IT Payroll Report|IT salary levels continue to grow, are you "reaching the standard"

Foreword

Global Knowledge IT skills and payroll reports continue to provide the most realistic and comprehensive data analysis for the internal operations of the global IT department. This year, more than 16,200 respondents from around the world, including North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific, completed the survey.

The report draws the following conclusions and trends:

• IT salary levels are maintaining growth momentum.
• Network security jobs have the highest wages in the global IT market: an average of $82,000/year.
• 89% of respondents have at least one effective professional IT certification, an increase of 3% from the previous year.

IT salary levels maintain growth momentum

• 50% to 72% of respondents have received a raise in the past year.
• The main reason for the salary increase mentioned by 40% of respondents is due to job performance.

More than 15% of IT staff attributed the increase in salary to the increase in new skills, which is the return on relevant IT certification.

The reason for the salary increase is closely related to the salary increase. The report shows that external promotion or external level transfer has achieved the largest average salary increase. For example, US respondents said they had to go to the new company to get a 13-19% salary increase. Internal promotion can also get a raise, but it is smaller than the external one.

Respondents who received a raise due to new IT certification indicated that their salary increase was between 9-16%.

Respondents who received a salary increase due to job responsibilities expansion or the development of valuable new skills indicated that their salary increase was between 7-13%.

Reasons for salary differences

We compare the respondent's salary data, including basic salary and bonuses, to their corresponding job responsibilities. The responsibilities hierarchy spans from the entry level to the executive level.

Entry-level IT staff (technical staff, analysts, junior staff, level 1, etc.) accounted for 19% of all respondents. The average annual salary for entry-levels ranges from $19,500 in the Asia-Pacific region to $55,275 in North America, with an average annual salary of $40,268.

Typical job roles include:

• Senior technical support staff
• Network technician
• Business system analyst

Intermediate IT staff (manager and team leader) are the main focus of this year's respondents, accounting for 52% of all respondents. The average annual salary for mid-level IT staff is $63,330, ranging from $32,286 in Latin America to $83,072 in North America. Intermediate IT managers in Europe, Middle East and Africa have an average annual salary of $52,535, while the average annual salary in the Asia Pacific region is $39,389.

Typical job roles include:

• Information security manager
• Network operations manager
• Application Architecture Manager

Senior IT staff accounted for 26% of all respondents this year. The average annual salary for this level is $81,110. Senior IT staff in Latin America have the lowest annual salary, averaging $37,108. The average annual salary for this level in North America is $10,748.

Typical job roles include:

• Director of systems engineering
• Vice President of Corporate Applications
• Vice President of Enterprise Architecture

The executive level accounted for 2% of all respondents, with an average annual salary of $87817.

Typical job roles include:

• CIO

The following are the average annual salary (in US dollars) earned by IT professionals with different job functions in the Asia Pacific region:

Job function                       average salary

Entry Entry Level IT Staff            $19,500

Mid Intermediate IT Staff           $39.389

Senior Senior IT Staff                 $54,575

Executive Executive Level          $54,352

Total Average Average             $41,954

Is certification still important?

The IT industry continues to believe that certification is the way to verify the skills and abilities of employees. 95% of IT decision makers believe that certification brings added value to the business. Managers say that certified employees can get their jobs done faster (38%), better meet the needs of customers and stakeholders (51%), and help eliminate corporate skill gaps.