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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."
I should forward this story to my boss. Then again since I work ar EDS I'm just happy to be one of the contracts thats not NMCI
500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
I think the norm, at least for people who do billable work, is to get a pay raise based on their billable hours, or get a decent base pay plus bonus based on performance.
Ok, sometimes IT includes programming/development, sometimes IT is maintainance, support, and administration. Which is it? When they say IT salaries are increasing, what do they mean by IT? Can we come up with some more accurate terminology? As a software engineer, I usually am categorized into Engineering, as opposed to IT - but there seems to be no consistancy.
Regarding the US job market for programmers - there seems to be jobs here in the Silicon Valley/SF area, but they just put you through a ringer during the interview process (3-4 interview sessions of 2-3 hours each), and then give you a lowball offer. If you have a specific domain knowledge that is valuable to someone, the situation becomes a lot better. I wouldn't really be interested in relocating, so I have no idea what is going on outside the Bay Area, but I keep getting people asking if I'm interested in BREW/J2ME positions, since very few people actually have experience with that technology. Not that it's a particularly difficult domain to understand/learn.
A lot of companies seem to think that the bad economy means that hiring top notch developers should be cheap and easy. But, in reality, these are not the people that stay unemployed forever. Most of your top talent doesn't stay on the market very long, leaving you to sift through thousands of resumes and hundreds of interviews. At my last company, we got some smart people coming in and not getting the job because they felt they could do better, or that they didn't want to pay much. It was a tiny company, which has less leeway for supporting people who can't do their job well, but I remember a couple people who I thought were really good and my boss decided against them for, I felt, trivial reasons. I think those decisions were justified either consciously or subconsciously by the economy.
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Run a pencil-and-paper RPG campaign with your far-off friends: Gametable!
Stay there for a couple of years, learn one hell of a lot and get a ton of skills. Then leave. Think of it as investing in your future. Learning a lot now so that you can score that big job down the road.
I work for a company that consistently gives 4% a year. Last year I made considerably more with a salary adjustment. Is this not the norm?
This is average salaries, not raises. This is saying that IT people, on average, make a little more this year than last year. It does not say that an individual person's salary increases at that rate. For example, In year 2003 person A makes $50k, person B makes $60k and person C makes $70k. In 2004, A gets a raise to $60k, B gets a raise to $70k and C retires. A new person, D graduates from college and gets a job making $50k. Everyone here got well over 10% in raises, however the average salary did not change
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) introduced a bill to reform the H-1B visa program titled the "Defend the American Dream Act of 2004". His strong letter to the editor of the New Jersey Herald indicates that the bill will be re-introduced in the 2005 Congress. I can't recall the last time I have read a written statement from a public official that was so highly critical of H-1B.
To review the American Dream Act follow these instructions:
1) go to http://thomas.loc.gov
2) enter H.R. 5413 into the search engine
Pascrell's website is at:
http://www.pascrell.house.gov/
Click "Contact Bill" to give them feedback.
Belize is quite beautiful. It has the largest barrier reef in the western hemisphere. The most beautiful parts have hurricane risks, though.
Saying "they speak English in Belize" is oversimplification. Belize has three official languages: English, Spanish, and Garifuna. They are all widely spoken.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Inflation for the year 2004 is given based on the Consumer Price Index from the Labor Department. Excluding energy and food, it was 2.2%. Housing alone was listed at 2.5% for the year and is included in the reported 2.2%. Energy is what caused the spike that averages overall inflation to 3.3% - alone it makes up for a 16.6% increase. With overall salaries (in all industries combined) making for only a 0.5% increase, most of us are paying more this year than last - and not earning enough to make up the difference. (Apologies in advance to those who aren't earning anything.)
I was taking one day at a time, but then several days got together and ambushed me. (from a Rhymes with Orange comic)
Combine that graph with this one (the one under "Who Pays Income Taxes?") and you'll see why I'm still not convinced.
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