> Today is the golden age? Not to people who’ve been doing this for a few years.
Things seem to have turned on a dime. Around the subprime mortgage crisis (Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September 2008) things were looking dire. However around now (December 2011) things are looking much better. Experienced devs in New York / Seattle / Silicon Valley / Los Angeles are making more than you think. I've even heard that devs fresh out of school in Boston can make $140K.
Things seem to have turned on a dime. Around the subprime mortgage crisis (Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September 2008) things were looking dire. However around now (December 2011) things are looking much better. Experienced devs in New York / Seattle / Silicon Valley / Los Angeles are making more than you think. I've even heard that devs fresh out of school in Boston can make $140K.