August 20, 2007
Data mining/data warehouse professionals are among the highest paid IT managers and staffers, according to the 2007 InformationWeek IT Salary Survey. Based on information collected from more than 7,000 IT workers, the survey shows that median base salaries (not including bonuses) for IT workers in 2007 edged upwards for the first time in several years, but specialty, gender, age, and location made a big difference in earnings.
You can scan the highlights of the IT Salary Survey or download the full report (it's free at the site I've linked to).
Among managers, data mining/warehouse specialists pulled in the third highest base salaries (after Web infrastructure and ERP). Application development came in fourth, and database analysis & development ranked eighth. Security specialists ranked ninth.
For non-managerial staff, data mining/warehouse is the second-highest specialty for base pay (behind enterprise application integration); application development and database analysis & development landed at fifth and sixth, respectively. Security followed in seventh.
Not surprisingly, IT pros in the notoriously high cost of living cities (San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston) grab the highest pay. More surprisingly, workers under 25 saw median salaries edge lower. Men out-earned women by 15 percent.
What's your take on the gender-gap in IT salaries? What about the dip for the youngest workers, while everyone else is seeing a rise? With all the hand-wringing about the "graying" of certain segments of the IT workforce, the dip in salaries for the up and comers surprised me.
Share your thoughts on the study below.
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