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Salary for Project Manager |
| Message Name: |
Web / Internet Proj. Managers |
| Date Posted: |
12/13/1999 |
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I worked as Associate Producer at a small web/interactive shop outside of Philadelphia and started at $27 K, I was quite nontechnical and just entering field, and ended at $31 K (by end of two years).
I think that may have been on the low end though. I have just moved to LA and associate producers are earning here upwards of 40-45 K.
So project manager may be in the range of $50-60 K -- however, I would think lower though in SouthEast, and if not in a major market.
HTH! |
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You must be talking about web page designers, "producers" and those in the graphic desgin or "creative" end of website development. Internet application developers (i.e., programmers, back-end database developers, internet/intranet architect, net designers, etc.), on the other hand, are compensated quite well.
Here in the North NJ section of the New York metro-area, project leaders of Web based applications are compensated in the $85 - $105K range and project managers in the $100 - $140K range. Web app developers are compensated as follows:
trainees $42 - $ 50K; junior $55 - $62K. Experienced devekopers are compensated differently depending on whether or not they are per-annum (i.e., "permanents") or per-diem ("contractors"). Per-annums are compensated in the $70 - $100K range depending on the development tool (e.g., Broadvision, MS-Interdev, MS-Sitebuilder, Cold Fusion, SilverStream, etc.), language (Perl, Visual Basic, C++, Java, Javascript, XML, etc.) , back-end tool (Oracle database, DB2 database, Informatica ETL, Sagent ETL, Lotus Notes, etc.) and protocols (COM/DCOM, DOM. CORBA, CGI, ASP, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, SNA, etc.). Contractors, with the same background earn a premium putting them in the $110 - $150K range.
Of course, these are salaries here on the NJ side of the Hudson where the cost of living is much less than in NY City. The above rates would be MUCH higher for those actually working within NY City, particularly Manhattan.
Also, in the case of many start-ups there is a trend to hire larger cohorts of the under 28-yr old crowd at somewhat lower salaried in exchange for the possibility of stock-options against a possible IPO sometime 2 or 3 years down the line. So, in this case, you may see salaries as low as $60 or $70K even for experienced web app developers. The love of working at an "e-job" along woth the dream of a big $$$ IPO can be considered compensation that supplements an otherwise low pay-check (low for NY, at any rate).
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