Research: 2010 IT Salary Survey
For the first time in the 11 years for which InformationWeek has trendable data for its annual U.S. IT Salary Survey, the median raise is 0% for 2010, based on a survey of 20,492 IT professionals. That holds true for IT managers and staffers alike, for both their base salaries and total compensation, which includes bonuses. It holds true for IT consultants and contractors, too. If stock options were the sign of the economic times at the start of the last decade, the salary freeze is the symbol for the start of this one.
The impact of a long, deep recession is obvious in the data:
• 40% of IT pros report a pay freeze, compared with 26% in 2009.
• 15% have had their pay cut, compared with 6% in 2009.
• 29% have had their benefits scaled back, up from 17% in 2009.
• 23% say the economy has not impacted them professionally, compared with 34% in 2009.
IT remains a well-paying profession. For managers, median base salary is $103,000 and total compensation is $111,000. For IT staffers, median base salary is $81,000 and total compensation is $85,000.
However, there has never been one monolithic IT job market, and industries
and skills continue to make a huge difference in a person’s pay. In fact, the survey has some positive signs for the more highly skilled IT pros. This year, 10 IT staff job functions earn $90,000 or more in median total compensation, up from seven last year. Ten IT management job functions earn $120,000 or more in median total compensation, compared with two last year.
Table of Contents
6 Author’s Bio
7 Executive Summary
9 Research Synopsis
11 Raises Crunched
15 IT Pay by Skills
18 Workers Worried, Want Recognition
24 Industry, Location Matter
27 Outsourcing: Settled into a Pattern
30 Conclusion
33 Appendix
About the Author
Chris Murphy is editor of InformationWeek, where he has worked as an editor and writer since 1999. Before joining InformationWeek, he was editor of the Budapest Business Journal, a business weekly in Hungary, and a daily newspaper reporter in Grand Rapids, Mich. Chris holds a BA in Economics and Journalism from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Virginia.
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