| I've been a QA engineer for several years (With my previous employeer and with current), and am making well over 70k in super-cheap-to-live Texas.
QA is not in high demand. However, QA with extensive knowledge of VS2005/8 source-level debug, or live-debugging via windbg, etc etc is in super high demand at least down here. Also, a QA engineer or tester who is creative and will do things like write "simple" programs to automate stuff, or streamline processes in a QA environment in looked highly upon. Really not your run of the mill QA.
The lowest paid QA positions here with just half of those requirements pay around $18-$20 an hour. Ones like mine where source-level debugging, and root cause analysis of defects are expected, you can expect 55-70k+ a year depending on how well you impress. |