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IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005
halfacrayon writes "According to Robert Half Technology 2005 Salary Guide, average base pay for IT professionals overall will rise 0.5% in 2005. Data security analysts will command the highest salary (up to $93K), while system auditors will enjoy the highest increase compared to 2004 rates (5.1%). IT instructors are holding the bottom spot in terms of gross revenues (salary could go as low as $43,250) and business systems analysts will barely notice the increase of 1.9% that they should expect in 2005."
Unfortunatly inflation is around 2%, so you are all going to get a little poorer.
The national debt
;) ) and if everyone goes expatriate, the tax benefits are totally worth it.
The interest we will have to pay on the national debt
Inflation
So basically you can think of an average 0.5% growth as your petty little cost of living increase. Enjoy the Bush tax cut while you can because as he spends like a crackwhore with a stolen credit card, each person's "share" of the national debt will blossum. that means a bigger budget every year and eventually taxes will have to go up big time to keep the leviathan from choking on its own excess.
How about this. Why don't a bunch of IT companies set up shop in Costa Rica and pay their employees to move there? The advantages are enormous. Cheap cost of business, you're close to America, exotic location for the young employees (and exotic women for the young geek men
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WHAT ! Didn't you receive the $200 Bush tax rebate/payoff that changed lives and allows everyone to become a homeowner ?
I think I would like to survey IT salaries of other universes at this point. Maybe in another universe the damned Brits never touched India, and they instead speak vietnamese in reverse or whatnot.
Table-ized A.I.
What about un-employed hackers?
five percent of zero is still zero.
Damn you Bush for making me work for a living.
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Peace.
So some lucky bastard brought up the average with a whopping 1% increase.
there's been no COLA of any sort for a few years
Did you at least get Mountain Dew???
It's "no one," not "noone." Who the hell is noone anyway?
for the 73 IT people left in the United States
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I've developed the opinion that realtors, mostly those in cities, are a scam operation. On one transaction, I figured our realtor was getting well over 100 dollars an hour to put out a sign, make an MLS entry, and a color brochure. The house basically sold itself, as most in that area did.
Just like charging $100 an hour to, say, fix someone's computer is a scam? If it's so easy, why didn't you do it yourself?