'Dear Abby' advice columnist dies at age 94. MINNEAPOLIS â Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running Dear Abby advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94.
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This was higher than the mean wages for applications engineers and for programmers. Most system software engineers worked for computer systems design to earn $47.66 per hour or $99,140 per year. Their highest wages were in other schools, such as foreign language institutes.