It depends PS, right out of college most software engineers make around 50k (So far as I know). At about 8-10 years its 80-110. You can break that 120k level but you need a niche. The only way to make good money anymore is to own your own company and be successfull. Its the second part that gets most of us in trouble.
I only posted my comment because it seems too many people here are willing to throw around the 6-figure income in a most unseemly fashion. It does not matter what any one of us earns; what matters is what the median person earns and can afford. Statistics aren’t built off the few thousand engineers who have access to this website at work all day(me). Nor are they built off the illegal immigrants washing lettuce at your favorite tacqueria(lots of them). They are built by the massive interactions of the millions of people in this city (2 or so million to my knowledge) blindly going about their ways.
I’d be alot happier if this blog were frequented by a fuller cross section of society but you gotta take what you can get.
One last item, yes if you include the comma, 50,000 is indeed six digits. I am glad we got that fleshed out, I was going to loose sleep over it.
