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IT Salary Survey 2012
Examining job satisfaction and salary trends
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IT Salary Survey 2012: Examining josatisfaction and salary trend
Contents
Salary statistics reveal
modest growth in IT
sector in 2012
Gap among industries
in average salary for
senior IT is
considerable
Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
TechTarget's annual IT Salary Survey delves intoexecutive and staff salary trends, pay by industryand the factors that contribute to job satisfaction.
TechTarget's IT Salary Survey 2012, conducted amongreaders across TechTarget's network of sites, polled 2,277 IT
professionals in North America boasting specialties in 40areas of IT. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of theirresponses, hoping to gain insights into salary trends indifferent industries and at various levels of the organization,
as well as to gauge the factors that drive job satisfactionamong IT managers and staff. Review our IT Salary Survey2012 findings below to learn how your salary and careeroutlook stacks up in today's IT landscape.
Salary statistics reveal modest growth in IT sector in 2012
In the IT industry, it's no surprise that the big money comes from the coffers
of larger companies. TechTarget's IT Salary Survey 2012 looks at the latest
salary statistics and delves into the differences between the average salaries
of senior IT leaders and IT talent at enterprise organizations, as well as
between CIO and CTO average salary rates. If 2012 was any indication,
typical IT staffers shouldn't hold their breath waiting for an average yearly
raise greater than 4% in 2013.
The salary survey, conducted among readers across TechTarget's network
of sites, gathered 2,277 responses from IT professionals in North America,
including 778 senior IT leaders who were a vice president or CIO or who
reported to a C-level executive. Participants in the salary survey reported
having specialties in 40 areas of IT, and they hailed from all fifty U.S. states,Canada and Mexico.
Salary averages were in direct correlation with the role the survey
respondents played in the IT organization. Respondents who held senior IT
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Salary statistics reveal
modest growth in IT
sector in 2012
Gap among industries
in average salary for
senior IT is
considerable
Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
leadership positions -- vice president or CIO -- or who reported to a C-levelexecutive -- reported salaries that were on average about 15% higher than
the professionals who reported to them. On average, senior IT leaders
reported an average salary of $104,589, compared to the $88,763 average
salary that was reported by general IT staff and subject matter experts. This
delta remained consistent in all companies with fewer than 1,000 employees,
but for enterprise companies, senior IT leaders made an average of 25%
more than their reports.
Across the board, company size was a predictor of salary -- professionals at
smaller companies made significantly lower average salaries than
professionals at larger ones. Thesalary statisticssuggest that senior IT
leaders at organizations with fewer than 100 employees actually receive
lower pay, on average, than general IT staff and subject matter experts at
companies with more than 1,000 employees: The average salary for senior
IT leaders at small companies is $92,303, compared with $93,165 for general
IT staffers at enterprise companies.
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Salary statistics reveal
modest growth in IT
sector in 2012
Gap among industries
in average salary for
senior IT is
considerable
Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
Salary statistics by job titleAcross the salary survey, the average highest-paying IT position was the
position the survey titled EVP/SVP/VP of Business Applications. Survey
respondents who identified themselves as an executive vice president, senior
vice president or vice president of business applications reported an average
salary of $167,900; their individual base salaries were widely spread
between $56,000 and $300,000 annually.
If you've ever wondered what the real difference is between a chief
technology officer (CTO) and a CIO, the difference is more than a simple
middle initial. Survey respondents who identified themselves as a CTO
reported an average salary of $155,625, and CTOs base salaries ranged
from $80,000 to $275,000. Meanwhile, CIOs reported an average salary thatwas $30,000 less than the average salary reported by CTOs, and CIOs base
salaries varied more, ranging from $45,000 to $360,000.
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modest growth in IT
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Gap among industries
in average salary for
senior IT is
considerable
Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
CTOs in general reported larger average salaries: Among CTOs, 85%reported earning more than $110,000, while 58% of CIOs reported the same
income marker. CIOs in larger, enterprise-level companies tended to earn
larger average salaries that were larger than CTOs average salaries --
$164,750 was the average salary reported by CIOs in enterprise
organizations -- but similarly, CTOs in enterprise-level organizations also
reported ahigher average salary($231,667 average salary).
"In my mind, the 'right' salary for CIO depends on the size of the institution,
its complexity and your negotiation skills. A CIO touches every corner of the
institution and feels he or she should be under the same compensation as
the business executives," said Jaime Manriquez, CTO at the Santa CruzCounty Bank in California.
The lowest average salary rates were reported by respondents who identified
themselves as being in the survey categories of IT Staff and Network
Manager/Administrator. The average salaries across the board for those
individuals were the lowest, at $72,717 and $73,934 respectively, but
professionals in those roles in organizations with fewer than 100 employees
reported the lowest average salaries of any group in the survey ($47,787 and
$55,486, respectively). See the sidebar for the average salaries paid for the
most common IT job titles.
Insight into the average yearly raise
If 2012 is any indication, the average pay raise for 2013 is going to be
modest. By far the majority of respondents (61%) received an average yearly
raise of 2.0% to 4.9%, with another 10% of respondents receiving an
average pay raise of .01% to 1.9%. While the number of respondents
receiving an average pay raise of.01% to 1.9% has climbed over the last
three years of TechTarget's IT salary surveys (up from 7.2% in 2010), so has
the number of respondents receiving more than a 7% average raise. In 2010,
12.4% of survey takers reported receiving an average pay raise of 7.0% or
higher. In 2011, the percentage of survey takers in that group rose to 15.7%;
and in 2012, about one in five survey takers reporting average raises higher
than 7.0%.
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in average salary for
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and why they go
Annual salary increases 2010 2011 20120.01% to 1.9% 7.2% 7.5% 10.0%
2.0% to 4.9% 65.3% 62.9% 61.3%
5.0% to 6.9% 15.2% 13.9% 9.8%
7.0% to 9.9% 3.7% 5.1% 4.3%
10% to 14.9% 4.9% 4.4% 7.1%
15% to 19.9% 0.9% 2.4% 3.2%
20% to 49.9% 2.6% 2.9% 3.6%
50% to 99% 0.0% 0.7% 0.7%
100% or more 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
Here are more takeaways from TechTarget's IT Salary Survey 2012:
The majority (47%) of respondents had been in their current roles for
one to five years. About a quarter (24%) had been in their roles for
six to 10 years. However, while the average time spent in any given
role is usually less than 10 years, the majority of respondents had
been in the IT field from 11 to 20 years (42%), and more than a third
(36%) of respondents had been in the IT field for more than 21
years.
One-fifth (22%) of respondents werehappy in their current roles,
while almost half (47%) had their eyes on internal advancement in
the next three to five years, in either IT or another area of the
business. Only 17% were interested in leaving their current
organization.
IT staff working in larger companies were more likely to report being
contacted by recruiters. More than 70% of respondents in enterprise
organizations had been tapped by executive headhunters, compared
to 57% of respondents in companies with fewer than 100 employees.
About half (57%) of the salary survey respondents felt their overall
compensation had improved or increased compared to 2011, while
17% felt that it had declined or taken a negative turn. We looked at
our 2011 salary survey data, and the statistics were nearly identical,
with 56% reporting a positive trend compared to 2010.
There are still strong indicators that the recession is still having an
impact on IT departments, but an optimistic 41% of survey
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in average salary for
senior IT is
considerable
Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
respondents reported that their IT department is growing or isactively hiring. Almost one-third (30%), however, reported their
departments are shrinking or under a hiring freeze, while 1%
reported they currently have a staff shortage but are not able to fill
the positions.
TechTarget will be bringing you deeper dives into this first-ever network-wide
salary survey event. We'll be looking at the ways salaries are affected by size
of company, industryand gender, as well as the secret to retaining IT talent
in 2013 and beyond.
Gap among industries in average salary for senior IT isconsiderable
Does it matter to which industry senior IT leaders take their talents? Yes and
no, according to TechTarget's IT Salary Survey 2012. Measured by dollars,
the answer is an unambiguous "heck, yes!"
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in average salary for
senior IT is
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Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
The average salary of survey respondents in seniorIT roles, including CIO,chief technology officer (CTO) and IT positions reporting to the C-suite,
differed by as much as 80% by industry. Average salaries for senior IT
ranged from $146,000 in the manufacturing (IT-related) industry to a low of
$80,991 in the education industry. The data is based on responses from 778
senior IT leaders working in 22 industries.
The linkages among industries that pay well and those that don't will take
some teasing out. (Why, for example, are the automotive and energy
industries, which increasingly require sophisticated IT skills, at the bottom of
the pack?) The senior IT pay-by-industry pecking order, however, doesreveal a clear trend when the average salary data from 1,499 general IT staff
people is also considered. The disparity in pay between senior and junior
people is much more pronounced in thehighest-paying industries. The haves
not only have more than their peers, but they also have much more than
junior folks in their own industries.
General IT people employed by industries ranking in the top one-third in
senior IT pay (see below), earn on average only 74% of what their senior IT
peers make per year. The biggest gap is in top-ranked IT-related
manufacturing, where the rank and file makes only 68% of what senior IT is
paid:
Manufacturing (IT-related)
Financial
Computer and data processing/consulting
Research and development
Telecommunications/communications carrier
Business services/consulting
Entertainment
In contrast, general IT staff people working in the second tier of industries
(below) earn 85% of what their bosses make.
Technology service provider (ISP/application service
provider/manufacturing service provider)
Legal/insurance/real estate
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Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
Media/marketing/advertising Manufacturing (non-IT)
Value-added reseller/value-added distribution/systems and network
integrator
IT-related services
Aerospace/defense
The bottom one-third of industries (below) boasts the smallest gap between
the upper echelon and the rank and file, with general IT staff making 94% of
what their superiors earn.
Medical/health care/pharmaceutical/biotech
Wholesale/retail/trade (non-IT)
Construction/mining/agriculture
Government
Nonprofit/trade association
Automotive/transportation
Energy/utilities
Education
Average salary and the Easterlin Paradox
Given the significant salary gap between high- and low-paying industries for
senior IT leaders, one might expect these professionals to be jockeying to
land jobs in sectors that pay thehighest average salaries-- or at least be
unhappy that industry limits how much money they can make. This, however,
proved decidedly not the case for the senior IT survey respondents we
checked in with. Instead, they are more likely to embody theEasterlin
Paradox,which argues that once people attain a certain level of economic
stability in their own domain (the original data looked at countries), money no
longer matters quite as much and instead is trumped by factors such as
quality of life, stability and job satisfaction.
Job satisfaction is the main reason Tim Stockton plans to stay put. A systems
engineer who reports to the CIO at Virginia Western Community College in
Roanoke, he is measured on his ability on systems uptime and innovation. A
recent effort is his work on the school's move away from computer labs to a
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Job satisfaction: Why
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and why they go
virtualized infrastructurethat offers students anywhere, anytime access fromtheir own devices.
Stockton said he could earn more (his salary is in the $70,000 range) at a
four-year institution but finds the environment at his two-year college less
bureaucratic. "Four-year institutions tend to be more compartmentalized, and
IT departments compete for resources," he said. A private industry would
also pay him more, he added, but in a down economy where companies get
downsized or bought, he prefers the stability of an institution (one of the
largest community colleges in the state) that "isn't going anywhere," he said.
The likelihood of a college closing is small. "I've done the risk vs. rewards,
and right now I like stability."
Jeff Swiney, director of IS and distribution at a small, fast-growing women's
apparel chain and about 15 years older than Stockton, also is not driven by
money. He actually took a "significant cut in pay" to work in a business that is
not only taps his expertise in both IT and logistics but also is located in his
beloved Tennessee, where he has family and grandchildren. In fact, his pay
is under the retail industry's average salary of $92,000 in the TechTarget
survey, but he stands to make considerably more if the company goes public.
"The quality of life made up for the pay," he said.
Already on top, with nowhere to grow
"Jim," a senior software architect at a large IT services provider on the East
Coast, who needed to remain anonymous to discuss salary details, is in the
top echelon of pay. An experienced IT professional in his mid-40s with a
master's degree in electronics and telecommunications, he earns $220,000
in salary and earned a $6,000 bonus in 2011. For him, career development
must focus on parameters other than just pay.
Jim joined his company in 2007 through an acquisition, and considers
himself fortunate to have made the leap at thecusp of a recessionthat put
many startups out of business. The last time he worked at a large company
was during the dot-com bust, also by way of an acquisition made just before
the economy went sour. "Large companies weather the storm better," he
said. As a senior professional in the provider's research and development
arm, Jim is measured on hisability to innovate, work creatively and bring
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projects to completion. He is open to making a move and is often contactedby recruiters, but he's finding that his salary is pricing him out of contention.
"They'll say, 'Oh, that is out of our range,'" he said, adding that this past
downturn has been hard for IT professionals at the upper end of the scale.
"Companies are not investing in expensive senior people." People like him
used to be able to demand signing bonuses and were offered lucrative stock
options. "You might still get those perks when you come aboard, especially in
an acquisition, but once you're there, for sure they dry up," he said.
For all these reasons, Jim's employment is dictated by three questions: Is thedivision he's in growing, and can he grow with it? What other divisions in the
company offer opportunities to grow? If advancement isn't possible, is it
prudent to go to another startup? Some of his friends in Silicon Valley are
making the leap now, but his sense is that the tech economy on the East
Coast is not robust enough to warrant a move.
The big question going forward is whether the pay disparity between
industries and the pay disparities between IT leaders and IT staff people
remain stable. If IT folks in an industry are focused on how they are doing
relative to others in the same industry, according to current trends in
TechTarget's IT Salary Survey 2012, these disparities are likely to be with us
for some time.
Job satisfaction: Why senior IT leaders stay and why theygo
What do senior IT leaders working for an international packaging company, a
global plastics manufacturer and a nonprofit with 57 locations have in
common? What they make in a year holds little sway over why they choose
to stay at their company-- or in the case of one of them, why he plans to
leave his current job.
Pulling out the data for senior IT leaders in our IT Salary Survey 2012, only
8% said they stayed in their current job because of their salary. The majority
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senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
of the 691 senior IT executives who answered the question of why theystayed said they did so for three reasons: because their job was intellectually
challenging (38%), because they enjoyed the working environment and co-
workers (19%), and because they had a flexible work schedule (12%).
The director of IS for the international packaging company is on the hunt for
a job despite making $210,000 to $245,000, well above theaverage salary
for senior IT leadersemployed by non-IT related manufacturers, who on
average make $98,201.
"The salary is great, but I rate myjob satisfactionpretty low," said the
executive, who asked to remain anonymous because he is seeking new
employment. High up on the list of reasons he is choosing to jump ship iscompany mismanagement (the company is losing money every year and
management will not listen to suggestions on how to fix such problems as
low customer satisfaction) and a culture of fear. There have been more than
a dozen layoffs since he joined the company almost a decade ago. "Senior
management micromanages, so the morale is very depressed: Keep your
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senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
head down, stay under the radar to hold onto your job. The environment ispretty toxic," he said.
Job satisfaction and theculture factor
As the director of IS and IT infrastructure operations for a New York-based
victim's advocacy agency and nonprofit Safe Horizon Inc., a culture of
recognition for a job well done is a strong motivator for Wendell Thomas.
He makes between $80,000 and $90,000, right in line with the average
salary for senior IT leaders in the nonprofit sector ($80,943), according to our
IT Salary Survey 2012 data. He knows he could make more money in theprivate sector, but one of the main reasons he stays is the constant feedback
he receives from people across the company.
"I know there is an appreciation for what I do and the value that I bring," said
Thomas, who has been with Safe Horizon for five years. "I am not rewarded
monetarily because we are a nonprofit, but I have a great working
relationship with my boss [and] with the program leaders, and I get a whole
lot of positive feedback, which goes a long way."
What doesn't go a long way for Thomas is a homogenous corporate culture.
At a past job with a large for-profit company with 25,000 employees, he
made a decent salary, learned a lot as a manager and was given "loads of
training," he said. But "it was a very structured, be-like-us environment.
There was a diversity of people, but not a diversity of thought. They all
thought the same way and new ideas were slow to be accepted," he added.
Like Thomas, Serafin Salgado ran into micromanagement at his past job with
a technology services provider. "It eats away at you after a while," he said.
Today, as an IT manager with Poppelmann Plastics USA LLC, he has free
rein. His company is the North Carolina-based U.S. division of German-
based Poppelmann GmbH, which operates in 70 countries.
"I am my own boss, and I never know what's going to hit me from day to
day," Salgado said. As the first hire to head up Poppelmann's U.S. IT
operations, he is pretty much left to his own devices, and he loves it whether
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those "devices" call for setting up laptops or high-end responsibilities, suchas managing the network or implementing an ERP system.
And what is going to keep him there? The opportunity togrow with the
company, learn new skills and mentor new hires. In other words, the job is
challenging, and he likes it that way, even if he is paid less than the industry
average for what he does. And he is not alone. Of the 90 senior IT
executives who responded to the IT Salary Survey 2012 question as to why
they left their job in 2012, 23% said they wanted a new challenge.
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Gap among industries
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senior IT is
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Job satisfaction: Why
senior IT leaders stay
and why they go
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