The very rich (and chauvinist) world of Silicon Valley. It is well known that the future of business increasingly lies in innovation and the digital economy, but that working on apps, databases, computer programming and everything related to the hi-tech universe was increasingly profitable. a novelty. On the other hand, it is not surprising - unfortunately - that those who were once called Nerds, but who are now young creatives or, better yet, startuppers, increasingly richer and less "loser", are almost exclusively male.
To be precise, 86% of Silicon Valley software engineers are male and their average salary, according to research by study Riviera Partners, a technical recruiting firm in the Bay Area, grew in 2012 by 3,7% from $114.600 gross in 2011 to $119.000 in the year just ended. In the paradise of the technological industry, the richest turn out to be the database specialists, who are worth 130.500 dollars a year, while the humblest Front-End and HTML developers still bring home almost 110.000 dollars. A universe that is growing at full speed, and which represents the greatest job (and enrichment) opportunity of the future. Only for men though.
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