Linux Pipeline | IT Salary Survey

Seems Like Old Times Following on the heals of yesterday's Hudson Highland Groups survey which looked at how good IT workers feel about their jobs and where they currently are in corporate America. Dice, Inc has their Salary Survey for last year.

In it Dice reports that the average salary for tech professionals actualy fell last year by 2.6%. The pay for Unix experienced professionals' was at $75,000 on a nation-wide scale. At the lower end of the scale for PC technicians and Help Desk technicians pay fell by 10.4% and 9.5%. I can personally attest to this fact in the Chicago area. Pay for Help Desk positions fell what felt like 15%. To add to that though there does seem to be a rebound for Help Desk pay in certain sectors. Telecommunication companies seem to pay above average and pharamaceutical companies seem to be offering above average pay. It will be interesting to see if the rest of the area follows suit later this year as the economy improves.

One of the differences to remember between the Hudson Highland survey and the Dice survey is that the Hudson Highland survey is a monthly survey and Dice is a annual survey. Although I think either people refer to the Dice survey throughout the first part of the year or they might publish new results every 6 months. I remember a similar survey from Dice last year.

Either way as the economy improves over the next couple of years it will be interesting to see which areas imporves faster.