software Engineer vs Business Analyst

JesonRulez

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  • Jul 17, 2013
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    Depending on the company machan. Usually SE gets higher salary in the same company compared to the BA. (With same experience level). But some companies keeps same salary scale for both.
     

    Tom Riddle

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    It depends on the company

    However normally SEs get paid more (I think this is mainly because companies are fighting each other to recruit and retain the best SEs - SEs have many options to choose from. )

    Since there aren't many companies that employ BAs (and even the ones that do don't hire that many) people who work as BAs have a much lesser number of options available to them. Lesser demand across the industry -> lesser salary (though generally not by a huge amount)

    Also a factor, though maybe to a lesser degree is that becoming a BA does not require that much of technical skill so companies have many people out of which they can choose from.


    PS - you shouldn't be making career decisions based on solely on salary scales though, if that's what you are trying to do here :)
     
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    Jeffa

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    It depends on the company

    However normally SEs get paid more (I think this is mainly because companies are fighting each other to recruit and retain the best SEs - SEs have many options to choose from. )

    Since there aren't many companies that employ BAs (and even the ones that do don't hire that many) people who work as BAs have a much lesser number of options available to them. Lesser demand across the industry -> lesser salary (though generally not by a huge amount)

    Also a factor, though maybe to a lesser degree is that becoming a BA does not require that much of technical skill so companies have many people out of which they can choose from.


    PS - you shouldn't be making career decisions based on solely on salary scales though, if that's what you are trying to do here :)
    Thanx. I just need to clear the facts