IT Paychecks Rise In 2004 After Three-Year Slide

Linux Pipeline has an article from Foote Partners about IT paychecks. It appears that pay actually rose last year in the IT industry. For certified skills pay rose on average by 4% while noncertified skills pay rose by 1%.

Some of the reasons for the rise in pay were increased competition for IT talent and concerns about staff retention.

I've seen it talked about in other articles and it seems the demand for netowrking skills will increase for some time to come. Remember Linux is a networking OS. Having a mix of networking, Cisco and Linux will help you prepare for some good opportunities in the future.