| Please see the following salary survey: http://www.clearancejobs.com/files/CompensationSurvey2012.pd... It is: > A comprehensive earnings survey of security-cleared professionals, with 11,436 respondents from November 2011 to January 2012 > Key Findings: Earnings for professionals with an active federal security clearance increased over two percent since the 2011 ClearanceJobs Compensation Report, with an average total compensation of $90,865. Based on this empirical evidence, it is clear you are a bullshitter who doesn't know what he is talking about as your stated numbers are not even remotely close enough to the real numbers to have the least bit of credibility. Or perhaps you would care to provide a citation to your own 11,436 person survey of those with clearances. The survey cited here includes low skill stuff like IT support. Breaking out actual developers in one of the report's table we have the following total compensations: IT - Engineering (Software or System) $113,098 IT - Software (Programming or Web Dev) $101,809 |
If companies actually paid those amounts listed there'd be a line of applicants at the front door every single morning wanted the job.