I am a Microsoft full stack developer (ASP.NET C# SQL-Server MVC) contracting at mostly big companies with over 20 YOE. I am making $85/hr W-2 with no bennies. This is the most I’ve ever made and usually 130k is a good year. Not gonna lie, my field is flooded with H-1Bs. I live in SoCal and see new grads here on BLIND with starting TC equal to mine even at non-FANGS in the midwest. I am even seeing $60/hr in places like Phoenix for shit enterprise work that I do. I feel like the MSFT stack is the new COBOL and I might as well get used to low pay unless H-1Bs are banned and market forces of supply and demand prevail. I even went back to get a Masters in IS so that I could maybe teach on the side and I constantly troll Upwork for shit gigs without much luck. Any gray-beards out there making even close to 200k in the enterprise doing coding? Even leads here in SoCal top out at $150k.
Learn a new stack bro
And you think US have enough engineers to work in all the organizations when H1b is banned and no one here is on H1b. ?
Yes, because all those smart folks in medicine and law working 80 hours a week to pay off student loans will turn into programmers. There is a reason MDs and JDs make 500k-1m after 20 YOE. And US kids won’t shy away from STEM because they no longer would have to worry about competing with H-1bs with no college debt who will take low pay and bad working conditions in the hopes of a green card.
I didn't even know what a H1-B was until I was well out of college. You're completely full of shit if you think people going for JDs (social sciences) will become SWEs instead.
Bro. Things change very fast bro. No one even learns asp.net that much. Companies where money flows use the latest/better stack.
You’re making good money for CRUD apps. But perhaps you could do better. How good are your CS skills?
What stacks are suggested?
wtf is a asp? SQL Server isn't supported by any major cloud providers and Microsoft barely supports it in Azure. You have skills that aren't worth top dollar. Learn new skills.
You work on ASP.shit and still complain about H1-B snatching your job. You are already paid higher than you are worth. Get a life and before that fill your head with something less shitty.
Never really had to worry about an H-1B taking my job just driving down my wages with their desperation tactics. You know, like living 10 to an apartment and spending all day on the phone with their proxy coders while I try to work. And in the enterprise it is either .NET or Java. Big companies don’t run on Wordpress or PHP.
I don't know about H1, what I know is that upskilling keeps your ship sailing.. Net/Java/ASP is the equivalent of flipping burgers at a mcD. You shld shoot for the chef at a fine dine.
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It's no surprise that devs working in ASP.net earn jack $hit Learn a newer stack