2008/08/05

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How much do salaries differ for the top positions in IT if you work for a small or medium business versus a large corporation?

Janco Associates has just released its mid-year IT compensation study. Part of the study focuses on six-figure IT salaries and how they differ depending on the size of the organization.

Janco divides the data into six categories:

  • IT Leaders - Large firms
  • Mid-management - Large firms
  • Staff positions - Large firms
  • IT management - SMBs
  • Mid-management - SMBs
  • IT staff - SMBs

Here’s how the six-figure salaries for IT staff in large corporations differed from their counterparts in SMBs:


Large corporations SMBs
Programmer/analyst $172,089 $129,641
Senior Network Specialist $165,013 $146,562
Disaster Recovery Coordinator $152,696 $102,598
Software Engineer $135,279 $171,374
Database Specialist $124,791 $125,631
Systems Support Specialist $103,848 $108,685

It’s interesting that the software engineer and system support specialists actually make more money in the smaller organizations. -- SMEs needs talents who are more creative, productive to creat new technology/platforms or tech products, which can leads a unique selling point or even core competance of new tech SMEs. Considering such a potential profit, why not invest more on these talents?



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