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It Salary Survey 2013: 11 Career Insights
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Information technology (IT) professionals earn a median salary of $90,000 with managers earning $120,000, according to the 2013 InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey. However, the survey also found that compensation varies substantially by skill and industry. For example, employees focused on enterprise application integration earn a median salary of $110,000, while those in general IT earn $73,000, and those on the help desk earn $55,000.
Specialty fields such as cloud computing, Web security, and mobile earn higher median salaries of $130,000, $118,000, and $111,000, respectively. The survey also found that analytics and business intelligence professionals have a median income of $93,000, while analytics and business intelligence managers have a median compensation of $132,000.
IT accounted for 13 percent of the 88,000 net new jobs in the U.S. economy in March, according to a Foote Partners analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which also found that monthly IT job growth this year is 53 percent ahead of last year's pace. IT professionals cited pay, job stability, and flexible work schedules as the three most appealing factors about their jobs. The survey also found that about 50 percent of IT professionals think outsourcing has led to fewer IT jobs.
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