High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay

An anonymous reader writes "Programmers who design and code algorithms for investment banking are unhappy with their salaries. Many of them receive a low 6-figure salary whereas their bosses mdash; who manipulate these algorithms and execute the trades mdash; often earn millions. One such anonymous programmer points out that he was paid $150,000 per year, whereas the software he wrote was generating $100,000 per day."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F30%2F1223224%2FHigh-Frequency-Programmers-Revolt-Over-Pay" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=High-Frequency+Programmers+Revolt+Over+Pay%3A+http%3A%2 F%2Fbit.ly%2Fb1lwi3" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/30/1223224/High-Frequency-Programmers-Revolt-Over-Pay?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wqIxLFccuZIFOFyMycVyYsKc2lQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wqIxLFccuZIFOFyMycVyYsKc2lQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wqIxLFccuZIFOFyMycVyYsKc2lQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wqIxLFccuZIFOFyMycVyYsKc2lQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/0wOMAR4EENg" height="1" width="1"/

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