Systems software engineers design the operating systems and interface systems that allow computers to properly function. As of 2012, the BLS reports that systems software engineers earned an average hourly wage of $49.30 and an average annual salary of $102,550.Half of all systems software engineers working in the United States earned between $37.95 and $59.40 per hour, with the highest-paid 10 percent earning $71.56 or more per hour.ardware engineers employed by software publishers earned more than those in any other industry, an average of $55.73 per hour. Average hourly pay by state ranged from a low of $36 in Oklahoma to a high of $55.95 in Michigan.
The longest unambiguously documented human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875â1997), who died at age 122 years, 164 days.
Born on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, Susannah Mushatt Jones (right) has lived in parts of three centuries, according to Guinness World Records. Jones is the oldest living person at 116. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last month after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the schoolâs Board of Trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.