How do IT people react to information that earns 140 million/month?

Recently, on social networks suddenly spread the information “Vietnam IT salary up to more than 140 million/month” . The information was quickly shared by a series of large forums and attracted the attention of a large number of netizens.

Below these posts, a lot of mixed opinions appear. Some people are curious about this job, some sellers doubt the accuracy of the information, but also many sober people assert that any profession will have a high income if qualified. With tens of thousands of comments, it is not difficult to see how much people care about the IT profession.

People in the profession talk about salary

Before discussing the salary of IT people, we reached out to people in the industry to find out. The answer is that in the Vietnamese market, there are IT personnel with a salary of 140 million / month but very rarely, it is usually someone who has worked to the position of director.

With many years of experience and having opened a company in the IT field, Phuong Nguyen said: “The salary of a programmer will be in the range of a few hundred to 3,000 USD/month (about 71 million/month), whoever is better will be higher. Some people work for foreign companies, about 4,000 – 5,000 USD/month (about 94.6 – 118.3 million/month) is completely possible if good. If you go up, “eat” 2-3 salaries, your monthly income is usually 90 million or more.

However, in order to achieve these numbers, programmers often have to work very hard, make their brains explode, and do it to the point of babbling alone. Therefore, most IT salaries fall in the range of 10 – 50 million, are normal people, go to sleep after work, but do not do this or that.”

As a programmer, Hong Son (25 years old, web developer – web developer) said: “This number is yes but not much, if not very little. To achieve 140 million/month, it must be at the CTO level and the average programmer is not like that” .

More specifically, Son revealed according to his personal observations as follows: “The actual number is generally not as high as in the report. Interns and fresh graduates will be less than 10 million/month. Programmers have 1 – 2 years of experience will range from 10 to 17 million/month, 3 – 5 years of experience will be about 20 – 30 million, … depending on the number of years of experience” .

Huy Hoang (25 years old, mobile developer – mobile application development) also believes that IT salary is calculated based on experience and capacity.

The salary of IT people that Hoang offers is slightly higher than Son: “As far as I can see, a programmer with 6 months – 1 year experience has a salary of 500 – 800 USD / month (about 11.8 – 19 million USD / month). /month), 2-3 years of experience will range from 1,000 – 1,500 USD/month (about 23.6 – 35.5 million/month) and this figure in 3 – 5 years of experience is 1,500 – 3,000 USD/month ( about 35.5 – 71 million/month) More than that, I haven’t reached yet, so I don’t care. The numbers I give are total income, excluding taxes, insurance, union, …” .

Good people will be rich

With the above figures, it can be said that the average income of jobs in the IT industry is quite high (the average income of Vietnamese workers in the first 6 months of 2022 is 6.5 million VND/month – General Department of Industry and Trade). statistical). There are many reasons leading to this situation such as the development of the technology field, the need for IT personnel of enterprises, the difficulty and requirement of many skills of the job,…

Commenting on income in the IT field in general, Phuong Nguyen frankly: “IT people are very rich now! Many people enter the market early, their houses and cars are brilliant, and travel is comfortable. However, not everyone. Everyone is like that, many of you go to work also suffer. In general, IT needs good personnel, but normal personnel are redundant” .

Hong Son said, after 3 years of working, he also encountered many cases of changing industries, from another profession to doing IT because he heard that the salary was thousands of dollars. “Actually, working in IT also has some easy parts, but the salary is higher than the average office salary, so it’s easy for people to change industries. So now it’s only the good people who lack but the average level of skill, it’s okay to go to the market in a hurry. But in general, IT is still a field with great career opportunities, income depends on years of experience, but in general, IT people are also rich.”

“The IT profession has been hot for decades and is maintained thanks to the development of science and technology. In addition, this job is also difficult, requires personnel to spend a lot of effort and brain, so sometimes the salary is not enough to pay for medical examination,” Huy Hoang said.