Certification Magazine - December 2007 - (Page 21) You can read our past Salary Survey coverage through CertScope! Just run a search for ‘salary’ to read more than 166 CertMag articles on the subject, and link to 134 Web sites covering salary concerns in general. Thank You! We would like to thank the following companies and organizations for helping promote this year’s CertMag Salary Survey. Their assistance helped make possible this study of the effects of certification on IT salaries globally. We’d like to start a dialogue about the Salary Survey with you, our readers. So, as you read this special section, head over to our Salary Survey forum discussion board (www.certmag.com/salaryforum) to share your thoughts or perhaps even get some tips on how to revise your compensation to be in line with these numbers. 8 – Daniel Margolis, dmargolis@certmag.com Identifying You: The IT Pro So, according to the CertMag 2007 Salary Survey, who are you? Big surprise — most of you are men (about 90 percent). For the most part, you’re a relatively young group. The majority of you are younger than 40, with the highest percentage (about 27 percent) in the 25-to-29 age range, followed by about 23 percent of you in the 30-to34 range. Only about 10 percent of you are younger than 24. Educationally speaking, about 33 percent of you hold a bachelor’s degree and about 21 percent have a master’s degree. Ten percent have received some technical training (no college degree), and about 13 percent of you have earned a high school diploma. You’re a veritable United Nations of IT professionals, with respondents from 195 countries, ranging from Austria and Zimbabwe to Chile and Mongolia. Once again, the majority of respondents to the Salary Survey live outside the United States, but the largest single country remains the United States, with 9,114 respondents out of 35,066, or about 37 percent. The next-highest percentage of respondents was India, with 11.6 percent, followed by the United Kingdom at 4.4 percent and Canada with 4 percent. For those who do live in North America, the highest percentage of you are in California, with 9.4 percent, followed by Texas (7.6 percent). Ontario, Canada, comes in third, with 5.1 percent. Virginia follows (4.8 percent), then Florida (4.4 percent) and Illinois (4.3 percent). New York rounds out the 4 percent range with 4.2 percent. According to the Salary Survey, about 94 percent of you are certified in a technical field, with many of you receiving your first certification in the last three years. Nearly 15 percent of you received your first certification in 2007, and about 60 percent of you received your first cert in the last five years. The average number of certifications you hold stayed relatively consistent in the past year, with just a slight bump upward from 3.04 in 2006 to 3.31 in 2007. The largest percentage of you (about 24 percent) holds two certifications. Apple Brocade Cisco Citrix CompTIA CWNP Kaplan Nortel Novell Oracle Pearson Prosoft ECCouncil EMC HDI Hitachi HP IBM ISACA Red Hat SANS SAS Sox Institute The Training Associates http://www.certmag.com http://www.certmag.com/salaryforum http://www.certmag.com
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