[abeppu]

> To be sure, comp-sci majors from top-tier schools can still get jobs. Pay, projected to be at about $75,000, is at the high end of majors reviewed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE.

Uh, this sounds like they must be citing an aggregate statistic that is definitely not for "top-tier" CS grads. $75K does not sound like a real number for people landing jobs at tech companies (as opposed to tech jobs at companies whose primary value is something else).

[abeppu]

E.g. this tool from Berkeley lets you select (but not deep link ...) by major and see median salary by year.

https://career.berkeley.edu/start-exploring/where-do-cal-gra...

- EECS goes from $116 in 2018-2019 to $129K in 2022-2023

- CS goes from $118K in 2018-2019 to $135K in 2022-2023 (I'm actually surprised that this is slightly higher than EECS, given that I think it's supposed to be the easier option).

Of course data from 2023-2024 grads won't be available for some time. But my point is that 75k would be like a 40% drop of median salaries. Is the dip really at that scale from last year's grads to this year's?

[dangus]

Don’t forget that tech jobs at real tech companies exist outside of Silicon Valley.

If you work for a tech company in the Midwest or the South, $75k is a perfectly reasonable junior salary.

[Mc91]

I work for a Fortune 100 in one of the 20 biggest metros in the US, $75k is a standard salary for juniors/associates getting an offer right out of college. Some may get a little more, some get less, I haven't met any who got $100k or more right out of school. None of them I've talked to came from a top-tier CS school.