Computers programmers have a very technical and timely responsibility of making sure that they provide the technical functions that help companies and other businesses organizations use their computers to help deal with whatever tasks they need to accomplish. All programmers are coders who create programs through the writing of step by step codes that help a computer program process information in many different ways. You can find computer programmers working in many different businesses and industries, and they receive their instructions for specific projects from software engineers who create these projects on flow charts to help the programmer write out the kind of program that is needed to accommodate the vision of the project. The salary that a computer programmer earns is all based on their specific position and their specific level of education, but there are still many other factors that work in determining their salary.
Back in 2009, the United States Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics went and collected a survey and wage data from over 350,000 men and women working as certified computer programmers. It was determined that the average annual salary for working as a computer programmer is $75,000 meaning that on a monthly bases they are making more than $6,000 with an hourly pay of $40. It was also determined that the programmers in the bottom 10% were making an average of $40,000 a year while those in the top 10% were making over $110,000 a year.
The salary for computer programmers is different from industry to industry, but those programmers in computer system design are the ones who are the highest employed in the world. The average annual salary for the men and women working as computer system designers is $77,000. Computer programmers working in computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing firms are offering a salary as high as $100,000. Companies for brokerage, security companies and contract inter-mediation companies are over more than $90,000 to their employed programmers. Software publishing companies are paying programmers a salary as high as $86,000 a year.
Programmers also seem to be getting paid higher salaries based on the amount of experience that they have. Programmers who have less than a year of experience are earning between $35,000 to $50,000. Those programmers with 1 to 4 years of experience are averaging an annual salary of $40,000 to $53,000. Computer programmers with experience of 5 to 9 years are earning $44,000 to $65,000 and those with 10 to 19 years of experience are making as high as $80,000 a year. Those with 20+ years are making over $100,000 a year.
The next factor that determines the salary of a computer programmer is there location. Programmers who work in major cities in the United States such as New York City, Boston, Massachusetts and Los Angeles are getting paid salaries ranging from $70,000 to $85,000. Those working in Phoenix make as high as $65,000 a year, but programmers working in Washington and Massachusetts are really making huge salaries as high as $90,000 a year.
