President Hoover did increase federal spending on public works as a way of trying to lessen unemployment. $700 million on such projects in 1931 was unprecedentedly high. However, he grew more hostile with the passage of time believing a huge work relief program might be as demoralizing as a dole.
New York Software Engineers can expect to earn an average of $94K annually. Total cash compensation to Software Engineers in New York, N.Y. approaches anywhere from $62K on the lower end to $136K on the higher end; in exceptional cases, this can include more than $20K from bonuses and upwards of $17K from profit sharing.
The average salary for a computer programmer with an associate degree was $40,000 as of 2013, according to the job site Simply Hired. The $40,000 salary falls in the lower 10 percent of what all computer programmers earned as of May 2012, according to the BLS -- less than $42,850 per year.