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							     AREA                               The median wage for computer programmers
     FOCUS                              was more than twice the U.S. median wage.

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        In Boston and San Francisco,
     ●

     computer programmers were
                                                                   Ratio of median wages for computer programmers to median wages
     paid less than twice the median                               for all occupations in the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, May 2007
     wage for those areas.
     ● Although Seattle had the

     highest paid computer program-               2.5
     mers, median wages in Dallas,
     Miami, and Los Angeles were                  2.4
     higher relative to wages for all
     workers in the area.
                                                  2.3
     ● In Dallas, computer program-

     mers were paid almost 2.5 times
     the median wage for Dallas.                  2.2


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