Starting salaries at Seattle tech companies A degree in tech will pay more than flipping burgers

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Software engineer: $102,055 Product manager: (range) $115,000 -- $123,000 Product consultant: $36,412 (but with extra compensation that could tick that well above $100k) Data analyst: (range) $45,000 -- $48,000 Starting salary in Seattle for -- less Tableau Software



Software engineer: $102,055 Product manager: (range) $115,000 -- $123,000 Product consultant: $36,412 (but with extra compensation that could tick that well above Starting salary in Seattle for -- ... more Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Starting salaries at Seattle tech companies 1 / 23 Back to Gallery

If you're young enough to wonder about what you should study in college, put "computer science" down on that interest slip and move on.

Those with degrees in the tech fields seem to get paid pretty well and the job security is through the roof.

But just how much?

We looked through Glassdoor.com's average starting salaries for Seattle tech companies and came up with some numbers that might surprise some and might make some ask why they didn't earn different degrees.

For software engineers, the average overall salary in Seattle is $108,240, more than $10,000 greater than the national average.

The numbers vary pretty widely, but by and large they come in above six figures.

Click through the slideshow above to see how the jobs rank at various Seattle tech companies.

Note: We came up with the starting salaries based on the average salary for those with less than one year of experience in Glassdoor's database. In some cases, there were too few salaries reported to come up with specific numbers, so we used a range and specified any other pertinent details.