IT Salaries 2012: $90,000, 1% raise typical
By: Chris Murphy
Ever since I can remember I have been told that IT jobs reel in the big bucks. After reading over this article, I definitely believe that is in fact true. IT remains a well-paying field, with median total compensation of $90,000 for staffers and $116,000 for managers. A few niche job functions, such as wireless infrastructure ($115,000) and cloud computing ($110,000), reach even higher, but the sample size for those specialties is quite small. With the addition of new management systems, I think there will be more jobs just like those and many talented computer technician.
Median total pay for business analytics managers has climbed 11% since 2010, and 8% for staffers. Companies are drowning in data and looking for business-savvy technologists to help them make sense of it. Among our 23 IT job categories, BI managers rank fourth in total compensation, earning $135,000. BI staffers are more middle of the pack, tied for 13th (with telephony and unified communications staff), earning $95,000. Data integration and data warehousing managers rank sixth in total compensation, at $131,000, while staffers are eighth, at $101,000. Each of the compensations are higher than most other “Average” compensations of other business jobs.
IT pros are reasonably satisfied and secure in their jobs. Sixty-two percent of staff and two-thirds of managers are satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs, nearly identical to the levels of the past five years. There's been a slight rise in job security, with 40% of staffers feeling highly secure, up from 34% in 2010. Just 12% feel insecure in their jobs. Job security is a huge factor in choosing a career. You want to make sure that you won’t be used for 3 years and ditched to the side because the company you work for decided to down-size. Usually most IT jobs aren’t something a company wants to let go because of how technologically inclined many of them are. There aren’t many great computer people out there so for the ones that are, they have job security as long as they stay with their job and don’t give any reason to get fired.
Just another thing to add to this post among the idea of job security is that every company needs some sort of IT specialist. Not only are they wanted within companies but they are needed. Companies that have this need also have a want to accompany it. That want is for the head of IT to be stationed near-bye, almost always within the infrastructure of the companies corporate building which means (for most companies) in America. With a lot of jobs going overseas to foreign countries like India and China, it is important to remember that many companies are keeping the top jobs close to home. No one really wants their company secrets to be kept by a foreign country which is thousands of miles away and has little loyalty to the company. Instead, they keep it in-house and pay more to make sure those secrets are kept.
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