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Defining The Business Value Of Technology
April 26, 1999
Salary Survey ResultsThe following results from our Salary Survey appear exclusively online
| Management Salary Ranges By Management Function | |||
| What is your current base annual pay? | |||
| Low | Medium | High | |
| Application development | $68,000 | $80,000 | $95,000 |
| Database analysis & development | $56,000 | $71,000 | $84,000 |
| Data center management | $52,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Data mining, warehousing | $62,000 | $80,000 | $95,000 |
| Enterprise resource planning | $63,000 | $77,000 | $95,000 |
| General IT management | $55,000 | $71,000 | $93,000 |
| Help desk, IT support | $45,000 | $60,000 | $72,000 |
| Internet | $52,000 | $70,000 | $87,000 |
| Networking | $50,000 | $65,000 | $80,000 |
| Security | $61,000 | $77,000 | $90,000 |
| Telecom, call center | $50,000 | $65,000 | $78,000 |
| Training | $44,000 | $57,000 | $74,000 |
| Year 2000 | $70,000 | $83,000 | $100,000 |
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Note: Low is salary at 25th percentile; medium is median; high is 75th percentile. Base: 9,980 IT managers. DATA: INFORMATIONWEEK RESEARCH SALARY SURVEY OF 21,398 IT PROFESSIONALS | |||
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Staff Salaries By Function What is your current base annual pay? | |||
| Low | Medium | High | |
| Application development | $50,000 | $60,000 | $72,000 |
| Database analyis & development | $48,000 | $60,000 | $72,000 |
| Data center management | $48,000 | $58,000 | $70,000 |
| Data mining, warehousing | $49,000 | $62,000 | $73,000 |
| Enterprise resource planning | $54,000 | $65,000 | $75,000 |
| Groupware, E-mail | $46,000 | $55,000 | $65,000 |
| Help desk, IT support | $34,000 | $42,000 | $53,000 |
| Internet | $40,000 | $52,000 | $68,000 |
| Networking | $42,000 | $52,000 | $65,000 |
| Telecom, call center | $41,000 | $52,000 | $62,000 |
| Training | $38,000 | $49,000 | $60,000 |
| Year 2000 | $49,000 | $62,000 | $75,000 |
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Note: Low means salary at 25th percentile; medium at the median; high at the 75th
percentile. DATA: INFORMATIONWEEK RESEARCH SALARY SURVEY OF 21, 398 IT PROFESSIONALS | |||
| Changes In Staff Salaries | |||
| This year | Last year | Change | |
| Senior architect | $80,000 | $73,000 | 9.6% |
| Senior systems architect | $75,000 | $70,000 | 7.1% |
| Senior engineer | $69,000 | $63,000 | 9.5% |
| Senior systems programmer | $65,000 | $60,000 | 8.3% |
| Senior programmer | $64,000 | $58,000 | 10.3% |
| Senior systems analyst | $60,000 | $56,000 | 7.1% |
| Senior analyst | $60,000 | $55,000 | 9.1% |
| Senior specialist | $59,000 | $55,000 | 7.3% |
| Senior systems administrator | $55,000 | $51,000 | 7.8% |
| Senior Webmaster | $54,000 | $48,000 | 12.5% |
| Staff engineer | $53,000 | $48,000 | 10.4% |
| Systems programmer | $50,000 | $45,000 | 11.1% |
| Systems analyst | $50,000 | $45,000 | 11.1% |
| Staff analyst | $47,000 | $43,000 | 9.3% |
| Staff programmer | $47,000 | $43,000 | 9.3% |
| Systems administrator | $44,000 | $40,000 | 10.0% |
| Webmaster | $43,000 | $39,000 | 10.3% |
| Staff specialist | $42,000 | $38,000 | 10.5% |
| DATA: INFORMATIONWEEK RESEARCH SALARY SURVEY OF 21, 398 IT PROFESSIONALS | |||
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