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Top 10 salary surveys |
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For: Jul 19 - 26 2000 |
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InformationWeek's 2000 salary survey |
| This was one of only a few surveys we could find with salary data for 2000. Most of the surveys we found were taken in 1999. InformationWeek’s salary survey is a little hard to navigate, but it’s loaded with useful information. For example, you’ll learn just how happy people are with their jobs. And they’re pretty satisfied, believe it or not. Out of the 17,000 IT professionals who responded to the salary survey, more than half of them say they're satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs. Almost two-thirds of managers feel the same way. As for satisfaction with pay, 45% of staff and 54% of managers are satisfied or very satisfied with their pay. On the flip side, one quarter of staff respondents and almost one-fifth of managers are dissatisfied with their pay. InformationWeek provides an article detailing the results of the survey, and throughout this piece there are charts with salary information. One very helpful feature you’ll find is an IT Salary Advisor link. Here, you’ll be able to plug in your own salary and see how it rates with the salary respondents. http://salaryadvisor.informationweek.com/ibi_html/iwsal00/ |
| URL: http://www.informationweek.com/783/salary.htm |
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Infoworld's 1999 compensation survey |
| The navigability of this site is a plus. You get right up front links to different parts of the survey results: bonuses, average salaries, raises and work hours. The overall findings from the survey indicate that average salaries for IT professionals who focus on both business and technology are higher than the average salaries for IT pros at the same level who focus primarily on technology. For senior managers who focus on both business and technology, average salaries were 8.8 % more than the average for those who focus primarily on technology; for middle managers, the difference was 6.8 %. According to the survey, even at the staff level, employees receive more money when they focus on business as well as technology. They earned an average 1.3 % more than employees who focus primarily on technology. If you want to contribute to Infoworld’s 2000 salary survey results, you can fill out a survey at http://www.rresults.com/120019/. It’s not clear when the results will be available. |
| URL: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayCareers.pl?/990621caIntro.htm |
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Network World's 1999 salary survey |
| Networking professionals are obviously the focus for Network World’s salary survey. Here are some highlights: The results from this survey show significant salary increases of 18% from 1998 to 1999; and total pay went from an overall average of $63,050 in 1998 to almost $75,000 in 1999, according to estimates of bonuses, stock options and additional pay. One very helpful feature: Network World offers a salary calculator that’s more sophisticated than some of the other salary comparison tools offered on other sites. You can enter more detailed information about yourself – degree, area of the country where you work, years in the industry, and number of employees – to find out what you should be making. http://www.nwfusion.com/you/salarycalc.html |
| URL: http://www.nwfusion.com/you/salary.html |
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SANS Institute 1999 salary survey |
| The System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS) Salary Survey is a great survey. The survey results provide very detailed data presented in a useful format. One downer: It’s just a little more difficult to access than the other surveys on our list. First, you have to register to receive your copy of the survey by return e-mail. This also signs you up to join the SANS NewsBites mailing list, which may or may not be a drawback. Either way, this salary survey report is chock-full of charts with detailed data based on the responses of 11,064 system, network, and security administrators across a wide-range of industries. Interesting to note is that the average salary increase reported was 11.47%, which is higher than the previous year. The job titles covered by the survey are database administrator, network administrator, security administrator, security auditor, security consultant and system administrator. And the depth of information is quite impressive: You’ll find salary increase information by gender, salary information by experience, salary and increase by OS type, average salary by gender and industry, just to name a few. |
| URL: http://www.sans.org/sal99.htm |
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Computerworld’s 1999 fall salary survey |
| All the surveys on our list show pay increases, including this one. However, the data here shows a slow down in salary hikes. When reading through this data, it’s important to keep in mind that the data is a year old now. According to Computerworld’s salary survey results, IT managers report giving more traditional increases, between 4% and 5%, to their IT staff, with a few exceptions. The largest average salary increases were reported in IT consulting (9.4%), IT outsourcing (8.5%), construction (8.7%), computer hardware (7.7%) and media services (7.4%). Computerworld also provides data about bonuses. Webmasters receive average sign on bonuses of $10,000, and network analysts receive $8,000 average sign on bonuses. You’ll also find charts with salary data by location, industry and job title. This can help you determine if you will get paid more for your skill set if you work in a specific industry or a certain area in the country. http://www.computerworld.com/computerworld/records/images/pdf/990906salary.pdf |
| URL: http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV63_STO42779,00.html |
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CRN's solution provider survey |
| This survey is quite a bit different than the others here in that it focuses on compensation for IT jobs in vendor companies. And there’s good news for these professionals: According to this survey, compensation increased significantly. The data gathered from the survey is for 1999. The median value of total compensation - salary, bonus and commission - rose 9.1 in 1991 to reached $60,000. One emphasis of the survey is the importance of certification. The results show that salaries do indeed rise with certifications. Some of the certifications covered are MSCE, CNE and MCP. The survey data is based on the responses of 1,014 solution provider personnel in three categories: managers, salespeople and technical staff. These three main categories are broken down further into more specific titles. The results from the survey are presented in several different articles with charts included in the copy. CRN also offers the ability to search its database for salary information by categories such as job title, region and certification, to name a few. There are also articles on the executive salary survey. It’s also possible to search a database to find out how much 500 top executives get paid. |
| URL: http://www.crn.com/sections/y2k/special/ssurvey/ssurvey.asp?ArticleID=16755 |
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The Contract Professional/dice.com 2000 rate survey |
| Contractors and consultants are apparently laughing their way to the bank, according to this survey jointly produced by the Contract Professional and dice.com. They’re making more money than the average IT professional and work fewer hours on average per week. The survey gathered information about both contract and full-time employees. More than 15,000 IT workers filled out the survey. Of that number, 4,762 were IT contractors. Contract Professional includes a brief description of the survey and provides a number of charts. The charts offer information about the gender split in the profession, annual incomes, hours billed, top industries and others. Dice.com also lists results on its site at http://jobsearch.dice.com/surveys/results1999/. In addition to the charts, dice.com provides a query tool where you can search for rates by location, experience and skill level. This is a great tool for finding out about average rates for your skill level and in your location. |
| URL: http://www.cpuniverse.com/jobs/ratesurvey.shtml |
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Information technology compensation study - 2000 mid year |
| Bonanza! This salary survey from Positive Support Review, Inc., a management consulting firm, found major boosts in pay for some professionals. For example, the salary increase for a VP of technical services is $241,666, which is up 86.53%. However, it is not clear how much of this has to do with bonuses. The salary data is for IT professionals in mid- to large-size companies. This information was compiled between January 2000 and May 2000, based on responses from businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada. The number of respondents is not included. There are also charts that graph compensation based on title and company size. This is a PDF file, so Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. |
| URL: http://www.psrinc.com/SampleCharts.pdf |
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Computerjobs.com salary99 report |
| The results from this salary survey don’t provide a lot of information. For example, the charts for average salaries by region only provide one average salary per city. However, the site provides some unique breakouts, like listing the top 10 job positions and the top salaries by state. There are salary satisfaction percentages, which are based on pay. The survey also offers information about salaries based on certifications. But, they only cover a handful of certifications. They would do well to beef that up in the next round. This site provides good general numbers, but its weakness is that there is no way to dig down into more detailed figures. |
| URL: http://www.computerjobs.com/salary99/index.cfm |
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Information technology 2000 salary survey |
| This salary survey comes from a web-based staffing firm that specializes in several areas, one of which is IT. Unlike the salary surveys from IT-focused, this one is a bit self-promotional. K-force.com calls it “an invaluable resource.” Despite the introductory accolades and a few marketing plugs throughout the survey, K-force.com provides useful data. After providing some general information on hot IT technologies, the survey offers salary data by title and region of the country, covering job titles such in systems development, Internet, business systems and management. The survey also provides a description of the job titles that are listed. The data is based on information gathered from Kforce.com’s database and recruiters. This is a PDF file, so Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. |
| URL: http://www.kforce.com/kforce/ssit.pdf |
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