2010 Salary Survey Highlights IT Woes

CWmike writes "Trapped between flat salaries and ever-increasing workloads, IT professionals are about to explode. That's the top takeaway from Computerworld's 2010 survey of nearly 5,000 IT workers. 'Bonuses and benefits are way down, and workloads and work hours have increased. Meanwhile, salaries are stagnant (rising just a microscopic 0.7% on average), and — not surprisingly — satisfaction is on the wane.' Another finding of note is the shrinking female IT workforce. Have a look-see at how IT fared in your neck of the woods with this smart look-up tool."

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[Spy Handler]

Another finding of note is the shrinking female IT workforce

If you're female there is no reason to go into IT... nursing pays better, comes with better benefits, better hours, way less stress, no bullying from male coworkers, no worries about your job going offshore to Inida, more respect from the general community, just a better future period.

In fact males should also go into nursing, but constantly being made fun of (such as being called Gaylord Focker) might be too much to take for most men. However, it is undeniable that healthcare is the wave of the future in the United States; aging population and an entitlement mentality ("I deserve free healthcare as a Gaea-given right") means the demand for healthcare will grow and grow and never stop growing until the nation is bankrupt. So men should suck it up, go back to school and get a medical degree, and leave the codemonkeying to the Indians.

Re:What?!?

[commodore64_love]

>>>Most of the jobs that actually pay a salary don't give a rat's ass about any F/OSS projects you've worked on.

That's because it's considered a hobby. Also they have no way of measuring how much work you actually did. It's not the same as paid experience where they KNOW you spent 40 hours/52 weeks doing it each year.

I wonder if they had these kinds of surveys in the 1800s or pre-WW2 1900s?

Somehow I can't imagine an engineer sitting in his primitive wood-paneled office and saying, "I wish I made more money," or "This job is not satsifactory." More likely he looked out his window at the distant farms and thought, 'I'm glad I don't have to shovel ____ for a living.'