Tech workers who have so far escaped layoffs may curse their luck when they read the results of a new survey by People3, part of the Gartner Consulting group in Stamford, Conn. People3’s 2001 IT Market Compensation Study found that workloads for IT departments are expected to increase 50 percent by 2005.
Median salaries for all IT staff increased 1.8 percent to $62,100 this year from last, and system programmers saw the biggest gains, 7.1 percent.
Another study, this one by RHI consulting in Menlo Park, Calif., suggest that overworked techies shouldn’t expect relief soon. A survey of 1,400 chief information officers across the country showed 15 percent intend to add staff and 4 percent to reduce staff in the first quarter of 2002–the lowest net increase in the survey’s seven-year history.
RHI boss Katharine Spencer Lee said the safest techies are those “whose work history includes demonstrated contributions to the bottom line.”
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