This differs by market. Check out some of the stats on salary.com, among others. Someone with the same skill-set in South Carolina might make half as much as his counterpart in New York.
Average salary without a qualifier such as state -- better yet, city -- is meaningless.
Dunno about server admins, but for programmers straight out of college, 35-40k/year, 50-60k for rather advanced guy and then it just goes up depending on experience. Around 70k/year should get you a pretty good senior programmer that can do frameworks and coordinate outsourced workers.
Edit: that's in my area, converted into USD.. it varies depending where you are
oh btw, im talking US staff.. not some 3rd world crap
"Third world crap" can be just as good as "first world crap" - if not better in some instances.
IT grads with some experience in Costa Rica earn around $10K/year - a salary for experienced programmers around $15K/year but can go as high as ya like if it's someone highly valued.
CR is exporting fair amounts of software annually and this is obviously increasing - it's nicer to program shit here than in some other places.
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