The Reality Behind Web Developer Salaries 2022

Are you curious about the salaries of web developers in tech?

Do you want to make six figures?

In this video, we take a look at the real truth behind web developer salaries. You might be surprised by what you learn!

00:00 intro
0:18 will everyone make six figures in tech?
0:55 Sponsored by Showwcase
2:14 #1 - Why some people never make more than six figures
3:24 #2 - Afraid to take more challenging jobs
4:12 - #3 Under estimating your value
4:45 - #4 why some people earn six figures at their first tech job

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[CodingGimmic]

I'm 15 and I'm a self-taught aspiring Front end dev. Still learning tho and trying to improve every day and be good enough to become a real developer, living freely, being able to get cool tech stuff. Learning JavaScript at the moment and loving it even though it's tough, everything is tough in life, but the end results are always worth it.

[walterwilliams]

I’ve been procrastinating on coding because I was scared that I wasn’t smart or talented enough to be a coder and that I’d be stuck in retail for the rest of my life. But now I see people with similar stories that I believe I can do this. I’m 25 having a mid life crisis but I know I can do this.

[RA-xxmz]

90k first job. Interviewing next week for a position that earns 95-125k a year.

Interview skills are vital.

[gensaikuroki]

You also need to know how to negotiate a higher salary. I've met devs who are just as good as or even better than me but I make more because they cannot negotiate when it comes to salaries.

[BeastMaster]

I really don't care if I make it to 6 fig I just care that I can pay all my bills, live comfortable and travel when I want or take a break if I want

[jimbo_dilly]

4-yr degree in Mechanical Engineering with minor in CS. My wife works as a Front End Software Engineer. Here are her years at jobs, specific industry, job titles, and salaries.

6mo - Defense Contractor - Engineer I (Junior Dev) - $55, 000
1yr - Defense Contractor - Engineer II (Mid-Level Dev) - $75, 000
2yr - Defense Contractor - Engineer II (Mid-Level Dev) - $95, 000 (Remote work)
1yr - Financial Start-up - Engineer III (Lead Front-End Dev Team) - $140, 000 (Remote work)
(Current) 1mo - Medical Start-up - Engineer IV (Lead 2 teams of Devs) - $180, 000 (Remote work)

My advice for any software engineering/developer career.
1. Get out of your comfort zone in the job.
2. Continue learning new skills outside of work hours. I spend 15-30 min a day on this.
3. Don't get stuck only using one or two programming languages. More languages equals a more diverse skillset
4. Switch to remote work because you can easily switch jobs without additonal expenses in life life moving or more expensive areas of the country.
5. Only take job opportunities that increase your salary by a minimum of 20%
6. Take as many interviews as possible. The more practice you get, the more comfortable you wil become in them.
7. Do not work for any early Start-ups until you have 3-6 months worth of expenses in a savings account.

8. Always take your new job offer in writing to your current employer to see if they will match or beat the new offer.
9. Move companies often. No one really cares if you work for companies less than a year when you tell them the reason you moved was for a 20% pay increase that your company couldn't match.
10. Never burn bridges with previous employers or co-workers.
11. Always keep your LinkedIn up to date. Recruiting companies have a special account they get from LinkedIn to pull mass data lists to find people.
12. Always keep benefit packages (401k, health insurance, etc.) in mind because they vary vastly from company to company.
13. When you get a job offer in writing, always have the companies HR work out a mock up check so you know exactly how much you will get after taxes and benefits.
14. Always get your sign-on bonus prorated over a year. Never have sign on bonus that ties you to the company for more than a year.
12. (Secret) If you can't negotiate a higher salary and/or larger sign-on bonus, companies will sometime negotiate a higher 401k contribution and/or pay more of your health insurance premiums.

[SheWhoTechs]

I have been in tech 3 years, web development, cybersecurity, technical writing, etc, and still only make $30k. My problem is that I still have not buckled down to focus on developing skills in a programming language. I need to build stuff again. I have learned all the concepts, but I lack applied practice. I have built many websites, IT Service Desk, and a lot of impressive stuff. But they were all built on platforms like WordPress, ContentStack, Confluence, etc…. I lack the skills to build from scratch. I want to start building stuff in the basics, like JavaScript, React, PHP, Python, Django, etc…. I just need to jump on the computer earlier each day and dedicate a couple hours before work to building out projects. That is what I need to do. Work is having me back in cybersecurity, learning SQL to work in retrieving reports in databases currently. So I am attempting to learn that for work and also build web application before work for JavaScript.

[JSephH]

Great video! Fun fact: I've seen some studies that show that in order to optimize for salary the most effective job hopping pattern is in roughly a Fibonacci sequence. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. I'm not sure what size dataset they used or the rigor of the study but it's interesting nonetheless!

[felixc.programs]

Nice! Your content really helped me find myself as a new Tech Youtuber that switched careers to the tech industry recently. That's all!

[bruhmomento]

About the college part I was wondering if I made a bad move or not because I applied for 2 years of learning web development but its basically free because of fafsa and grants but at the same time now watching this video I'm realizing I could learn everything myself

[iParaShane]

4 years of college with CS degree in Ireland and your starting salary is 35k a year. 50k a year after a few years. 70-100k for senior dev

[JoseGarcia-vrmx]

As a Laravel, Vue, & TS dev I make 140k with the potential to make 210k. Not sure why people think that there is no money in the LAMP stack.

[anythingbutASIC]

4:39 Jquery and PHP.. As a JUMP developer I felt that.. I tried to learn some react and It made me hate Node.js even more.. Node.js is like the unmature incomplete project that some 18 yrold made in the basement of facebook.. I know I'm going to get a lot of flame for this but let me know how many times your MERN stack project has crashed because someone though it would be a great idea to rework half the code base of a library and push it over a update.. Or a your github repository instructions not being viable anymore for compling from source because the stack has been updated 12 times in the last month without you knowing..

[Mmvexxx]

I’m going the self taught route. 3 months in. Just getting a little discouraged with all the tech layoffs and what not

[leevc]

I'm currently going for my degree in computer science. I'm not trying to make 6 figures. I just want peace and stability. I would LOVE and be GRATEFUL to make 80k in the future! I've never even made over 20k before!

[TheSoulCrisis]

There's also plenty of college graduates that spend more than 4 years in school and make 60K on their skills, portfolios, and what companies they get into. Top graduates sure, they break six figures right out of school. Building projects and experience first so you can work earlier is definitely going to put you ahead though cause that's just what pays in tech. As long as someone in school worked on their skills and excelled in their coursework they can match any other type of developer later on though.

[adizzzleV]

I'm currently an entry level dev at my first job. I'm making under 100k.

The goal is to reach Chris level lol

[marty]

I really like the video quality and your editing well done!

[therainbro]

I think it depends on where you work, but if you have more than two years of experience, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be making under $100k. Even if you stay at the same company, you should be able to negotiate your salary 2x a year

[nonequivalence]

Today I got a job offer for $130k (up from $78k as software engineer with over 4yrs of exp) but I'm hesitant to take it because the senior engineer didn't give me good vibes during the interview. He made it look like him interviewing me was a nuisance based on his body language. I aced all the questions he asked but it felt like he didn't know what he was talking about. Also, their deployment process and the code bases they work with seem like it's a sh!t show. I'm not sure if I should take this offer or not but I'm desperately trying to leave the current company I'm at because my engineering manager is just insane....safe to say my weekend will be spent pondering what I should do.