Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts - The New York Times

Cloud + big data employment dynamics

"In the Bay Area, $125,000 a year is not an uncommon salary for someone newly out of graduate school with the expertise to do cloud computing work. With five years of experience, $300,000 along with a range of stock or job opportunities that greatly inflate the value of those paychecks have become the norm.

“It’s an aggressive market,” said Corey Sanders, director of program management at Microsoft Azure. “We are all data engineers now, and we can convince people that this is the best place to learn that.”"

Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts - The New York Times