Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports
Salary Reports for Information Technology Professionals
Salary Results by Position, Skills, Experience and Location
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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.
FAQ: Return to the place of this question on the list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Selecting: View the "Getting the Salary Information you Want" 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".
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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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Please select a Salary Survey Report with the identical Job Title and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience for each Location of interest to you. The salary information in each Salary Survey Report will differ according to the geographic adjustment ratio for the Location. Direct comparisons between Locations can be made.
The Selection Help Form, below, provides information about the Locations of the Salary Survey Reports. Please view the list of cities, counties, municipalities, parishes, towns and other geographical entities of each Location.
The Salary Survey Reports are available for locations in the United States of America. Each Location is defined by a list of cities, counties, municipalities, parishes, towns and other geographical entities. The names on this list are stated explicitly in or are within the boundaries of the metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The Salary Survey Reports can be analyzed in association with other statistical reports that conform with these metropolitan statistical areas. For instance, the Statistical Abstract of the United States includes a table of cost of living data for the same metropolitan statistical areas.
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A résumé may overlap several Job Titles of the Salary Survey Reports. Please browse the qualifications for each Job Title that interests you in the Selection Help Form, below. Compare the positions and hardware/software skills of the Job Titles with your résumé to find matching subsets of your qualifications. These are the jobs in highest demand that you are qualified for. Estimate your direct experience with each Job Title. Please select each Salary Survey Report by the Job Title and the corresponding Number of Years and/or Months of Experience.
To find the Salary Survey Report that's right for you please use this Selection Help Form to view: the Job Title and Location Salary Ranges, the detailed list of qualifications of each Job Title; the counties and towns included in each Location; the completion date; and, the specific table of contents of each Salary Survey Report.
The qualifications of the Job Title, the towns and counties of the Location, and the Completion Dates are presented as they appear in the Salary Survey Report. An explanatory table-of-contents outlines the complete Salary Survey Report available with a Membership Subscription.
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The Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports are based on want ads listed in publicly available sources such as career web sites and internet newsgroups. 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 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.
One or more additional qualifications may be listed in some of the want ads of a Job Title. If a significant number of want ads of a Job Title list the same additional qualification, then it's influence on the salary offer is tested. A separate Salary Survey Report is created when a difference in the salary offer with the additional qualification is statistically significant. The Salary Survey Report is available as the original Job Title set for the additional qualification.
Please select a Salary Survey Report with the identical Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience for the original Job Title and each of the additional qualifications of interest to you. The salary information in each Salary Survey Report will differ according to the market value of the additional qualification. Direct comparisons between the original and augmented Job Title can be made.
The Selection Help Form, above, provides information about the Job Titles of the Salary Survey Reports. Each of the original Job Titles is followed by a list of the available additional qualifications.
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Each Salary Survey Report presents both the average and high-low range of salary offers found in the job market for a particular Job Title, Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. This information can be utilized to assess above average salary offers.
The Expected Salary Offer, the Current Rate of Inflation per Year and the Raise in Salary Offer with One More Year of Experience are all presented with their 95% Probability Range. In each case, there is a 95% probability that the salary offer for the entire job market lies within this range. The highest salary offer in this range is the most liberal estimate of what exists in the job market.
The Extreme Limits of a Salary Offer indicate the high and low salary offers that can be found in the want ads for a particular Job Title, Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. Only One-Sixth (16%) of the want ads in the entire job market state a salary offer greater than the Two-Thirds High Salary Offer. Only 2.5% of want ads in the entire job market state a salary offer greater than the 95% Top Salary Offer.
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Each Salary Survey Report presents both the average and high-low range of salary offers found in the job market for a particular Job Title, Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. This information can be utilized to assess below average salary offers.
The Expected Salary Offer, the Current Rate of Inflation per Year and the Raise in Salary Offer with One More Year of Experience are all presented with their 95% Probability Range. In each case, there is a 95% probability that the salary offer for the entire job market lies within this range. The lowest salary offer in this range is the most conservative estimate of what exists in the job market.
The Extreme Limits of a Salary Offer indicate the high and low salary offers that can be found in the want ads for a particular Job Title, Location and Number of Years and/or Months of Experience. Only One-Sixth (16%) of the want ads in the entire job market state a salary offer less than the Two-Thirds Low Salary Offer. Only 2.5% of want ads in the entire job market state a salary offer less than the 95% Bottom Salary Offer.
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For many Job Titles there exists a higher, or lower, grade position for the same hardware/software skills. There are support, administrator and engineer positions for systems professionals as well as project leaders for most types of skills. It can be important to know how experience at one grade transfers into another grade. For instance a support professional may want to know how many years and months of support experience is expected before qualifying as an entry level administrator.
A straight forward economic solution to this problem is taken: equal salary means equal qualification. Different grades of positions with the same hardware/software skills are compared at the identical expected salary offer to find the equivalent Number of Years and/or Months of Experience from one grade to the other. When applicable a Salary Survey Report presents the experience level in each of the other position grades that results in the same expected salary offer. Please be aware that position mobility may require additional training and skills as well as, or instead of, a specific level of equivalent experience.
You can find out whether a Job Title includes an Equivalent Experience number for a specific alternative position in the Selection Help Form, above.
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For many Job Titles there exists a higher, or lower, grade position for the same hardware/software skills. There are support, administrator and engineer positions for systems professionals as well as project leaders for most types of skills. It can be important to know how experience at one grade transfers into another grade. For instance a support professional may want to know how many years and months of support experience is expected before qualifying as an entry level administrator.
A straight forward economic solution to this problem is taken: equal salary means equal qualification. Different grades of positions with the same hardware/software skills are compared at the identical expected salary offer to find the equivalent Number of Years and/or Months of Experience from one grade to the other. When applicable a Salary Survey Report presents the experience level in each of the other position grades that results in the same expected salary offer. Please be aware that position mobility may require additional training and skills as well as, or instead of, a specific level of equivalent experience.
You can find out whether a Job Title includes an Equivalent Experience number for a specific alternative position in the Selection Help Form, above.
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The Salary Survey Reports meet the guidelines for a survey that establishes the prevailing wage for an H1-B Visa.
The US Department of Labor's wage survey guidelines for Foreign Labor Certification state:
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