February 7th, 2006
IT wages up 3.1% in 2005
According to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, hourly pay increased by 3.1% to an average of $30.27 per hour between Q4 2004 and Q4 2005. Since Q4 2001, wages for “high-impact technology professionals” have rise nearly 11%. The positions in the most demand include SAP functional consultants, who commanded an average of $75.09 per hour. Data warehouse architects, CRM managers, hardware/firmware engineers and a generic project manager classification rounded out the top five. Top ten jobs with the highest demand by employers in Q4 2005, together with their average hourly wages, were:
- Clinical Research Associate - $38.52
- Data Manager - $45.06
- CRM Project Manager - $62.01
- Data Warehouse Architect - $69.03
- Hardware/Firmware engineer - $59.34
- .NET Developer - $45.77
- Oracle Database Administrator - $55.82
- Project Manager - $57.07
- SAP Functional Consultant - $75.09
- Senior Scientist - $43.76
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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