[JavaBrewer]

The last one looked reasonable. {edit} oops, read further and missed the 10yr exp. The job desc. is way too fine grained, I'm skeptical of that one. {/edit} You had one in there for a CNC machinst/programmer that was $10-$17/hr. I did that type of work in the early 80's on a Fanuc machine. These guys are skilled but not exactly the degreed professionals we were referring to. Some of my co-workers only had high school diplomas. Back then I made $8.00/hr but had worked there for 4 years already.

I went to Monster and did a search for "java" in California-San Diego CA and got back 96 hits. Some jobs were approaching $80-$90K with 5-10 years experience. I last checked this site about 8 months ago and got about 1/3 that many hits. More queries "software" = 800 hits, "C++" = 94 hits, "unix" = 105 hits.

The same search (java) in Tampa FL yielded 31 hits - but none that I looked at included salary.