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0%: Pay Freeze (Annual Salary Survey)

Murphy, Chris | 03/31/10
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Stagnant pay is easy to spot in our U.S. IT Salary Survey. But pay attention to the consequences: employees worried about their jobs, craving recognition and preparing to leave if opportunity knocks.

No pay raise this year.


Zero.


In 2010, for the first time in the last 11 years of InformationWeek’s annual U.S. IT Salary Survey, the median raise for IT professionals is 0%, according to the 20,492 IT pros who responded between November and January. That flat pay holds true for IT managers and staffers, 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.

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2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects

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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