Competitive Position® Salary Survey Reports
Salary Reports for Information Technology Professionals
Salary Results by Position, Skills, Experience and Location
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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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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 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.
The Qualifications section of a Salary Survey Report provides information about the required position and hardware/software skills of a Job Title. Each qualification is listed with a set of keywords that refer to the same skill, describe one aspect of the skill or name a more exact facet of the skill. For example the qualification, "Developer", refers to a set of position, work activity and certification keywords: analyst, programmer, software developer, automate, code, design, develop, enhance, modify, program, update, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer or Sun Certified Java Programmer.
The keywords either explicitly cite or directly imply the qualification. To illustrate, the qualification "Microsoft Windows2000 or WindowsNT Server" is explicitly cited by the phrase "WindowsNT Server" and directly implied by the term "Back Office". Likewise, the qualification "Java" is directly implied by the phrase "Java Naming and Directory Interface" or "JNDI". Effort has been made to list all of the keywords that explicitly cite or directly imply a qualification. A particular skill may be included both in a general and a more detailed qualification. For instance, the skill "AIX" is included both in the "UNIX" qualification and the "AIX UNIX" qualification. More precise Job Titles utilize more exact and restricted sets of keywords.
Please use the Selection Help Form, above, to find the appropriate Job Titles for your Membership Subscription. Choose a Job Title and view its qualification keywords. Browse through the Job Title qualifications searching for the keywords that would be found in a job description of your résumé, job vacancy, want ad or current job. Match the principle skills of your job description to the qualifications of a Job Title.
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.
The Selection Help Form, on this page above, 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 based on two types of 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 want ad sources of the Job Title and Location salary surveys are fully documented. Each Salary Survey Report presents: the names of the career web site and internet newsgroup sources; the beginning and end dates of the research; and, the number of want ads statistically analyzed.
The complete Salary Survey Reports are statistically updated with newly posted want ads every quarter. The Selection Help Form, on this page above, provides Completion Dates and other information about the want ad sources of each Salary Survey Report.
Expected Salary Offers
Raise in Salary Offer with One More Year of Experience
Extreme Limits of a Salary Offer
Experience Requirements
Qualifications
Survey Information and Statistical Documentation
If salary inflation, or deflation, is statistically significant for a Job Title then the current rate of inflation per year and its high and low range is included in the Salary Survey Report. Salary inflation occurs when the expected salary offer for each experience level is greater at the end than at the start date of the salary survey. If the start date has the highest expected salary offers then deflation exists. If expected salary offers have remained constant throughout the survey period, the Salary Survey Report does not include an inflation section. For most Job Titles three years pass between the start and end dates of the survey.
Salary inflation, or deflation, for a particular set of qualifications may be a reflection of advances in computer technology and changes in hardware/software utilization relative to training and career adjustments of computer professionals. Change in the cost of living is another factor in salary inflation. The Selection Help Form, on this page above, provides information about whether an inflation section is included in a Salary Survey Report.
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.
The Selection Help Form, on this page above, provides information about whether an Equivalent Experience section is included in a Salary Survey Report.
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