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11.02Computer Programming

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Software Developer SOC 15-1252
Software developers design, build and maintain the systems everything else runs on. ⚠ A median of $135,980 nationally and $130,980 in Florida, on a bachelor's degree, and among the highest-paid on this site — above every two-year route and behind only computer hardware engineering. ⚠⚠ It is a CHOICE path: no single major owns it. Counted degrees show computing majors supplying under a third of working developers and ENGINEERING supplying nearly as many. ⚠⚠⚠ And it is the only career here you can enter with no degree at all — about one developer in five has none.
Computer programming — 26 Florida public institutions and 742 credentials, largely at state and technical colleges. Included because it is where much of the state's applied programming instruction actually sits, and because it is a realistic entry point rather than a lesser one.

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