Highest Paying Tech Jobs Of 2016

Mahesh Chand

Highest paying jobsIT top jobstop salaries

17 Comments

Join the conversation! Your thoughts help the community grow.

Sam Aviles4y ago
Salaries of tech jobs vary based on location, company, skillset, and need.
Janshair Khan10y ago
These are monthly salary or yearly?
- Mahesh Chand10y ago
  Annual :). I think Monthly will be too much :)
Thiruppathi R10y ago
Such a Great Info
Lakshmanan Sethu Sankaranarayan10y ago
Thank you Mahesh for the share
Shamim Uddin10y ago
Nice
Subash10y ago
Some of the jobs are i event don't know in this field thanks for sharing sir
Ankur Verma10y ago
Nice
Deepak Tewatia10y ago
nice sir
Rupesh Kahane10y ago
Very nice article
Saineshwar Bageri10y ago
Nice article sir
Neeraj Pal10y ago
Thanks for sharing
Upendra Pratap Shahi10y ago
Nice information sir...
Vignesh Mani10y ago
Good one
Lalit Raghav10y ago
Nice Article & Thanks for sharing
Humayun Kabir Mamun10y ago
Thanks for sharing...
Rajeesh Menoth10y ago
Great!!

Tech jobs are one of the highest-paying jobs in the world. Here is a list of the 14 top-paying tech jobs in America in 2016, according Glassdoor.

Rank	Job	Median Base Salary	Openings
#1	Research & Development Manager	$142,120	112
#2	Software Development Manager	$132,000	3,495
#3	Software Architect	$128,250	655
#4	IT Manager	$120,000	3,152
#5	Solutions Architect	$120,000	2,838
#6	Application Development Manager	$120,000	263
#7	Systems Architect	$116,920	439
#8	Data Scientist	$115,000	1,985
#9	Creative Director	$115,000	696
#10	Data Architect	$113,000	762
#11	Product Manager	$107,000	7,758
#12	Design Manager	$106,500	510
#13	Analytics Manager	$106,000	988
#14	Information Systems Manager	$106,000	147

As you can see from the above list, the Product Manager openings are more plentiful than any other job, followed by Software Development Manager and IT Manager.

In another report published by Forbes (original source Indeed) that did not include management positions, the Software Architect positon is the highest-paying job in America. Here is a list of the top 10 highest-paying tech jobs in America in 2016.

Rank	Job	Salary
1	Software Architect	$116,267
2	Data Scientist	$109,399
3	DevOps Engineer	$106,045
4	Software Engineer	$98,304
5	Java Developer	$98,304
6	Mobile Developer	$96,133
7	Frontend Developer	$92,133
8	Software Developer	$87,185
9	Database Admin	$87,025
10	.NET Developer	$83,936

OK, now let’s take a look at the typical path of a software professional.

Student -> Programmer -> Developer -> Tech Lead -> PM/Architect -> IT/Product Manager -> CTO/CIO -> CEO.

In this path, each title means more experience and better salary. That obviously means, a CTO gets paid much more than a programmer. An article published on MUO lists 6 of the Best Paying Tech Careers for 2016 of MUO.

Chief Technology Officer ($147,500 - $229,000)
Senior Web Developer ($111,250 - $154,000)
Mobile App Developer ($115,250 - $175,750)
Big Data Engineer ($129,500 - $183,500)
Data Scientist ($109,000 - $153,750)
Network Architect ($120,000 - 175,000)

Now, this list looks very realistic.

Here is a list of the six top-paid CTOs and their salaries.

Rasmus Norling, Poly Shield Technologies: $81.845 million
Michael Schroepfer, Facebook: $12.558 million
Neville R. Ray, T-Mobile US: $9.14 million
Kevin L. Timmons, Cyrusone: $6.85 million
Cadir B. Lee, Zynga: $6.185 million
Peng Xiao, MicroStrategy: $5.55 million

Impact on salaries

Salaries of tech jobs vary based on location, company, skillset, and need. The need is actually one of the most important factors. If a company needs a C# programmer and they can’t find a suitable candidate within their salary range, they will pay a premium for that. If a developer is also a product manager, even if he or she still writes ruby code, he or she may get an additional bonus. A Java developer in New York makes almost twice as much as one somewhere in a small town in Ohio.

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Here is a list of some related useful articles:

The Highest-Paying Programming Languages of Year 2016