Redmond Magazine's Annual Salary Survey - Median Salary Rises to $71,988
Looks like we're getting paid better. Redmond Magazine's annual salary survey shows that the median salary for all respondants rose this year to $71,988. That's a 3.3% raise from previous year's metrics. Good to know when the federal government is reporting a salary/wealth decrease across the board for all industries.
Even more exciting is the impending rise in demand for IT workers:
Numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor corroborate the evidence. Of the 797,000 jobs available from 2004 through the year 2014, Labor foresees computer support specialist and systems administrator jobs growing 18 percent to 26 percent (source: "Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2007-07 Edition"). An employee shortage in a specialist segment means those entering the job market have a decisive advantage with their first salary negotiation.
The article continues...
Interestingly enough, in a time when I see fewer and fewer people actually taking training, the salaries of trainers are growing the fastest. Maybe my impressions are wrong. Are we still engaging in classroom training?
As workers pile on tenure and get better salaries, the natural career progression often means employees continue to climb the career ladder. This year's survey was a mixed bag, with half of the titles coming up winners. Trainers reported the best result at $68,396-an increase of better than 14 percent over 2007. The other networking titles-networking project lead, systems administrator, help desk support-as well as the Webmaster/developer/producer title saw increases ranging between $2,000 and $5,000.
Management held the top spot as it has in most years past at $87,103. Even though management swept back to the top, respondents who held this title were making less than last year's managers, who claimed $89,603.The programming project lead title experienced a salary nosedive of 7 percent, from $90,000 in 2007 to $84,004 this year, as did database administrator/developer, which shrank by 8 percent, or $6,559, from the 2007 average of $73,377. We expected as much, because the survey this year included many readers of Redmond Developer News, who may have slightly skewed the numbers downward.
How's your salary stack up? Mine's not doing too bad...
See the full piece, which is always worth the read, at:
http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=765
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