2012 IT Salary Survey
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 howyour company compares in the area of compensation. Get IT Job Descriptions and staff hiring guidelines. These figures are based on a full time employee’s salary. For part time jobs in information technology, the salaries will obviously change.
The Janco Associates, Inc. salary survey draws on data collected throughout the year by extensive internet-based and completed surveyforms sent to businesses throughout the United States and Canada. Our database contains over 80,000 data points.
The compensation study (160 plus pages in PDF or WORD and EXCEL with the data) can be ordered here. In addition if you provide us with more than ten (10) data points you can get a copy of the next IT Salary Survey for free. This survey is published in January and July.
IT Salary Survey Summary
IT Staffing and Compensastion News
05/29/2012
First HP now RIM to cut staff
Research In Motion, the ailing maker of the BlackBerry, is planning to cut at least 2,000 jobs as part of a global restructuring plan, according to reports.
The restructuring could begin in the next couple of weeks, and would affect staff worldwide, The Globe and Mail said citing several unnamed people close to the company. One person familiar with the company's plans said the layoffs may cut even deeper, the Canadian newspaper said on Saturday.
AllThingsD also quoted sources close to the company as stating that RIM planned to cut at least 2,000 jobs out of the company's total staff strength of about 16,500.
The company has been seeing its market share decline in the smartphone market as competition picks up from Apple's iPhone, and phones running the Android operating system. A research firm reported last week that 9.7 million phones running the BlackBerry operating system shipped in the first quarter for a market share of 6.4%, which was far lower than shipments of 13.8 million units for a market share of 13.6% in the first quarter of last year.
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05/27/2012
Offshoring to Slow
While many hope the recovery of the U.S. economy will create domestic job opportunities, a recent report from the Hackett Group finds that the U.S. job market will continue to face challenges. Many jobs will be off-shored in the coming years to nations such as China and India. These "low-cost geography" nations appeal to organizations that strive to keep operating costs low. As a result, the wave of migrating opportunities should have a considerable impact over the next several years.
However, they report that this trend will begin to decline by 2014, and then the outflow of jobs will likely cease because companies will run out of positions that are suitable for moving to these nations. The research was compiled via available data on 4,700 companies with annual revenues over $1 billion headquartered in the United States and Europe.
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05/26/2012
ERP Job Description Bundle Released
Enterprise Resourse Planning (ERP) Job Description Bundle
Janco has just released a job description bundle for Enterprise Resource Planning. The job descriptions inlcluded are:
- Project Manager, ERP
- ERP Business Analyst
- ERP Data Architect
- ERP Decision Support Analyst
- ERP Developer
- ERP Functional Lead
- ERP Infrastructure Administrator
- ERP Master Data Analyst
- ERP Process Owner
- ERP Security Administrator
- ERP Security Analyst
- ERP Subject Matter Expert
- ERP Team Lead
- ERP Technical Lead
- ERP Trainer
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05/24/2012
Janco finds the CIO tenure just over 4 years
Survey finds that CIO jobs are not secure
In a survey of 438 companies in the United States, South America, and Europe Janco has found that CIOs jobs are not very secure in the current economic conditions. The CEO of Janco said, "We have seen a fairly steady change in the CIO positions for several months. As a result we conducted a preliminary review of CIO turnover in a number of companies. The companies were of all sizes and our preliminary results are that the median length of employment was approximately 4 years and 1 month." He added, "There are a fair number of CIOs who have been in their positions for over 5 years, however many of them are close to retirement age. As a result we feel the tenure for the CIO will increase any time soon."
Janco conducted this survey via telephone and email. These results will be published in Janco's Mid-Year IT Salary Survey which is due to be released in late June of this year.
Summary Janco 12 month comparisons show that mean compensation (which includes bonuses) for all IT executive positions in large enterprises surveyed is $140,960 (an increase from $140,267 in 2010) and $123,378 (a slight increase from $123,301 in 2010) in mid-sized enterprises. Overall compensation for all IT Professionals has increased from $77,604 to $77,873; however the study shows that there was a 5% decrease in the number of employees receiving personal performance bonuses while there was 5% increase in those receiving enterprise based performance bonuses. Mr. Janulaitis said, "Bonuses are showing that companies are look for enterprise revenue improvements and want to motivate employees to focus on improving the company's bottom line over and above everything else."
Janco has captured IT compensation data since 1996 and publishes its IT Salary Survey semi-annually. The IT Salary Survey is based on Janco's IT professionals' compensation database. Compensation benchmark hiring and salary ranges are established for each position surveyed. In analyzing the study data, the upper and lower quartiles are eliminated to determine the benchmark ranges. The benchmark ranges are then used to assess the alignment of a company's actual compensation to the marketplace for each job function. A summary of the most recent salary survey can be downloaded by visiting Janco IT Salary Survey at http://ww.e-janco.com/Salary.htm.
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05/12/2012
Most firms have not defined mobability policies
Policies defined the rules of the road for mobile computing yet only one in five organizations have them defined and implemented according to Janco Associates. This lows rate of definition is driven by smaller to mid-sized firms as almost half of all large firms have mobility policies defined.
When a CIO or an IT Executive takes over a new job one of the greatest challenges is to quickly validate that the infrastructure that is in place. Would it not be nice to have some tools that could be use to quickly put proven world class policies in place with minimal effort. That is what the CIO IT Infrastructure Policy Bundle does.
The mobility policy template address all areas related to mobility: mobile devices (including procedures for lost devices), mobile applications including consideration for approved applications for business use), and data in mobile environments (including policy for using public Wi-Fi networks).
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04/29/2012
Mobile workers to drive IT
By 2015,
the world's mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion, representing 37.2
percent of the total workforce, according to an updated forecast from an IT
analytics firm. The report projects the most significant gains will again be in
the emerging economies of Asia/Pacific thanks to continued, strong economic
growth. The Americas will experience a slower growth rate due to a protracted
economic recovery and high rates of unemployment, the analysts
concluded.
This bundle contains the following policies:
- CIO IT Infrastructure Policy Bundle
- Backup and Backup Retention Policy
- Blog and Personal Web Site Policy
- BYOD Policy
- Incident Communication Policy
- Internet, e-Mail, Social Networking, Mobile Device, Electronic Communications, and Record Retention Policy
- Mobile Device Access and Use Policy
- Outsourcing Policy
- Record Management, Retention, and Destruction Policy
- Sensitive Information Policy (HIPAA Compliant)
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) Policy Template with Metrics
- Social Networking Policy
- Telecommuting Policy
- Travel and Off-Site Meeting Policy
- Electronic Forms
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