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Discussion on: What software technologies will earn you the highest pay?

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Bradley Wells

I'm curious- C# and. NET devs, what are your thoughts about this data?

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Erik

remember, the post is localized to Seattle. I can tell you with certainty that C# and .NET are high paying skills in the energy industry.

I live in Houston where oil is the main industry and the Microsoft stack dominates the job market. my first dev job was writing C# and the salary was on par with the ones listed here

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Evie

There are a lot of v. highly paid C#.Net jobs in the finance industry aswell!

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Wes

This is that whole “know your market” thing. In Charlotte, heavy banking, energy, and healthcare industries, senior .NET dev base salaries are hovering around $110k - $120k.

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Patrick Tingen

My thoughts as well. I am in the process of switching to C#, but salary-wise, this appears to be a bad decision. At least, according to this post.

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John Pham

Microsoft primarily uses C# internally. There's also hundreds of sales people trying to get other companies onto the same stack.