Salary for software engineering

[kev374]

Anyone know what is the current market salary for a Sr. Software Engineer (Java EE or .NET) with 10+ yrs experience in the Los Angeles/Orange County area?  The salary ranges I have seen are huge, some say $90k, others $120k.

I am thinking the median full time salary is around $110k/yr plus benefits and 10% bonus?  Is that a reasonable expectation?

If the full time salary is as above what is a reasonable asking rate for contract work (W2 contract and C2C) considering a 1 yr contract and no benefits of course.  Is $80/hr pushing it?

[Coronita]

For J222 and .NET I’d take it if you can get 110k in L.A. . Because there isn’t much demand for this now.

[kev374]

[quote=flu]For J222 and .NET I’d take it if you can get 110k in L.A. . Because there isn’t much demand for this now.[/quote]

and in your opinion what is the area of high demand now in terms of pay?

[Coronita]

[quote=kev374][quote=flu]For J222 and .NET I’d take it if you can get 110k in L.A. . Because there isn’t much demand for this now.[/quote]

and in your opinion what is the area of high demand now in terms of pay?[/quote]

L.A. markets suck for enginerds that don’t run their own businesses. Because the majority of work is I.T. work which non-tech companies that like to try to get the cheapest type of employee without understanding the concept of you get what you pay for. And I hated taking the time to explain that to them, but much rather watched folks go down in a heap of flame trying to do things with a $25/hr contractor. Iremember I had a gig at Symantec, years back when the economy was better and I they were paying FTE’s $85k in Santa Monica when everyone else was paying around $125k… Their selling point was “our stock was on fire”…Well, it sure was, burned right up to $50/share and right smacking down to $11/share with absolutely worthless stock options for folks that took the bait and signed up for $85k base salary…Not to mention most of the enginerds were “c” hackers and didn’t have experience with enterprise stuff at the time.

Also L.A. is probably not recovering as well as other parts of the area. (I hope you meant L.A. and not O.C. If you’re talking O.C., your selling yourself short imho)..

Aside from that demand J2EE and .NET isn’t quite what it use to be in general, and specifically tight in L.A.

I already mentioned where the bigger dollars are before. Android Mobile SW currently and soon to be Windows 8 possibly. The former probably won’t hit saturation for 1.5 to 2.5 years. At which time most of the folks were were doing enterprise have quit, and you can go back to doing enterprise when companies start spending again decently on enterprise R &D, because software innovation is always cyclic and bounces between innovating the frontend..hitting saturation, and the innovating the backend and hitting saturation (when the backend can no longer keep up with the frontend).

Kev, also, you should try applying to Intuit in S.D.

Senior SW engineers with years of experience are around $120k +-10k% stock options + RSU + almost guarantee 20% bonus yearly for just being average.

Staff SW engineers start higher…

That’s not that bad for S.D. for a pure techie with no management/architect responsibilities.

also if you want salary comps, sign up for glassdoor.com

[Wah-Wah]

agree with flu.
Between LA & OC, OC is your best bet.

[burghMan]

[quote=flu]I already mentioned where the bigger dollars are before. Android Mobile SW currently and soon to be Windows 8 possibly.[/quote]

What kind of apps are corporations developing that is driving the need for mobile developers? Are they mostly smaller companies trying to be the next Instagram, or are big corporations staffing projects for Android apps? Many mobile apps seem like they would be rather small projects, compared to something like desktop or enterprise software.

Thanks!

[an]

[quote=burghMan]What kind of apps are corporations developing that is driving the need for mobile developers? Are they mostly smaller companies trying to be the next Instagram, or are big corporations staffing projects for Android apps? Many mobile apps seem like they would be rather small projects, compared to something like desktop or enterprise software.

Thanks![/quote]
It really depend on which corporation. There are large corporations that have apps. Google, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Apple, Etrade, Bank of America, Citi, Chase, etc., just to name a few.

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