When asked who is leading the software and internet industry, most would tend to say Microsoft. However, CareerBliss, a career resource website, thinks differently after gathering facts (such as the pay ranges at Microsoft) from real employees in this industry. Microsoft excels at many things and is still considered one of the best companies to work for in the world, let alone the software and internet industry. However, they are still suffering in certain categories to the hands of their competitors. For example, when it comes to compensating your employees well, Sun Microsystems is killing the competition with an average salary of $100,000 to its employees. Meanwhile, Microsoft is in second with an $85,000 salary, IBM is in third with an $80,000 salary, and finally Google is in last with a weak $74,000 yearly salary. These are the top four companies in the software industry. If you take into account every company in this industry, the average salary is only $56K per year.