Starting Salary Statistics
|
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
Average |
$67,500 |
$69,908 |
$69,985 |
$75,848 |
Median |
$71,000 |
$73,250 |
$71,750 |
$80,000 |
High |
$85,000 |
$90,000 |
$86,000 |
$100,000 |
Low |
$40,000 |
$32,200 |
$42,000 |
$25,000 |
Top Hiring Companies by # of New Hires
Top Companies |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
Total |
Microsoft |
15 |
9 |
9 |
20 |
53 |
8 |
14 |
6 |
8 |
36 |
|
Amazon |
2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
9 |
FactSet |
|
2 |
2 |
5 |
9 |
Salesforce.com |
|
|
3 |
4 |
7 |
Goldman Sachs |
|
4 |
2 |
|
6 |
Endeca |
|
|
3 |
3 |
6 |
Carnegie Mellon |
3 |
|
2 |
|
5 |
Apple |
|
2 |
|
2 |
4 |
NVIDIA |
|
2 |
|
2 |
4 |
IBM |
4 |
|
|
|
4 |
VMWare |
|
|
4 |
|
4 |
Top Employment Locations
Region |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
Percentage |
West: AZ, CA, HI, NV |
16 |
23 |
21 |
22 |
28.57% |
Northwest: AK, CO, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA, WY |
18 |
11 |
10 |
25 |
22.30% |
Northeast: CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VIT |
8 |
20 |
14 |
12 |
18.82% |
Mid-Atlantic: DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV |
17 |
16 |
14 |
7 |
18.82% |
Midwest: IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI |
3 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
3.83% |
Southeast: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN |
2 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
3.83% |
International |
3 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
2.79% |
Southwest: AZ, NM, OK, TX |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1.05% |
