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LSU Computer Science Majors, what are you making in today's job market?

Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:29 pm
Posted by Chastains
Member since Nov 2024
120 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:29 pm
Are you living in or out of Louisiana?

What's your yearly salary?

Did you go in a different field?

Do any of y'all know someone with this degree and how are they doing?
Posted by WillieD
Lafayette/BR
Member since Apr 2014
2963 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:30 pm to
$350k
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
147884 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:31 pm to
quote:

what are you making in today's job market?
what’s unemployment? Like $200 a week?
Posted by chRxis
None of your fricking business
Member since Feb 2008
26689 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:31 pm to
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Computer Science

i'd think with the rise of AI, this will really phase out a lot of people that were thinking of going this route...
Posted by CFDoc
Member since Jan 2013
2238 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:35 pm to
Disagree. I’m knee deep in AI. It’s like anything else. Just because it replaces some part of a technological space, it also opens up a vast amount of new spaces that are in high demand of people that can understand the low-level nature of computing.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
57986 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:39 pm to
My oldest graduated in Comp Sci back in May

Moved to Tx is making $70,000
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36083 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 7:40 pm to
quote:

i'd think with the rise of AI, this will really phase out a lot of people that were thinking of going this route...


Think about how many retards will need help operating AI. These idiots can’t even restart their computer
Posted by Slingscode
Houston, TX
Member since Sep 2011
2186 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 8:03 pm to
My first "real" job in IT was for Gulf Oil in 1982.
I was rockin $19,200 a year.

At the end of my career just over $200k a year
This post was edited on 9/5/25 at 8:22 pm
Posted by BeerMoney
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2012
8779 posts
Posted on 9/5/25 at 8:10 pm to
I have a computer science degree from LSU. I do well enough you won’t believe me. I have many employees making six figures with technical degrees, some with non technical degrees. Many went to LSU. The thing about software engineering is you can get the degree, but still not be good at it. Best software engineer I know has no degree at all and is about 35 years old.

Many of my interns end up leaving the state. Typically to Texas due to lack of opportunity in Louisiana.

AI has been interesting. We all have to learn it, and how to get value from it. It is indeed very useful. Thus far it’s been augmenting us not replacing. The basic thought is that over time it’ll reduce the need for additional people rather than replace people. At least in the 3ish year timeframe.
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