2014 US IT Salary Survey

2014 US IT Salary Survey: 10 InformationWeek surveyed 11,662 IT pros across 30 industries about their pay, benefits, job satisfaction, outsourcing, and more. STATS Find all our coverage at www.informationweek.com/it-salary-survey.asp IT Pays Well IT pros make median total Not All Industries $$ compensation of $92,000 for staffers and $120,000 for managers. Are Equal me Base salaries are III 2x $88,000 for staffers and $112,000 for managers. Wall Street IT pros make nearly twice what their counterparts in K-12 education earn. Of course, the 3 Specialization Pays stress level is a factor. Five IT staff titles command median salaries of $100,000 or more: architect (the highest, at $120,000), system architect, software engineer, project leader, and systems programmer. The "general IT" title earns median compensation of $65,000 – help desk, just $50,000. Outsourcing Is 4 Bad on a Macro, IT Pros Aren't Big 5 Job Hoppers Not Micro, Level 66% 73% of staff and % of IT staffers blame 56% outsourcing for fewer IT of managers jobs overall, have had just one or two 2/3 employers in the past 10 years. say it has had zero impact on On a related note, just 1 in 10 IT pros feels insecure at their jobs. their career paths. We're Pretty Happy More 6U are satisfied or very satisfied with 60% their jobs overall vs. less than 15% than who say they're dissatisfied. Faith in IT Careers Has Spiked Everyone's Different 8 We listed 24 job satisfaction drivers and asked which 7 are 48% of staffers say an most important. IT career is as promising as The result? it was five years ago, a 15-point There's no one-size-fits-all approach to keeping employees happy. jump from 2011. For managers, For their No. 1 picks, 48% think it's as staffers cite base pay, 55% promising, also a 15-point increase. 46% while managers want their opinion and knowledge valued. A Gender Gap Remains 11% Among our nearly 12,000 respondents, 85% of staff and 87% of managers 16 STAFF MANAGERS Male staffers make about 16% more in total compensation than females; male managers make about 11% more. are men. 10 Employers are Showing Us the Money bo got raises compared with 2% whose pay was cut and 13% whose pay stayed the same. Data: InformationWeek 2014 US IT Salary Survey of 5,945 IT staffers and 5,717 IT managers. InformationWeek %24