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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Computer programmer. Mid-30s. $170K.[/quote]

Just as a programmer? That seems quite high for that kind of role, no? Are you dumbing your title down a bit?[/quote]

No. But some companies realize that a really good programmer is easily 10x more productive than an average programmer. It's a no brainer. They're just hard to find. Of course, it's a different calculus if you're just billing bodies to the government.[/quote]

We hire computer programmers at this rate but I would say they are more computer architects who can design as well as program.

We have techs, who do predefined work. We have engineers, 120k range that do work that is not predefined and have to have high level skills. We have architects that plan out for 5 year, design, understand the industry, the clients needs and creates the design. They will be highly involved at the begining and middle of a project then hand off to engineers and technicians in the end.[/quote]

Much better explained than I did earlier on (the sysadmin). I am probably more engineer than technician, although that line seems to be differently defined for different shops.

To me an "operator/technician" is someone that just does predefined steps every day/night and has little capability of deviation from the steps (unless he/she has seen that happen before). An "engineer/administrator" is someone capable of/required to have independent action/thought -- for example, the server is down, what now -- and possibly be able to make changes -- "Well the database does not come up cleanly post-reboot, let me change the startup scripts and the such" or "Let me build a small VM to monitor the other systems and alert everyone if something is going wrong."

Architects to me would be someone who can take a client's needs/limitation and work out a solution for a large-scale project, not just a small solution. [/quote]

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