Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports
Salary Reports for Information Technology Professionals
Salary Results by Position, Skills, Experience and Location
Updated Quarterly - Complete Statistical Documentation
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Access the Complete PDF File of the 1997 C++ Programmer Salary Survey Report.
View the 1997 Geographic Salary Adjustment Multipliers.
Additional information is available on this web page in the sections below:
The free archive includes all of the Salary Survey Reports from 1995 through 1998:
This line depicts the expected salary offer for each year of required experience calculated from the sample of want ads.
The expected salary for each year of required experience is shown in a box on the line.
The expected salary is the most likely, and the average, salary offered.
The gray lines above and below the middle black line present the Highest and Lowest salary offers that can be expected in the entire job market.
There is a 95% certainty that the average salary offer, within the entire job market for this position, lies between the High and the Low numbers that point to the gray lines at each year of required experience.
All three curves cross at the central tendency point.
The further the number of years of required experience is from the central tendency point, the larger the 95% probability region of the expected salary offer.
Please refer to the element by element diagrams of the Graph Reading Guide for additional information.
The Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports available in this archive present the results of previous information technology salary surveys. Each Salary Survey Report is specified by an information technology Job Title and offers salary results by the Years of Experience. Many of the Salary Survey Reports also offer salary results by Location. The salary results include: the Expected Salary Offer, the specific Inflation level (if applicable) and the highs and lows in the marketplace. Statistical documentation is also included.
The Job Titles include programmer, database, systems, network and other specialized information technology positions. If you are interested in salary information for an alternative career please view our descriptive Links to salary survey, career resource and statistical reference sites.
In each year, Job Title salary surveys were made from want ads listed in the New York Times Sunday Employment section. In 1997 and 1998 geographic salary adjustment multipliers were derived from want ads posted to the internet newsgroup "comp.jobs.offered". Surveyed want ads list a location, qualifications within the IT profession, a salary offer and -for Job Title salary surveys- an experience requirement.
The Job Titles are developed empirically, from the want ad data itself. A Job Title is formed when a set of qualifications is required in a significant number of want ads. The Job Titles are an indication of the positions and the associated hardware/software skills in demand. Due to differences in demand, some of the Job Titles have more specific qualifications than others.
A Job Title of a Salary Survey Report refers to a set of information technology qualifications. A position -such as administrator, developer, engineer, programmer or support- is a typical qualification. One or more skills in the use of computer hardware and/or software -such as programming languages, databases, applications, systems, networks, communications and the internet- are usually linked with a position to form a Job Title. For instance the title "C++ and Java Programmer on the UNIX Platform" specifies two programming languages, a position and the computer hardware.
The principal statistical technique of the Job Title salary surveys is the Regression Analysis. This technique derives the 'best fit' equation between the salary offers and the job characteristics in the want ads surveyed. The 'best fit' is the average equation of the salary offer possessing the minimum variance between the want ads of the sample.
The regression equation expresses the mathematical relationship between the salary offer and the significant job characteristics. There is usually an entry level salary offer and a rate of increase based on years of experience. Wage inflation or deflation is not an uncommon component of the regression equation. Additional position and skill qualifications can also be components in the salary offer calculation.
The method of determining the regression equation of the salary survey begins by verifying that each of the job characteristics are unrelated to each other. The 95% collinearity test verifies that only the job characteristics that influence salary offers directly are applied in the regression equation. The significance of each of the components of the regression equation is verified using the t-Distribution statistical test set to a high quality standard. The significance of the entire regression equation is verified using the F-Distribution statistical test set to a high quality standard. The variance of the regression equation is tested against heteroscedasticity. If heteroscedasticity is statistically significant, a variance correction is applied to recalculate the 'best fit' salary offer regression equation. Each Salary Survey Report includes the R-squared, t-Distribution, F-Distribution and the heteroscedasticity existence and correction statistical test results.
The 1997 and 1998 Salary Survey Reports include geographic salary adjustment multipliers for locations in Canada and the United States of America. These multipliers are calculated as the ratio of the mean salary offer from each geographic region relative to the New York City region. The mean salary offer and its 95% confidence interval (±1.96 times the standard deviation of the mean) were derived for each geographic area. The geographic adjustment multipliers were calculated as the ratio of the means, 95% lower bounds and 95% upper bounds of each geographic region relative to the New York City region. To be included in the geographic salary survey, a want ad had to list a salary offer, a geographic region and a set of qualifications corresponding to a Job Title.
The 1995 through 1998 Salary Survey Reports present salary results at every year of experience from Entry Level to 10 years. The 1998 Salary Survey Reports are also available for any Number of Years and/or Months of Experience for each Job Title and Location.
Each of the original Salary Survey Reports can be accessed as a "pdf" document. In addition, a web page that includes at least one of the most significant salary graphs is offered for each Job Title. You May select a web page from the lists of Job Title links or select the PDF file of any Salary Survey Report in the archive.
The more recent Salary Survey Reports can be accessed with the Selection Form. Select an Information Technology Job Title, a Location and the Number of Years and/or Months of Experience and receive a Salary Survey Report with: the Expected Salary Offer, the specific Inflation level (if applicable), the highs and lows in the marketplace and statistical documentation. These Salary Survey Reports are viewed on your web browser to be printed and/or saved to your computer.
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Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. has prepared the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports according to accepted statistical standards. Statistically equivalent salary survey results could be reproduced by a qualified statistician following the identical methodology.
The raw data of the Salary Survey Reports are want ads anonymously obtained from publicly available web sites and internet newsgroups. Whole Root® Economic Research has never requested or obtained customized, altered or proprietary want ads designed explicitly for a salary survey from any individual or any public or private organization. Whole Root® Economic Research does not print, post or provide access to any individual want ad in whole or in part.
The statistics present average and variance information about the sample of want ads. Possible biases and other errors may exist within the sources of the sample that Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. is not responsible for. Individual want ads and job placements can not be identified. Job placement and/or salary improvement is not guaranteed nor offered.
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The raw data of the 1995 through 1998 editions of the Salary Survey Reports included want ads anonymously obtained from publicly available newspapers. The New York Times, the Washington Post and all other newspaper publishers are not associated with, do not endorse and are not responsible for the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports or Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. in anyway.
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