And the IRS will never ask you to make a payment by credit card, debit card or prepaid card. If you receive one of these calls, the attorney general recommends that you should hang up immediately and report the scam to the IRS. The number to report a possible scam to the IRS is 800-829-1040.
To move this back from games, here in New York, an average senior C++ programmer in finance gets anywhere between 150 and 250k/yr, and companies that aren't doing finance have to match the salaries or lose the people. it's no picnic, though, long hours doesn't even begin to describe it.
Average Pay. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer programmers earned an average of $78,260 per year in 2012. This is the equivalent of $6,521 per month. Computer programmers at the median, or midpoint, salary range reported salaries of $74,280, or about $7,004 per month. The bureau also reported that the highest-paid 10 percent of programmers made $117,890 or more per year and $9,824 or more per month.