With high job demand and high paying salaries, programming is one of the most attractive careers to explore these days. Within the field, though, there's a good variation between pay. Compass took data from multiple sources over the last year—a survey of startup executivies and software engineers, Elance-oDesk and Toptal freelancer portals, and public data from Glassdoor, Angellist, and Payscale—to compare how software engineers and developers get paid (US companies only).
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