15 of the most popular tech jobs for Generation Z <\/b>(Ranked by average compensation)<\/b><\/p>\n
The jobs below represent 15 of the most popular technology jobs for people aged 18 to 25. Mobile developers, data scientists and product managers earn the most on average, with total compensation (salary + bonus) at more than $95,000 a year. Customer service reps, marketing associates and technical support managers earn $50,000 or less on average.<\/p>\n
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Mobile developer $96,631
\nData scientist $96,115
\nProduct manager $95,266
\nDeveloper $93,987
\nDevOps engineer $87,400
\nUI\/UX designer $80,296
\nFinancial analyst $69,560
\nBusiness analyst $69,367
\nSystem administrator $67,464
\nOperations manager $64,853
\nAccount manager $59,229
\nSales rep $53,891
\nTechnical support manager $50,306
\nMarketing associate $50,185
\nCustomer service rep $43,924<\/p>\n
[Compensation shown is average total compensation (base salary + bonus). Sample: 4,800 people aged 18 to 25 employed at small, mid-size, and large U.S. tech companies.]<\/em><\/p>\n By gender <\/b>(Ranked alphabetically by job title)<\/p>\n When segmented by gender, the data shows that men 18 to 25 generally earn more in every job role than women, with the exception of developers, mobile developers and system administrators.<\/p>\n Text version:<\/p>\n Men Women [Compensation shown is median total compensation (base salary + bonus). Sample: 3,535 men and 1,265 women aged 18 to 25 employed at small, mid-size, and large U.S. tech companies.]<\/em><\/p>\n By location (Ranked alphabetically by job title)<\/p>\n San Francisco compensation tends to be the best for workers 18 to 25 in nearly every job role. The exceptions: NY tends to pay best for customer service reps, LA tends to pay best for DevOps engineers and Seattle tends to as well as San Francisco for data scientists and better than San Francisco for product managers.<\/p>\n [Compensation shown is median total compensation (base salary + bonus). Sample: At least 250 compensation records per ethnicity for people aged 18 to 25.]<\/em><\/p>\n Text version:<\/p>\n [Compensation shown is median total compensation (base salary + bonus). Sample: At least 250 compensation records per ethnicity for people aged 18 to 25.]<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Workplace Trends for Gen Z (ages 18 to 25)<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On workplace stress and harassment<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On AI, #TimesUp, cryptocurrency and career blocks<\/b><\/p>\n On their coworkers<\/b><\/p>\n On the skills they value most<\/b><\/p>\n Methodology<\/b><\/p>\n — Workplace Trends data comes from 2,050 anonymous responses from people 18 to 25 across the technology sector About Comparably<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n Comparably is a workplace culture and compensation monitoring site where employees can anonymously and publicly rate their companies and CEOs, access salary data, and find their dream jobs. The comprehensive platform gives job seekers a more accurate picture of what it’s like to work inside an organization because the salary and workplace culture data is structured and segmented by gender, ethnicity, age, location, tenure, company size, equity, title\/department, and education. Since its launch in 2016, Comparably has accumulated more than 5 million ratings from employees across 45,000 U.S. businesses, and has become one of the most used SaaS solutions for employer branding with over 10,000 companies actively engaged with accounts. For more information, go to Comparably.com. For highly-cited workplace culture and compensation lists, including Comparably’s annual Best Places to Work and Best CEOs, go to Comparably.com\/blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Move over millennials: It\u2019s all about Generation Z. Born in the mid-90s to early 2000s, people in this group are vastly different even from millennials. They have no memory of the 9\/11 terror attacks; they can\u2019t remember life without a smartphone. As more of Gen Z\u2019s 61 million members pour into the workforce, they\u2019re bound … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[39,69,86,283,284,53,381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"champion\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/champion.png\")
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\nAccount manager $59,233 $59,224
\nBusiness analyst $69,149 $69,800
\nCustomer service rep $44,800 $42,971
\nData scientist $97,210 $90,991
\nDeveloper $92,748 $100,910
\nDevOps engineer $87,075 $89,656
\nFinancial analyst $69,683 $69,074
\nMarketing associate $55,375 $48,149
\nMobile developer $96,220 $100,827
\nOperations manager $66,701 $62,282
\nProduct manager $96,452 $92,316
\nSales rep $54,617 $51,762
\nSystem administrator $67,116 $70,025
\nTechnical support manager $50,942 $49,990
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\n— Employees hail from small, mid-size, and large tech companies (VC-funded, privately-held, and public) as well as household brands such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, etc.
\n— Questions were in Yes\/No and multiple-choice format. A total of 27 survey questions were included. Each survey question was initiated sometime between March 2016 and June 2018. Results are as of Aug 18, 2018.<\/p>\n\n
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— Are you satisfied with your work-life balance?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— What are your biggest work distractions?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Have you ever been sexually harassed at work?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Have you ever experienced racism at work?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— How often do you lie to your boss?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Has gender held you back in your career?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Do you talk about your sex life with your coworkers?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Do the political views of your coworkers affect your working relationships?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Have you been verbally abused or severely harassed (non-sexual) by your boss at your current job?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Did you negotiate your salary?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— How much of your paycheck do you save?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Would you feel confident asking your boss for a raise?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— What’s the main reason you stay at your current company?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Who do you feel most loyal to at work?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— How often do you socialize with your coworkers?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Do you have a close friend at work?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Have you ever dated a coworker?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— In your opinion, how important is having fun with your coworkers to the success of your company?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Which of the following soft skills has helped you advance most in your career?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— If you were the boss, what\u2019s the first thing you\u2019d change?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— What\u2019s the worst quality you could have in a boss?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Do you believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the potential risks?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Is cryptocurrency a scam?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
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— Do you believe having kids holds people back in their careers?<\/ol>\n
— Do you believe the #TimesUp movement will result in progress in relations between men and women in the workplace?<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n