BY PRACHI BHARDWAJ
APPS AREN’T GOING AWAY anytime soon—andneither are the jobs creating them.Application developers—the people responsiblefor building and updating computer and mobileapps—make a median salary of $101,790 a year, andfor the next five to seven years they’re going to bemore in demand than any other American workermaking a six-figure salary.
The U.S. will be adding 255,140 app developers tothe job market between 2016 and 2026, accordingto occupational forecasting website ProjectionsCentral. That’s about 26,000 new openings for appdevelopers every year, in addition to the estimated60,170 positions becoming available annually toreplace current app developers.