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Jay Mackro wrote:
> I suspect that VB is so simple that hiring companies can
> readily find people (and pay them dirt). C++ is sufficiently
> obtuse (someone advised me to budget a year to learn it
> thoroughly - probably true), that jobs are more likely to pay
> enough to support my trading habit.
A recent survey published in the March 1998 issue of "Visual Basic
Programmer's Journal" found the following:
Average Average Extra
Language Salary Bonuses, etc.
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Visual Basic $62,300 $ 7,800
SQL 64,700 11,000
HTML 66,400 8,400
C++ 71,700 9,200
Cobol 63,200 13,000
Java 81,200 12,900
Hourly wages for Visual Basic programmers ranged from $30 to more than $250,
with the most common being $74 per hour.
-Bob Brickey
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