Biggest Paychecks: Wall Street, San Francisco

摘要

Among industries, Wall Street IT compensation sits even more firmly on top than in recent years. Median manager compensation in the securities and investments sector comes in at $175,000, 20% of it from bonuses, and a typical IT staffer in that sector makes $112,000. Biotech managers, who briefly held the No. 1 IT compensation spot in 2009 while banking took its one-year bonus breather, now typically pull in 18% less than securities and investment managers. (Biotech's now No. 3, at $142,000.) IT pros in state and local government, nonprofits, and education get paid the least. The median federal government IT staffer makes 33% more than a state staffer, ranking 10th out of 29 industries.