'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.
Software Programmer Salary. The average pay for a Software Programmer is $58,001 per year. People in this job generally don't have more than 20 years' experience. $38,667 - $91,999.
Software developers, also called software engineers, design computer programs. This is one of the highest-paying fields for computer science graduates. As of 2012, software developers with a B.S. in computer science reported an average starting salary of $65,100, according to the NACE. According to the BLS, systems software developers earned an average of $102,550 per year in 2012, while applications software developers earned an average of $93,280 per year.