Are you paying too much or too little to your information
technology staff? Are you earning what you're worth? Whether employer or
employee, it is important to know what other companies are paying in total
compensation for a similar position in your area. Learn how your company
compares in the area of compensation. Data as of June 2008.
The Janco Associates, Inc. salary survey draws on data collected throughout the
year by extensive internet-based and completed survey forms sent to businesses
throughout the United States and Canada. Our database contains over 50,000
data points.
Summary Results and
Changes in Demand for IT Jobs 2008
IT Median Salaries June 2007 versus June 2008
June '07 Mean
June '08 Mean
Total
Base
Total
Base
Total
Change
Executives
$127,620
$143,106
$128,491
$144,645
1.08%
Middle Managers
$75,143
$78,845
$76,073
$79,777
1.18%
Staff
$63,146
$66,517
$63,186
$66,433
-0.13%
Large Enterprise
$76,518
$81,532
$77,063
$82,108
0.71%
Executives
$116,838
$131,321
$116,666
$131,793
0.36%
Middle Managers
$71,009
$74,645
$70,949
$74,701
0.08%
Staff
$58,352
$60,442
$58,647
$60,736
0.49%
Mid-Size Enterprises
$71,284
$75,601
$71,361
$75,810
0.28%
IT Averages All
$73,901
$78,567
$74,212
$78,959
0.50%
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The positions that have the greatest change in demand
are listed below. The positions that show an increased demand tend to
have significantly higher offering salaries. This in turn, inflates the
level of compensation for individuals who remain in those existing
positions.
In those positions that are facing decreasing demand, increases
in compensation are normally based on “time-in-grade” or tenure within the
enterprise.
Positions with
Increased Demand
Positions with
Decreased Demand
Large Enterprises
VP – Information Service
Director Systems & Programming
Manager Data Warehouse
Computer Operations – Shift Manager
Voice Wireless Communications Manager
Manager Wireless Communications
Data Center Facility Administrator
VP –
Consulting Services
Project Manager Systems
Network Services Administrator
Network Technician
Software Engineer
Systems Programmers
Mid Sized
Enterprises
VP –
Security (CSO)
Director
Systems & Programming
Director
IT Planning
Computer
Operations – Shift Manager
Computer
Operations – Shift Supervisor
Change
Control Analyst
VP –
Technical Services
Manager Operating Systems Production
Production Services Administrator
Project Manager Applications
Network Service Administrator
Current News
09/03/2008
Job Market Continues to soften
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In an Associated
Press story it was stated that job cuts announced by U.S. employers last
month jumped 12 percent over a year ago to cap the busiest summer of downsizing
in six years. The monthly job reductions slowed somewhat from July but still
exceeded the year-ago figure for a seventh time in 2008. Employers announced plans to reduce their work forces by 88,736
jobs in August 14 percent fewer than the 103,312 job cuts announced in July
but 12 percent more than the 79,459 recorded in August 2007.
This in agrees with the data
that Janco has collected.
08/31/2008
What You Should Do To Prepare If You May be Layed Off
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When you hear that your company may be outsourcing, laying people off, or
you feel you may be losing your job there are some things that you can do to get
ready before that happens and others that you can do once it happens to ease
your pain.
Document what is happening and what your benefits should
be
Relax and get yourself in a good frame of mind
Review all of your employment records including job offer and
performance reviews to know your rights
Update your resume
Expand your skill set via any training that is available to
you
Review your professional networks contract information and keep a copy
at home
Review your spending and saving situation and know what the impact of
losing your job would be
Utilize your existing insurance programs and do medical / dental work
quickly and know what insurance options such as COBRA you will have if you
lose your job
Put out feelers to see what other opportunities you have, use internet
job boards to measure market conditions
Know you strengths and weaknesses and begin to prepare for the
interview
Re-establish your contacts with recruiters
Keep good records on all efforts you place in the potential job
hunt
08/29/2008
Over 80% of IT Professionals Lose Jobs When Companies Outsource
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Janco Associates has just completed an analysis of over 75 companies
within the US that have outsourced their IT functions to see what the impact was
on the IT Job Market.The major
finding was that just under 20% of the IT professionals remained with the
company in some capacity and in some cases at a lower salary.
The actual
percentages were 71.63% - Laid off; 8,65% - Quit within 90 days of the
outsourcing; and 19.72% - Remained with the company at least 90 days after
outsourcing.
08/27/2008
Non-Compete Clauses Ruled Invalid in California
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(cNet) -
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state law ruling that
employers cannot restrict employees from working for a competitor or soliciting
former clients when they leave the company.
That may be good news for California-based tech employees who want to
take their skills to another company, or head a start-up that may directly
compete with their former employer. "Noncompete" contracts, in place largely to
protect an employer's intellectual property, began being used by companies
during the dot-com boom to prevent losing valuable workers in a competitive
technology labor market.
The California law has been in existence since 1872, forbidding
"noncompete clauses" that restrict management employees' options in their next
job or business. But the law has been interpreted differently throughout the
state, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled in
favor of allowing a company to limit their employees' future job choices, as
long as it doesn't prevent them from working in the same field.
Thursday's ruling was a response to the Edwards vs. Arthur Andersen case,
stating clearly that Edwards, a tax manager, signed an invalid noncompete
clause. The court said in its final disposition (see PDF) that "Non-competition agreements are invalid...in
California even if narrowly drawn."
08/22/2008
Things That You do Not Want to Say to Your Management or Users
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There is no
documentation on the application (code) - When a program fails at a critical
point in time and the error is investigated you find there is no documentation
of what the code does, how it impacts other applications, and the programmer who
wrote the code cannot be identified or is no longer with your
enterprise.
No application
relationship diagram is available When it is time to upgrade or change
and you find that there is no application interface definition nor is there any
documentation which tells you how the application interfaces with all of the
other applications within the enterprise.
Key employee is actively
seeking a new job or looking to retire Out of 100 IT employees 22
change jobs within each 12 months.Add to that the fact that between 20 to 30% of "legacy" system experts
are going to retire within the next 5 years and you have another issue the CIO
needs to address.
Users and the CIO want
an application and you cannot document the ROI Pressure is placed on
you to build the business case for a new application or an enhancement to an
existing one and you cannot prove that it meets the enterprises ROI
threshold.
You do not know what the
CIOs vision is You are in a meeting with users and the CIO and say
something that shows that you are not on the same page as the
CIO.
08/21/2008
Enterprise Architecture Job Description Bundle Released by Janco
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A
bundle of Job Descriptions have been created for Enterprise Architecture. In
addition several other job descriptions have been updated to reflect the
Enterprise Architecture function. The twelve (12) job descriptions
are:
08/15/2008
Can Your eMail Address Impact Your Job Search
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Scientists at the University of Leipzig have taken a close look what your
e-mail address says about you.They
found that people really do judge others based on the e-mail addresses they
choose. What's more interesting, however, is that these judgments tend to be
right.
In a
research published recently in the Journal of Research in Personality, the
scientists took a look at just e-mail addresses and had the people who created
them fill out a brief personality questionnaire. Then, they asked other students
to rate these same addresses to find out if the e-mail names seemed to be
neurotic, open, agreeable, conscientious, narcissistic or extroverted.
They
discovered is that the students tended to judge people based on their addresses.
The researchers say it's astonishing that the sliver of information that you
pass on in your e-mail address can be enough for people to get a valid read on
your personality.
Their
advice is simple: Choose an address you like. After all, is it really such a bad
thing for others to see you the way you are?
Just five months ago, it seemed as if
demand for IT jobs was holding firm, even as other sectors halted hiring
and/or cut jobs. But it didn't take long, about a quarter, for the slowing
economy to hit the IT industry. According to numbers from the U.S.
Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the information industry
lost 13,000 jobs in July and 44,000 jobs over the past 12 months. This
report contrasts sharply with earlier surveys from two industry trade
groups, the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses and
AeA, both of which found the economy added more than than 90,000 IT jobs
over the past year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers mesh more
closely with two just-released surveys, one from Goldman Sachs & Co.
that found a growing number of managers considering IT staff cuts, and
another from Janco Associates that put demand for IT jobs at its lowest
point since 2004.
In
speaking with a large number of CTOs, CIOs, and IT decision makers about IT
culture, and signs Janco has drawn some conclusions. We have found that there
are many who advise CTOs, CIOs, and IT decision makers on how to go about making
big changes to their IT culture, but less is said about what changes could mean
for the staffers within the department.
A
culture change from decisions being made from a large to a small group of people
might force an employee to quickly adjust the way they get things done. A change
from a U.S focused IT organization to a global one might put pressure on a
worker to adjust their schedule, and their way of communicating with customers
to fit the culture.
However, the message is that the onus is on the IT professionals
to adapt to the changes being made within their departments. Yet most employees
have from time to time felt that the culture of their group was changing and
perhaps leaving them behind. Is the only option to quietly focus on getting
another job?
As
the culture changes the IT professional needs to be aware of the way decisions
are made, who makes the decisions, and how that impacts them?If that is not understood and dealt with
frustration and poor performance follows.
08/06/2008
Proven Steps to Increase Your Compensation
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Many IT professionals ask, How can I increase what I am
paid?Janco has defined 5 proven
actions that any IT professional can take.They are:
Obtain a university or technical degree A BA or BS will have value long past that of a
certification that will be out of date in a few years.
Build your network of peers and potential
employers - You need others who
will vouch for you, whether you are transitioning outside your current company
or aiming for an internal promotion, so it is important to build trust and
respect with your peers, bosses and associates. As a part of this effort,
focus on improving your communication skills.
Increase Your hardware, software, and application
experience - If you are going to have to use IT hardware,
software, and applications, maintain them for other users or convince
customers to include those products in solution, you need to be able to
discuss your own experiences with those
products.
Attend training and seminars of the latest IT
solutions Expand your knowledge
and experience base by every means possible.There are many training and seminar
programs that are available from vendors attend them and then quickly apply
what you have learned.
Expand your on-the-job experience-
Whenever opportunity arises, throw your hat in the ring for that new project,
whether or not it is outside your areas of expertise.Pursuing projects outside the normal
scope of your job responsibilities not only expands your marketable knowledge
and experience, but can put you in the position to meet, network with and
impress new people.
08/01/2008
Employment Falls in the IT and Telecommunications Industry
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics US Department of Labor
in July employment for the information industry declined by 13,000 jobs and by
44,000 over the past 12 months.Telecommunications lost 5,000 jobs in July.
This
data agrees with the June forecast made by Janco Associates when it released it
2008 Mid Year Salary Survey for Information Technology and Communication
professionals.
Janco
found that demand was down for many IT pofessionals. The CEO of Janco was
quoted in eWeek.
Enterprises
have slowed down and in many cases eliminated discretionary spending by IT, the
Janco survey found, something that has resulted in fewer projects being
initiated, the use of consultants being reduced, if not eliminated, and a
slowdown of initiatives that had already been approved.
"CIOs' management
is telling them to pull their horns in," Janulaitis said. "IT is now in a place
where people are thinking that with all of these great tools out there, do we
still need centralized processes? Do we have to have that infrastructure
ourselves?"
Janco's data found that IT hiring demand is the lowest it has
been since 2004, with increases in compensation for most IT professionals having
been outpaced by growth in the cost of living. Hiring is also being limited to
key replacements, and some roles are more at risk than others.
"They're
looking first at the administrative positions, those not in a main line
development role. Supporting roles are the most at risk," said Janulaitis,
speaking of jobs that large IT organizations were offshoring long before fears
of a recession struck. "In a way, this recession may expedite processes that
were already in place."
Janco continues to review the IT job market for CIOs and CTOs. but sees
few bright sposts. A Job Market Index just released found very few
among the unemployed management ranks willing to leave the job search for their
own venture. The compnay doing the survey polled 3,000 recently
"discharged" managers and executives. They found:
The startup rate among unemployed managers and executives fell to
4.3 percent in the second quarter, compared to 7.2 percent in the first
quarter. Last year, 6 percent of job seekers abandoned the traditional job
market for entrepreneurship in the second quarter, according to the
study. The second quarter figure was the lowest since the fourth quarter
of 2000, when only 3.5 percent of job seekers started their own
firms.
07/17/2008
Is IT Spending on the Rise or Falling
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CDW has reported that IT staffing and spending is on the rise.
CDW says, "The past two months have seen IT executives grow
increasing bullish about the future of their organizations, according to the
results of the most recent CDW IT Monitor, a bimonthly survey that gauges IT budget
management and spending plans and tracks the perceived value of business
technology.
The CEO of Janco Associates, Victor Janulaitis
disagrees. Mr. Janulaitis said, "We are seeing enterprises of all sizes
begin to be more cautious - they are now deferring both hiring and
spending."
07/10/2008
IT Job Unemployment Is LOW
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(CIO Insight) Unemployment among computer-related
jobs hovers near historic lows as the U.S. information technology workforce tops
4 million for the first time.
The size of the IT workforce in the United States has topped 4
million workers for the first time last quarter, according to CIO
Insight's analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. And the number
of employed IT pros reached 3,956,000 in the second quarter of 2008, also a
record high.
The IT unemployment rate inched up one-tenth of a percentage
point last quarter to 2.3 percent, but still hovers near historic lows. That is
in contrast to overall unemployment, which last quarter stood at 4.7 percent,
more than double the IT jobless rate. (In June, overall unemployment stood at
5.5 percent for the second consecutive month, after shedding 62,000 jobs that
month. Comparable numbers arent available for computer-related
occupations.)
Why would IT employment remain robust as unemployment rises in
most other job categories? IT performs a critical role in business productivity,
and the efficiencies it brings are crucial for employers looking to trim costs -
including payrolls - as fuel and related expenditures soar and the economy and
dollar weakens. In addition, companies today cannot operate without functioning
IT systems, so certain business technology skills cannot be eliminated if a
company wants to remain competitive.
A year earlier, the IT unemployment rate stood at 2.1 percent,
with 3,599,000 workers employed in IT and 77,000 jobless and looking for
positions in the field, for an IT workforce size of 3,675,000.
With 4,050,000 managers, professionals and other staffers
holding or seeking computer-related positions last quarter, the IT workforce has
grown by 10.2 percent over the past four quarters.
Another sign of a strong IT economy: the number of workers
employed by IT services firms rose by 56,100 this past year to 1,414,400, a 4.1
percent increase, according to last months BLS establishment survey of some
160,000 businesses and government agencies covering about 400,000 worksites. The
active sample includes about one-third of all nonfarm payroll workers.
The increase in IT services employment reflects the continuing
need by companies for outsourcers to manage corporate IT infrastructures as well
as provide hard-to-find but needed skills to develop and support new
applications and systems.
Not every person employed by IT services firms - officially
labeled by the government as computer systems design and related services - is
an IT pro, but a majority are. A 2006 government report estimates that 53
percent of IT services firms' workers hold IT jobs such as programmers; software
engineers; computer, network systems and data communications analysts; or
database, network and systems administrators. Another 3 percent are computer and
IS managers. The remaining employees44 percent of payrollsencompass non-IT
managers and administrative and operational support personnel, including those
in finance, human resources and sales.
Besides the establishment survey, the government also queries
60,000 households to determine employment and unemployment in the U.S. For our
analysis, we use a BLS quarterly report that aggregates the monthly reports and
details employment in hundreds of occupation categories. The government tracks
seven major computer-related job categories: computer scientists and systems
analysts, computer programmers, computer software engineers, computer support
specialists, database administrators, network and computer systems
administrators and network systems and data communications specialists plus
computer and information systems managers.
CIO Insight analyzes these eight occupation categories to
determine current IT employment conditions. Because these IT professions
comprises less than 3 percent of the overall workforce, and each occupation
categorys size on its own would be statistically unreliable, CIO Insight
aggregates the last four quarters to determine each quarter's workforce,
employment and unemployment levels. For example, we added BLS data from the last
two quarters of 2007 and the first two quarters of 2008 then divided by four to
determine second-quarter 2008 data. Statisticians and economists say aggregating
four quarters worth of data makes them more statically reliable than just using
one quarter's worth of data.
function. The twelve (12) job descriptions
are:
