What is the amount of money the average computer specialist makes per year?

Question

If someone were to get their M.S. or Ph.D in computer science and did something with computer security, what would their average yearly income be?

Answer 1

Anything digital will be outsourced to countries with a lower payscale than now anticipated for the USA.  That includes all digital work from programming to reading X-rays of bones.  The trick would be to find something that can't be outsourced.  Perhaps one might try being a lobbyist for this industry if you are a red, white and blue American.  You would have to represent the industry's position in person in DC, because the underlying work could also be sent offshore.

Answer 2

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.h...

scroll down...official stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics  (college professor/retired IBM exec mgr)

Answer 3

$80,000/yr.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degr...