Rachel Feintzeig:

[In] the frenzied job market of the latest tech boom, product developers frequently get multiple job offers and six-figure starting salaries right out of college.

BBC:

Ayan Qureshi is now a Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant's exam when he was just five years old.

Hal Salzman:

Average wages in the IT industry are the same as those that prevailed when Bill Clinton was president.

Evelyn M. Rusli:

The average salary for a software engineer is about $126,000, up 20% from 2012, according to tech-jobs site Dice. Top engineers' salaries can be double that or more.

Lizzie Widdecombe:

Stephen Bradley had come to think that developers were like social media itself: "Ninety-nine per cent of them suck."

"What kind of price range are we talking about?" Bradley asked.

"Ballpark, for this role you're talking a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars an hour."

In Silicon Valley, the average engineer's salary is around a hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year, according to a recent analysis by the Brookings Institution -- cheap, when compared with the potential profits. Apple makes more than two million dollars in revenue per employee each year.