pick a course now based on your current info, take the time to complete the course and find at the end that the market is flooded with people exactly like yourself who made exactly the same decision.

You need to keep your eye on the ball; for example, COBOL programmers could name their own price when people rushed around looking for solutions to the Y2K bug, now they might go for years without finding work.

Check out online recruitment sites for current stats. I've included the link to Monster's page below, and other sites will have a similar feature.

Answer 3

Depends on where you live in the world.

In the US, in the Boston or Silicon Valley area an experienced programmer pulls in over $100K.

Which is part of the reason programming jobs are moving off-shore. A programmer in India/China/Vietnam a programmer is pulling in under $30K.

In the US, you need at minimum a bachelors degree in computer science to even get an interview.

Else, start your own company, but good luck with that.

Answer 4

worst: as low at 25000/ year
best: as much as 150,000/year
what you need to know:
depends what your programing
computers:java, C++
Web pages: java, HTML, javascript, PEARL, jscript