What Is Happening to the Market?

Question

I am a dev with 6+ years of experience.What is happening to the dev market? I can't help but notice a trend.On twitter, I see 17 year old devs pulling in 120k+ annual income [1].At 17, I had not even started my college yet.Is this the new normal?It all seems to be a bit surreal seeing teenagers make so much money in high school while they struggle to even make a proper git commit.[1] https://twitter.com/PrasoonPratham/status/1468899558289592322

zaphar · Accepted Answer

Software dev salaries are going up quite a bit. And when I was 17 I probably had enough experience doing software dev to justify getting hired. It's even easier today to get relevant experience at that age. I don't really see it as all that surprising.

yuppie_scum · Answer

If Twitter was reflective of broader reality, Bernie would have been president 3 times already

tboyd47 · Answer

What's wrong with that? Salary is all relative to cost of living. And Git is typically not taught in schools.

uberman · Answer

Alas, it is not just teens who sometimes struggle to even make a proper git commit.