Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports
Salary Reports for Information Technology Professionals
Salary Results by Position, Skills, Experience and Location
Updated Quarterly - Complete Statistical Documentation
Membership Subscriptions and a Free Archive
by Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc.
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A Competitive Position® Salary Survey Report is a 15 to 25 page document presenting the results of an information technology salary survey. An online form allows you to choose an IT Job Title, a Location and any Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. The Salary Survey Report is viewed on your web browser to be printed and/or saved to your computer.
Each Salary Survey Report includes: the Expected Salary Offer, the specific Inflation Rate (if applicable), the Raise with one more year of experience, the highs and lows in the marketplace and complete statistical documentation. The Salary Survey Reports are updated quarterly.
The Salary Survey Reports are precise and useful:
The Salary Survey Reports are thorough and informative:
The Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports are based on want ads listed in publicly available sources such as career web sites and internet newsgroups. The want ad sources are fully documented in each Salary Survey Report. Surveyed want ads list a location, qualifications within the IT profession, a salary offer and an experience requirement.
The Job Titles are developed empirically from the want ad data. A Job Title is formed when a set of qualifications is required in a significant number of want ads. A position and one or more skills in the use of computer hardware and/or software are usually linked to form a Job Title. The Job Titles are an indication of the positions and the associated hardware/software skills in demand.
The locations in the United States of America conform with the metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). These metropolitan statistical areas are commonly utilized in the statistical reports of government agencies and departments, such as the Statistical Abstract of the United States. The Salary Survey Reports can be utilized with these cost of living and demographic statistical reports to assess the quality-of-life factors of a position.
Any Number of Years and/or Months of Experience can be specified -for each Job Title and Location choice- and a unique Salary Survey Report will be selected. Salary results are available for every Number of Years and/or Months of Experience starting at Entry Level.
The complete Salary Survey Reports are statistically updated with newly posted want ads every quarter.
For more detailed information please go to the Selection Help page to view the Job Title qualifications, Location towns and counties, table of contents and completion dates of each of the Salary Survey Reports.
The Table of Contents of a Salary Survey Report for a specific Job Title, Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience:
Expected Salary Offers
Inflation Rate of Salary Offers (If Applicable)
Raise in Salary Offer with One More Year of Experience
Extreme Limits of a Salary Offer
Experience Requirements
Qualifications
Survey Information and Statistical Documentation
Each Salary Survey Report presents the combined results of 2 surveys. Job Title salary surveys are made for the United States of America. Location salary surveys are made for the information technology job markets. Together, the want ad data creates Salary Survey Reports about specific job markets for very detailed IT skills and positions.
The principal statistical technique of the salary survey 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 a common component of the regression equation. Additional position and skill qualifications can also be components in the salary offer calculation.
The significance of each regression equation is confirmed by several statistical tests. The 95% collinearity test verifies that only the job characteristics that influence salary offers directly are applied in the regression equation. The significance of the regression equation and each of its components is verified using the F-Distribution and t-Distribution statistical tests. The regression equation is also tested and, if necessary, corrected for heteroscedasticity, a condition where the variance of the salary offers can be explained by known job characteristics. The F-Distribution and t-Distribution statistical tests and the heteroscedasticity correction (if applicable) are documented in each Salary Survey Report.
The salary information in each Salary Survey Report is calculated from a Job Title regression equation and a geographic adjustment ratio. This ratio is constructed from the Location regression equation associated with the Job Title and the regression equation of the Location of the Salary Survey Report. Details about the specific regression equations are fully documented in each Salary Survey Report.
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 Membership Subscriptions provide immediate access with a secure online purchase by credit card or check. Each order involves a subscription to select a quantity of Salary Survey Reports with a membership period for online viewing. Membership Subscriptions with 3, 5, 10 or 30 Salary Survey Reports can be shared as long as access to each Salary Survey Report is restricted to only one individual. Membership Subscriptions for 6 Months or 1 Year of Unlimited Access are available according to the number of information technology individuals within a business, school or association. The list of available Membership Subscriptions:
Purchase orders can be submitted online. Licenses for both small and large institutions are available. The Salary Survey Reports are selected and viewed on your web browser for you to print and/or save to your computer.
Your web browser is all that is needed to fully access a Salary Survey Report.
When you purchase a Membership Subscription you will be asked to choose a User Name and Password.
Access to the Salary Survey Reports is granted with your User Name and Password at CompetitivePosition.com.
Before making a selection you can use the "Selection Help" form to view the Job Title qualifications, Location towns, table of contents and completion dates of any of the Salary Survey Reports.
You may also use the "Highest Experience Requirement" form to avoid choosing an experience level greater than the highest ever required in the want ads for a particular Job Title.
Use the "Selection" form to choose a Salary Survey Report. Specify a Job Title, a Location and the Number of Years and/or Months of Experience to select and view one Salary Survey Report. Please expect up to 2 minutes of processing time before receiving the Salary Survey Report on your browser.
You may leave the Number of Years and/or Months of Experience empty rather than entering a "0".
If you have purchased a Membership Subscription with a specific quantity of Salary Survey Reports:
If you have purchased a Membership Subscription with unlimited access to the Salary Survey Reports:
Each Salary Survey Report will print from your browser without the dark blue background header section and with only the plain text from the dark blue background footer section. The title of the Salary Survey Report will appear at the top of the first page and the contact information for Whole Root® Economic Research will appear at the end of the last page.
You can save the Salary Survey Report to the hard drive on your computer using the "save" capability of your browser. When the file is reopened in your browser, the Salary Survey Report will print correctly. The graphic images in the header and footer sections will only appear in the browser if you are online.
Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. can NOT guarantee continuous access throughout the duration of the membership subscription to the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports. At least once a week the web site is unavailable while content is updated. Software errors, hardware failures and network outages beyond the control of Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. may temporarily deny access to the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports.
It is recommended that before attending a business presentation or meeting, each Competitive Position® Salary Survey Report should either be saved to a computer or printed. Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. can NOT guarantee access to the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports at a particular point or segment of time on any specific day.
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The Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports are available for information technology careers. The available Job Titles specify hardware and software positions for computer professionals. The positions include project managers, engineers, developers, administrators, support professionals and other specialized computer fields. The software skills encompass programming languages, databases, operating systems, business enterprise and other applications. The hardware skills take account of servers, PC's, main frames, networks, communications and the internet. You can view the list of current Job Titles above.
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.
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Each Competitive Position® Salary Survey Report presents the results for a specific Job Title, Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. A separate Salary Survey Report exists for each particular combination of these job characteristics.
The Salary Survey Report presents the combined results of a Job Title survey and a geographic adjustment ratio. In the Job Title survey the 'best fit' regression equation between the salary offers and the job characteristics is derived. In the geographic adjustment ratio two Location regression equations are similarly derived. The significance of each regression equation is confirmed by several statistical tests. Details about the specific regression equations are fully documented in each Salary Survey Report. The salary information is calculated by the regression equation for the Job Title and the geographic adjustment ratio at the specified Number of Years and/or Months of Experience.
A Salary Survey Report includes the following information:
Expected Salary Offer
and High - Low Range
Current Rate of Inflation per Year
and High - Low Range
1 Year Raise in $ and %
and High - Low Range
Two-Thirds of all Want Ads have a Salary Offer Between:
High - Low
95% of all Want Ads have a Salary Offer Between:
Top - Bottom
Equivalent Experience in an Alternative Position (If Available): qualified candidates for this particular Job Title may also consider a manager, engineer, administrator or support position (whichever, if any, are applicable) with the SAME Expected Salary Offer but a DIFFERENT Number of Years of Required Experience
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Introduction: View the "Introduction" section of Frequently Asked Questions, above.
Your web browser is all that is needed to fully access a Salary Survey Report.
When you purchase a Membership Subscription you will be asked to choose a User Name and Password.
Access to the Salary Survey Reports is granted with your User Name and Password at CompetitivePosition.com.
Before making a selection you can use the "Selection Help" form to view the Job Title qualifications, Location towns, table of contents and completion dates of any of the Salary Survey Reports.
You may also use the "Highest Experience Requirement" form to avoid choosing an experience level greater than the highest ever required in the want ads for a particular Job Title.
Use the "Selection" form to choose a Salary Survey Report. Specify a Job Title, a Location and the Number of Years and/or Months of Experience to select and view one Salary Survey Report.
Please expect up to 2 minutes of processing time before receiving the Salary Survey Report on your browser.
You may leave the Number of Years and/or Months of Experience empty rather than entering a "0".
If you have purchased a Membership Subscription with a specific quantity of Salary Survey Reports:
If you have purchased a Membership Subscription with unlimited access to the Salary Survey Reports:
Each Salary Survey Report will print from your browser without the dark blue background header section and with only the plain text from the dark blue background footer section. The title of the Salary Survey Report will appear at the top of the first page and the contact information for Whole Root® Economic Research will appear at the end of the last page.
You can save the Salary Survey Report to the hard drive on your computer using the "save" capability of your browser. When the file is reopened in your browser, the Salary Survey Report will print correctly. The graphic images in the header and footer sections will only appear in the browser if you are online.
Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. can NOT guarantee continuous access throughout the duration of the membership subscription to the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports. At least once a week the web site is unavailable while content is updated. Software errors, hardware failures and network outages beyond the control of Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. may temporarily deny access to the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports.
It is recommended that before attending a business presentation or meeting, each Competitive Position® Salary Survey Report should either be saved to a computer or printed. Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. can NOT guarantee access to the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports at a particular point or segment of time on any specific day.
FAQ: Return to the place of this question on the list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Introduction: View the "Introduction" section of Frequently Asked Questions, above.
The Membership Subscriptions provide immediate access with a secure online purchase by credit card or check. Each order involves a subscription to select a quantity of Salary Survey Reports with a membership period for online viewing. Membership Subscriptions with 3, 5, 10 or 30 Salary Survey Reports can be shared as long as access to each Salary Survey Report is restricted to only one individual. Membership Subscriptions for 6 Months or 1 Year of Unlimited Access are available according to the number of information technology individuals within a business, school or association. The list of available Membership Subscriptions:
Purchase orders can be submitted online. Licenses for both small and large institutions are available. The Salary Survey Reports are selected and viewed on your web browser for you to print and/or save to your computer.
FAQ: Return to the place of this question on the list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Introduction: View the "Introduction" section of Frequently Asked Questions, above.
The Salary Survey Reports from 1995 through 1998 are available in a Free Archive. Please view them at your leisure with our complements.
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The Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports enable an individual to identify a salary offer for their job. The salary information is specified for a precise Job Title and Location at an exact Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. The salary information is updated quarterly. The salary information is supported with complete statistical documentation for result appraisal and verification. This precision and detail is not found for free, if it can be found at all. Most salary surveys have positions like "Programmer - Level II" for broad ranges of experience. Many salary surveys separate the salary results first by job title, then independently by location and finally solely by experience. These surveys may be of interest to corporate financial analysts or may make an interesting read for an informed professional, but they do not match a salary offer with a job.
The high quality statistical analysis of the Salary Survey Reports facilitates your employment decisions. The Salary Survey Reports analyze the competitive marketplace to reveal the salaries offered for the positions and skills in demand and provide results directly applicable to you. Whole Root® Economic Research makes sophisticated market research accessible to the individual computer professional, manager and human resource professional. Free salary surveys never provide the quality results nor the reviewable statistical documentation. This quality and relevancy can only be found elsewhere in customized surveys from contracted consulting firms and in-house corporate research bureaus.
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Membership Subscriptions: Please view the descriptive list of Membership Subscriptions. Each order involves a subscription to select a quantity of Salary Survey Reports with a membership period for online viewing. Membership Subscriptions with 3, 5, 10 or 30 Salary Survey Reports can be shared as long as access to each Salary Survey Report is restricted to only one individual. Membership Subscriptions for 6 Months or 1 Year of Unlimited Access are available according to the number of information technology individuals within a business, school or association. The list of available Membership Subscriptions:
Get immediate access with a secure online purchase by credit card or check. Purchase orders can also be submitted online. The Salary Survey Reports are selected and viewed on your web browser for you to print and/or save to your computer.
Selection Help: Unsure which Salary Survey Report is right for you? Please view the Job Title and Location Salary Ranges, the Job Title qualifications, Location towns and counties, completion dates and the table of contents of the Salary Survey Reports. Match a desired job to a particular Salary Survey Report.
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Free Archive: The Salary Survey Reports from 1995 through 1998 are available free. Please view them at your leisure with our complements.
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Links: Please view our descriptive links to salary survey, career resource and statistical reference sites.
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Whole Root® Economic Research, Inc. is an independent research company. The Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports are produced in their entirety without the assistance or endorsement of any other public or private organization. All revenue is earned from the sale of the Salary Survey Reports. No financing or revenue is received from any government or private organization outside of the direct sale of the Salary Survey Reports.
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.
All web sites and internet newsgroups that post, list or make available publicly accessible want ads 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.
All corporations, organizations and institutions providing want ads for public access 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.
All corporations, organizations and institutions involved in the design, development, production, distribution and/or application of information technology hardware, software and/or services 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.
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.
The first edition of the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports examined want ads published from June 1 to December 31, 1995. Since January 1997, editions have been available with secure online purchasing. The software -utilized to generate the Salary Survey Reports from raw data into presentation form- was granted a U.S. Patent in September 1999.
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Introduction: View the "Introduction" section of Frequently Asked Questions, above.
Introduction: Unfamiliar with the Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports? Please visit our welcome page to view introductory information, the table of contents of a Salary Survey Report and the available Job Titles, Locations and Years of Experience.
Membership Subscriptions: Please view the descriptive list of Membership Subscriptions. Each order involves a subscription to select a quantity of Salary Survey Reports with a membership period for online viewing. Membership Subscriptions with 3, 5, 10 or 30 Salary Survey Reports can be shared as long as access to each Salary Survey Report is restricted to only one individual. Membership Subscriptions for 6 Months or 1 Year of Unlimited Access are available according to the number of information technology individuals within a business, school or association. The list of available Membership Subscriptions:
Get immediate access with a secure online purchase by credit card or check. Purchase orders can also be submitted online. The Salary Survey Reports are selected and viewed on your web browser for you to print and/or save to your computer.
Selection Help: Unsure which Salary Survey Report is right for you? Please view the Job Title and Location Salary Ranges, the Job Title qualifications, Location towns and counties, completion dates and the table of contents of the Salary Survey Reports. Match a desired job to a particular Salary Survey Report.
Information: Would you like more information about the Salary Survey Reports? Please view detailed descriptions of the Titles, Salary Results, Survey Method, Membership Subscriptions and an Introduction to the Salary Survey Reports.
Email a Question: Prefer a personal response to your question about the Salary Survey Reports? We will kindly return an answer.
Free Archive: The Salary Survey Reports from 1995 through 1998 are available free. Please view them at your leisure with our complements.
Subscriber Access: Already purchased a Membership Subscription? Please proceed to the access site.
Links: Please view our descriptive links to salary survey, career resource and statistical reference sites.
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