Education requirements:

Bachelor's degree (minimum)

Work enviroment:

Software engineers/developers work for computer systems design and related services firms or software publishers.
Others work in computer and electronic product manufacturing industries and many telecommute (work away from the office).

Salary:

$90,530 per year
$43.52 per hour

Cited sources:

• http://www.careertech.org/career-clusters/glance/careerclusters.html
• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development
• http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=ii

Link to first page.