Long,Hard Road

摘要

To understand the journey business technology pros have been on for the past decade, you need to look at the stats, and also the stories. The stats, gleaned from the InformationWeek Analytics 2011 U.S. IT Salary Survey, show that IT remains a well-paying profession: IT managers make a median total cash compensation of $115,000 and staffers make $87,000, our survey of more than 18,000 IT pros finds. Salaries vary greatly by specialty, however, with high-skill staffers in system architecture, data management, and enterprise application integration typically making six figures, while help desk staffers make around $55,000. For all IT pros, raises have been hard to come by in recent years. Last year's pay freezes have given way to small increases-the median total compensation raise for IT staffers is just 0.9% this year, 1.9% for managers.