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Senior Web Developer

2008 Average Salary Range: $76,250 to $108,250

The 2008 salary range is an increase of 6.6 percent over this job’s 2007 salary range, which was $71,000 to $102,000.

The 2006 salary range was an increase of 1.1 percent over this job’s 2005 salary range, which was $68,000 to $96,750.

Add 10 percent for Java development skills, 10 percent for Java Enterprise Edition development skills, 5 percent for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/PERL) development skills, 5 percent for AJAX development skills, 5 percent for Microsoft Sharepoint skills, 5 percent for Cold Fusion development skills, 7 percent for Web services development skills, 5 percent for Active Server Page development skills, 10 percent for DCOM/COM/ActiveX development skills, 12 percent for C# development skills, 10 percent for Visual Basic .NET development skills, and 5 percent for WebLogic clustering administration skills.

Note: Since these numbers are national averages, adjust them based on your area of the country.

Salary levels are, approximately 7 percent to 20 percent higher in the Northeast, about average in the South Atlantic (Florida to Delaware), average to modestly lower in the Midwest and South, and 5 percent to 25 percent higher on the West coast.

IT salaries in large metropolitan areas are higher than the national average. For example, in following cities they are:

City

Deviation

Boston, Mass. 24% higher
Stamford, Conn. 30% higher
New York, N.Y. 41% higher
Washington, D.C. 30% higher
Philadelphia, Penn. 15% higher
Atlanta, Ga. 15% higher
Miami, Fla. 15% higher
Chicago, Ill. 23% higher
Dallas/Houston, Texas 5% higher
Irvine, Calif. 25% higher
Los Angeles, Calif. 25% higher
San Diego, Calif. 21% higher
San Francisco, Calif. 30% higher
San Jose, Calif. 27% higher
Seattle, Wash. 18% higher

Job Types

» Chief Technology Officer   
» Applications Development: Developer/Programmer   
» Business Systems Analyst   
» Database Manager   
» Senior Web Developer   
» Networking/Telecommunications: Network Engineer   
» Project Manager   
» Systems Security Administrator   
» Help Desk Manager

Salary data courtesy of Robert Half Technology. To request a copy of the complete Robert Half Salary Guide, which includes salary ranges for more than 60 different job titles, in the U.S. and Canada, click here.

This article was originally published on Datamation.

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