Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry

dipfan writes "At last an explanation why you can't find a job: a report in the Washington Post says there were more than 500,000 tech jobs shed in the US during the last year, and (for the first time in several years) average IT workers pay is down by 11 percent - down from $71,000 to $63,000. There is some good news on the horizon - the survey of employers by the Information Technology Association of America says that more than a million IT jobs are going to be created in the coming year, taking employment back to pre-2001 levels."

Comments

Re:Hard to believe

[xtremex]

How can we increase jobs when we have over 1 MILLION third-world immigrants per year??? 1 million. Does anyone realize the population explosion that is occuring? and will occur within the next few years? The US tries to save the third world. However, there are 800 MILLION third worlders. The 1 million we take in a year doesnt even leave a dent. I am NOT against immigration. I'm against MASS immigration. What happened to the 200,000 per year we used to have the past 50 years? When we needed immigrants? Pollution, Jobs, Traffic, are some of the MANY things that get affected by mass immigration. If they can add jobs, where are they getting them from? Are they going to bring all the companies that went to Mexico because of NAFTA? I don't think so

Re:ITAA has been telling lies for a long time

[GigsVT]

essentially cheap slave labor. They are hired into jobs the employers claim require extended skills, and paid only the average programmer salary (not the near double amounts such skills would normally draw) because the H-1B law only requires the average to be paid based on all programmers (not specifically those with the required skills).

My Romanian friend that I talk to every now and then would see things a little differently. He works a full time IT job for $6500 a year. That's not a typo.

Cisco, firewalls, the works, he is a full network admin. Living expenses aren't too much lower either, an apartment is still $250-300 a month. He would LOVE to come here to work for your "slave wages".

So when you try to look like you are helping the "oppressed foreigners", it may work for ignorant american citizens, but the ones that know what it is like in much of the world can see right through you. You just want to protect your own job, end of story.