Posted on 11/23/2017 6:47:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As college students and recent grads head home for the holidays, first on their minds are friends and family. But the end-of-year downtime is also a good opportunity for career reflection. And while salary should never be the only factor in a career decision, it often ranks high in our consideration set.
Careers site Comparably released a list of six entry-level jobs that pay more than $90,000. Entry-level was defined as workers with up to three years’ experience. To create the ranking, Comparably analyzed more than 19,000 anonymous salary reports submitted between March 2016 and October 2017 by employees of U.S. tech companies. Job titles needed a minimum of 600 salary reports to be eligible for the list.
For the top five entry-level tech jobs that pay more than $90,000, open the gallery below. For the full list, see the end of this article....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Spoiler alert:
Full List: Six Entry-Level Tech Jobs That Pay More Than $90K
Salaries below represent median pay.
Data scientist, $110,850
Product manager, $105,000
Mobile developer, $98,000
Developer, $96,000
Sales engineer, $93,000
DevOps engineer, $90,000
I’m shocked that either Women’s studies or Black studies isn’t in the group. You would think with all the attention the media pays to those issues they would be at the top of the list (Yes, SARC)
Such a poorly designed website, I couldn’t make it past the second slide in under several minutes (popover, tv ads, etc). And beyond that I was not seeing a description of the positions.
Okay, Data Scientist (median $110,000).
What are the rest?
No wonder there are so many willing to spread the global warming/climate change lies...it pays nicely!
Data scientist and product manager are not entry level jobs. As for the others...maybe you’ll get a salary like that if you are are a top computer science graduate from Stanford going straight to work at Google. If you are from Enormous State University, you’ll probably start out maintaining 30-year-old COBOL programs at Giant Boring Insurance Company for $45,000/year, just like the rest of us had to. :)
Data scientist? Fancy name for someone who crunches data then reads it like chicken entrails. It all depends on the biases of the person interpreting it.
Hmmmm...I see whiny snowfake didn’t make the list....
Not sure what the base pay is, but we are desperately short of Diesel Mechanics and Welders. Especially Welders who know how to weld stainless steel.
Average age of Diesel Mechanics are 60+
In the next 5 years we will not have enough mechanics to answer truck breakdowns on the Interstates.
Agree. In my experience sales engineer and product manager are anything but entry level. Both are generally preceded by experience in applications or design engineering.
Hey I like COBOL. In its’ day COBOL was hot.
Perhaps that is because diesel mechanics have had such crappy working conditions and lack of job security. Freight lines screwed over guys in that job in the 80s and 90s as I recall from buddies I knew that had that job.
A product manager who’s not yet held any other tech job? I’m sure that’ll do well for the company. —NOT!
Agreed, I guess the “journalist” writing the article has no business or math training.
If you think that is how a significant percentage of data scientists make money then you don’t understand data science. This is a field that a STEM person should do - it is the new engineering.
A fellow ESU graduate. Love it!
Yes...but in the field of trading their success or failure is easily quantified...often with 7 digit incomes.
I have a friend that was a diesel mechanic and I was a gas mechanic for 20+ years.. the money is gone from both jobs. He went on to be a warranty claim adjuster at a engine re-manufacturer and I still wrench but on my own products. I am a used car guy now.
when I started wrenching it was a 60/40 split on labor and 5% of parts.. Now, you are lucky if they offer you high teens on flat rate. The best paychecks I ever got were at that first shop, as I got more experienced and more tools pay just kept going down..
There is a reason no one is entering these fields.. They no longer pay to enter. Who is going to drop 50-100K on tools for 16 dollars an hour?
“desperately short of Diesel Mechanics and Welders”
and
“screwed over guys in that job in the 80s and 90s”
Yep I remember that too.
Promised the moon Treated like crap, shiitey working conditions, ZERO security. Constantly moving on after two years.
Great for a young guy to start his own thing and put the existing folks out of business.
But don’t ever work for someone else.
I ran a federally-funded homeless veteran program about 30 years ago. One of the things we did do was buy them tools if they had a trade. Spent quite a bit of money that way.
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