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."

Comments

Re:Screwy economics

[shawn(at)fsu]

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

Re:US Job Market

[Iffy Bonzoolie]

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.

-If