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Hector Castillo

K. Goulding,

CSIS-1030-405-F17

November 22, 2017

Best jobs for computer science majors by salary potential.

In the name of computer science, technology is taking over the world. Some of the

greater jobs in the market are in computer science filed. To operate and learn such skills we

might need to incline in a career in computers. Engaging such a thing might lead us to a path of

success and happiness. Finding out if you would like to fall in love with any of these careers of

the computer science. Nevertheless, since money play a great roll in life considering any of this

careers could really impact our lives.

It seems that computer science majors are in high demand in these days. While doing my

research I found over the web more than 50 computer science majors by salary, but in this paper

I will just address the top 5. Many of us including myself we tend to incline ourselves in a

position or career that make a lot of money. Well after all it is a material world and as we know

money is essential in this life to fulfill our needs, hobbies and other things that we might want to

get. So, there is a pretty good website that come across; payscale.com according to this website

the top 5 best jobs by salary in the U.S.A: 1 Software Development Engineer (SDE), 2 Android

Software Developer, 3 Cyber Security Engineer, 4 Software Development Engineer, Test

(SDET). 5 Computer Scientist. The top salary is (SDE) $71,785 - $132,249 with a medium

income of $103,046. Description; work in a range of industries to apply the principles and

techniques of computer engineering, information analysis, and computer science to design, build,

and develop their employers computer systems and software. Experienced computer software
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engineers may work independently as consultants to various organizations, and may either build

computer systems and software from scratch or customize existing systems and software which

were purchased from vendors. They must make all software modifications as requested by their

clients or employers and test all software to ensure that it works properly. Android Software

Developer Comes in second place with an average salary of $50,438 - $121,773, with a medium

salary of $ 80,974. The android software developers are in charge of creating effective mobile

applications for their organization on the Android platform. They create software designed to

meet company objectives and provide excellent customer satisfaction. Android software

developers frequently collaborate with creative staff to integrate graphics and functionality into

the applications.

Cyber Security Engineer falls in third place with an average salary of $59,062 - $131,943,

with a medium salary of effectively communicate security information to fellow analysts and

customers. Use technical skills to respond to threats and emergency security incidents in a

timely manner. Lead team in engineering solutions or improvements to prevent malicious

activity. Use strong knowledge of computers and electronics to monitor and analyze data

from various security systems. Four place, Software Development Engineer, Test (SDET)

Salary $55,087 - $117,943. Software development engineers, test (usually abbreviated as

SDETs), are software developers working inside the testing team. He or she has full access to

code and carries a variety of responsibilities. One of the key things that sets the SDET apart

is his or her access to code; he or she actively participates in debugging and altering code as

necessary. In this capacity, at times, the SDET almost assumes something of a hybrid role

between the developers and the testers. Fifth place Computer Scientist average pay is

$48,938 - $124,372. Computer scientists develop and maintain computer-based tools to

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facilitate and improve their organization's functioning. They may work with a variety of

teams and individuals in their company; for example, a computer scientist may design a

database to track inventory for a company or develop an algorithm to predict customer trends

to help guide production and development. While according to this statistics salary is

different if you work in another city or state, in addition to this experience can make a big

change in the salary. Again, even that there are more subfields in the computer science

industry. The top 5 are very appealing.

There is a lot of potential in these kinds of jobs for example, as we know, it looks like

technology is getting into the hands of more people every minute. Just speaking for myself at

home we have two desktops computers, 4 laptops. By the way I am not counting smart

phones, tables and video games. This is outrageous. Right now computer science

employment is higher than any other career in the market. According to the Bureau of labor

statistics jobs in the computer science fields are increasing very high, in the new few years to

come computer science jobs will increase to a 30%. In conclusion I need to consider all the

aspects of a new career again I know that money play a great roll when the time comes to

pick job, but also I will consider if is something that I want to do in other words if I can do it

every day and have fun at the same time that is good to be a very well decision. So, far I

really like the top 3 which is Cyber Security Engineer falls in third place with an average

salary of $59,062 - $131,943. As you can see it is not the type of career that makes more

money, but I found pretty interesting to be in the look up for treats to networks or when

somebody hack in the system of a company and investigate those aspects seem pretty cool to

me even if is not in the top 1. I will conclude by saying the passion is more important than

money.
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Work citied

Salaries report, 2017, https://www.payscale.com/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Latest Numbers, https://www.bls.gov/

Department of Workforce Services, https://jobs.utah.gov/