Software Engineer is the Best Job in the US

(This is an English version of my blog entry "アメリカで一番オイシイ仕事はソフトウェアエンジニア")The best job in the US is software engineer --- a joint investigation by Money mangazine and Salary.com says so.Their definition of best job is one having a good salary, little stress, high flexibility in time and place, creative and easy tasks, its job market growth for easy entrance. Above all other parameters, amount of salary and job opening increase. Everybody can easily tell whether higher or lower numbers are better for most of the items, but the difficulty item might be questionable. The article writer seems to consider easier jobs to be better.Although engineering is considered in the US to be a good job with high pay, the average salary for software engineers is far from top 10. However all the scores except for "difficulty" are very high. In addition to that, job openings will grow by 46% in 10 years (second highest increase). All the factors convined make software engineer "the best job."Referring to the more detailed salary information, average, median and quotile values are there, and they look about right. They are a bit lower than salary range in Silicon Valley, but there are reasons, like the high cost of living and high competition with niebouring companeis to retain talent.The job increase of 46% is really a surprising number. What happend to the popular story a few years ago that Offshoring Would Make Software Engineers Disappear in the US? Was it not true that only a small number of software architects and senior engineers could survive and the others would be gone?Many people say that outsourcing of software development leads to suffering with miserable quality products coming out on the deadline because of a huge amount of miscommunication. It can be OK if you establish a new subsidiary in the foreign locale and train the engineers yourself, but it has become conventional wisdom that it is a bad idea to just completely outsource something as important as software development. I suppose the scenario of making a subsidiary can cause demand reduction fro engineering positions in the US... unless the job market grows rapidly.There can be another theory. International companies answered the questionnaire from Money magazine "we are planning to hire such and such number of enigneers." They meant the number to be a worldwide total, but the magazine interpret it as the number in the US alone... no, it is too stupid to be true!

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