Would love to see a comparison study based on UK data.
Anon as I work in the industry.
Are you an infosec bod? You must be STINKING RICH, says study
Jobs in the lucrative cyber-security sector can command salaries of $200,000 or more, according to a new salary survey. Lead software security engineer pull in an average of $233,333 while Chief Security Officer ($225,000) and Global Information Security Director ($200,000) also receive serious salaries. A new study of 2015 …
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Tuesday 12th May 2015 15:15 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
Re: security installation technicians?
No, those guys make a lot of cash (or at lest that is what I gathered from the cost of getting one over to our office), I'd think that those making $31k are going to be your front line help desk folk that happen to have Security+ or another basic security certification.
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Thursday 14th May 2015 18:35 GMT Michael Wojcik
Location matters
Cost-of-living in the US varies so widely that there's not a lot of point in quoting average salaries for a job title (even assuming that title means the same thing across firms, which is pretty dubious).
I did a little browsing on Dice and it looks like in the upper Midwest, salaries for "Lead Software Security Engineer" and similar jobs seems to be in the area of $150K, which is not that dissimilar from other top-tier software development positions.
The $230K jobs are more likely to be in places like the Bay Area, which is much more expensive. My house would cost five times as much out there - and I wouldn't like the neighborhood (or weather, or continual series of natural disasters) nearly as much. But of course some people like living in those expensive coastal cities - that's why they're expensive.
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