Somber Janco Analysis Finds Modest Recovery in IT Pay
Posting from the ITBusinessEdge blog
While Gartner and IDC recently raised their projections for IT spending this year, a salary survey by Janco Associates finds penny-pinching still rules the day, though layoffs seem to have tapered off.
The data, which has been updated through June, found 55,500 IT jobs added in the United States since January.
In a story about worries that the economy could torpedo IT spending, Computerworld quotes Victor Janulaitis, Janco's CEO, saying:
Right now there is feeling amongst a number of organizations that we are going to go into a second dip of a recession, and that second dip could be deeper than the current dip.
A slightly more upbeat CompTIA report issued earlier today found midsize businesses most likely to add IT staff. And as a percentage, 1.44 percent, those staff salaries grew the most in the Janco Associates report, but they started lower. They rose from $61,047 to $61,924. The mean for all IT positions at midsize firms grew by 0.43 percent from $73,934 to $74,253. For large organizations, median pay rose from $81,493 to $82,273.
The total mean compensation for all IT pros in 73 job categories that range from CIO to data entry operator grew by just 0.35 percent to $77,873 from $77,604. This puts pay back at the January 2008 level, before the recession.
The job market for CIOs is basically non-existent at the moment, according to the report. It says that if companies were displeased with their CIOs, they've already replaced them, and that those still on the job find the current economy too iffy to make a move. It puts mean compensation for CIOs in large enterprises at $184,681 (up 1.73 percent) and $163,106 (an increase of 0.49 percent) in mid-sized enterprises. Meanwhile, middle managers — some of the most important folks around, according to this study — and non-line IT executives continue to feel a salary crunch.
The report also found companies continue to reduce the benefits offered to IT pros. Though they still offer health insurance, generally employees are footing more of the bill. But it found flexible hours and work schedules becoming more common.
It's no surprise that the use of contractors and part-timers is on the rise, especially those focused on particular critical projects. It lists these as the most in-demand skills:
- Project management – especially large projects with short time frame for delivery
- Security – focused on mandated compliance issues
- Network administration – wireless and cloud administration
- Virtualization (cloud) – new applications and management of IT infrastructure
- Business and operational analysis – focused on business change
- Productivity improvement analysis – metrics and operational analysis
- Web 2.0
- Database management
- System administration
- Desktop support
Standard Edition IT Hiring Kit
IT Salary Survey - The salary survey draws on data
collected throughout the year via extensive internet-based survey
instruments and completed survey forms from businesses throughout the
United States and Canada. The survey data reflects IT salaries in 78
major cities in the United States as well as 23 cities in Canada.
Summary data is provided in both the PDF document and a separate Excel
Spreadsheet. - Interview and Hiring Guide - Anyone conducting an interview should be aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees. This has all of the tools that you need to keep the process objective and key the enterprise out of court.
- Salary Survey Job Descriptions (PDF) The job descriptions are provided as an indexed PDF document for all of the positions surveyed. The PDF file has a copyright date of 2011 and can be viewed and printed.
Silver Edition IT Hiring Kit
- IT Salary Survey - The salary survey draws on data
collected throughout the year via extensive internet-based survey
instruments and completed survey forms from businesses throughout the
United States and Canada. The survey data reflects IT salaries in 78
major cities in the United States as well as 23 cities in Canada.
Summary data is provided in both the PDF document and a separate Excel
Spreadsheet.
- Interview and Hiring Guide - Anyone conducting an interview should be aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees. This has all of the tools that you need to keep the process objective and key the enterprise out of court.
- Salary Survey Job Descriptions (WORD & PDF) The job descriptions are provided as individual WORD (.docx) and PDF files. The job descriptions have a copyright date of 2011.
Gold Edition IT Hiring Kit
- IT Salary Survey - The salary survey draws on data
collected throughout the year via extensive internet-based survey
instruments and completed survey forms from businesses throughout the
United States and Canada. The survey data reflects IT salaries in 78
major cities in the United States as well as 23 cities in Canada.
Summary data is provided in both the PDF document and a separate Excel
Spreadsheet.
- Interview and Hiring Guide - Anyone conducting an interview should be aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees. This has all of the tools that you need to keep the process objective and key the enterprise out of court.
- Salary Survey Job Descriptions (WORD & PDF) The job descriptions are provided as an indexed PDF document for all of the positions surveyed. The PDF file has a copyright date of 2011 and can be viewed and printed.
- Internet and IT Job Descriptions (WORD) The 243 job descriptions have been extracted from Janco's Internet IT and Position Descriptions HandiGuide®. Each job description has a copyright date of 2011and comes in WORD 2007 format using long file names.
- IT Salary Survey - The salary survey draws on data
collected throughout the year via extensive internet-based survey
instruments and completed survey forms from businesses throughout the
United States and Canada. The survey data reflects IT salaries in 78
major cities in the United States as well as 23 cities in Canada.
Summary data is provided in both the PDF document and a separate Excel
Spreadsheet.
- Interview and Hiring Guide - Anyone conducting an interview should be aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees. This has all of the tools that you need to keep the process objective and key the enterprise out of court.
- Salary Survey Job Descriptions (WORD & PDF) The job descriptions are provided as an indexed PDF document for all of the positions surveyed. The PDF file has a copyright date of 2011 and can be viewed and printed.
- Internet and IT Job Descriptions
(WORD) The 243 job descriptions
have been extracted from Janco's Internet IT and Position Descriptions
HandiGuide®.
Each job description has a copyright date of 2011and comes in WORD 2007 format using long file names.
- Internet and IT Positions Description
HandiGuide® (PDF) The Internet and IT Position Descriptions
HandiGuide® contains over 650 pages; which includes sample
organization charts, a job progression matrix, and 243 job
descriptions. The book also addresses Fair Labor Standards and the
ADA. Also included are tools to help you expand, evaluate and define
your enterprise's unique additional required. Those tools include:
- Job Evaluation Questionnaire
- Position Description Questionnaire
- Job Progression Matrix (Job Family Classifications)
