depending on taxes/cost of living, even $150k isn't necessarily "rich"

Making a career path out of 1 language is sort of dumb. Mastering a language, declaring it your career path, and not giving yourself the opportunity of being an all around programmer? An assumption with the post.



Seeing as some people do 2 or more jobs just to make ends meet with an apartment and food, I think a 60k+ is more than enough cushion for ->a<- person to live more than comfortably. Being more than comfortable, in my opinion, is rich. Especially nowadays.

I agree. but OP specifically wants to know about web developers. it's like someone saying they want to be a middle school teacher and asking about salary, then you link them stats about tenured college professors and principals. it's certainly possible to expand into those roles, but not really what OP is looking for.




personally i feel 150k is upper middle class and not rich, but i'll agree it's debatable. 60k is a different story. raising a family of 4 on 60k is just middle class.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 7 2015 01:12pm

No, this is only the case if you're a sperglord who can't communicate or interact with other human beings. Fortunately you're in good company because that's most programmers.