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@HEADLINE = Software Salaries: How do you stack up?
@BYLINE = by Joe Smith
How much your software professionals are paid is a function of many
variables, and a subject of considerable interest to your organization.
@SUBHEAD = Software salary pay scales
The dynamic growth of the software industry over the last decade has
increased the demand for experienced, qualified programmers, and has
led to a steady spiraling of salaries.
What causes managers to pay one programmer more than another? Does
the type of organization, its size, or location make a difference?
What career path or programming specialty leads to the most remuneration?
To answer these questions, Acme Publications recently conducted its
third annual compensation survey for software pro<->fessionals. This
newsletter article presents the results of this study and explores
what the findings may mean to you.
Acme asked Joe Smith, a compensation consulting specialist for the
software industry, to design and conduct the survey. Twenty-four positions,
representing four programmer job families plus management, were included.
Data was collected for base pay, bonus and incentive payments, and
whether nor not incumbents received stock options or other forms of
equity.
Questionnaires were sent to the data processing heads of 2,400 organizations
throughout the United States.
@HEADLINE = CD-ROM Breaks New Ground
Compact Disk Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) is a rap<->idly emerging new
technology for the retrieval of vast amounts of information from an
optical disk. This new peripheral device allows a totally new level
of func<->tionality in the use of micro<->computers.
Physically, the CD-ROM device has a laser disk drive (or <169>player<170>)
the same size as a traditional 5 1/4" drive. The removable disk is
4 3/4", and has a capacity of 550M bytes (equivalent to 1500 360K
floppy disks).
@SUBHEAD = Theory of Operation
Information stored on a CD-ROM can be loaded into memory (RAM), displayed
and printed, as with other media. While that data in RAM may be altered
and stored to a conventional magnetic disk, the original information
on the CD-ROM is unalterable, always ensuring the original copy is
intact, making archiving easy.
The storage capacity, low cost, and read only feature of CD-ROM bring
an enormous new capability to microcomputer users <197> that is, information
retrieval of very large reference publications. How people receive
and use information in the immediate and long term future will be
dra<->matically changed by CD-ROM.
In addition to the huge ca<->pacity of raw information storage, specialized
software for the search of that information is currently being intro<->duced.
This software allows searching the information in areas, methods and
speeds not previously possible.
Today, it is possible to electronically publish ref<->er<->ence material
more economically than to print the same material in book form. That
cost benefit, coupled with search and retrieval software, results
in an astonishing price to performance ratio.