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Am I wrong to think that programmers are overpaid?

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Question added by Hany Sewilam Abdel Hamid , Director of Sales and Marketing , Creative Sense
Date Posted: 2016/06/06
Fares Ayyad
by Fares Ayyad , Dynamics 365 CRM consultant , Dynamics Innovations

programmers are paid based on their skills and knowledge they gaind and represnt, we all know that in IT especially in programming it's hard to gain skills and knowledge so who has a huge skills should be paid more.

1. The software industry is cyclical, you are often employed and paid well for several years and then unemployed or underemployed for another several years when the market is down. You need to consider the *average* pay across all years, not the pay for the high years only — you’ll find the average pay is, well, quite average compared to many other professions.

2. In the US, a majority of the highly paid programmer positions are in SF+Bay Area, where the cost of living is sky-high, so nearly every professional’s comp is high compared to other regions. Comparing a SF+Bay Area salary to any median salary in the US is silly. If these positions were out in, say, Ohio, many programmers especially those with families would happily take half the salary. This is why you hear of two young programmers stuffing two futons into a studio apartment — things just aren't affordable and the seemingly-high salary barely gets you anything.

Joel Dagupan
by Joel Dagupan , Material Controller (Warehouse Assistant) , Ju-Young Electronics Philippines

Yes you are! the role of a programmer is to create a system that makes an easy workflow of a company that depends on classic ways! programmer should paid right and more than that!

Shahbaz Khan
by Shahbaz Khan , Full Stack Web Developer , Zepto Systems

Yes ofcourse you are wrong, being a prgrammer we have to struggle in our social life to learn and acquire newly updates in programing. Programmer is not a programmer in office only he thinks about solutions in mind even while sleeping. If someone is losing his most of energy, social life in working, thinking new way of performance and evaluation, then how could you say that sir?You can not say it overpaid it is right of a programmer. Have you seen any manager to keep studying even after getting job programmer do study regulary.

Imran Muhammad
by Imran Muhammad , IT Officer , Muhammad College of Medicine

Yes, If your good progrmer then you don't think about this, you try and do more and get more expernince becuse the world going to advance and its must the you and all change their skill and get more expernice.

Yes, certainly because programmers go into complex details and analyze them to provide you with a simple and easy system with high efficiency

Fatima  Sattar
by Fatima Sattar , HR Manager , BBC Media Action

Programmers are paid according to their expeirences and skill they gained on their past career. We are aware of the gaining knowledge and skills and to reproduce and manage in creative ways for better achievement of the project goals and the system itself. So, the skill-sets of the candidates and their competency in terms of executing such skill sets. Looking for a career as developer, one of the most sought after career in the product based industry. Therefore, they are not overpaid. 

Arshal Peter
by Arshal Peter , Sales and Marketing Professional , St. Xaviers

I can't go as far as to say that you are absolutely wrong but I will say that you couldn't be less correct. You're a limit approaching wrong from the right side of infinity at a speed which increases infinitely

Muhammad Dilshad
by Muhammad Dilshad , Store Executive officer , Sapphire Dairies pvt (LTD)

A person can be overpaid. A couple of people can be overpaid. An entire population of workers cannot, by definition be overpaid. As a group, we are neither over- or underpaid; we are paid the market price according to the demand for our services (and the supply of people capable of providing that service

vignesh sivakumar
by vignesh sivakumar , Technical Support Engineer , Wipro technologies

No because they are overpaid . i think software is the best job but difficulty is to develop a program on different concepts. but we study hard we will definitely got job in software domain. we know all questions to answer. that is the matter.

If you have the skills, you get paid enough.

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