IT Salary Report: How Do You Stack Up?

Surprising no one, the Dice salary report finds that the higher a tech worker's salary, the higher their satisfaction level. Is that because happier workers do a better job, and therefore earn more, or is it because without a sufficient salary, a worker can’t be happy? The truth may lie somewhere in between, but at any rate this data point probably isn’t IT specific.

“This has less to do with IT and more to do with that fact that, the people earning less are probably more likely to think they’re not being fairly paid, so that’s going to hurt their satisfaction level,” Melland says.

Average IT Salary by Level of Satisfaction, 2006

(The middle number indicates what percentage of workers fall into that category.)

Very satisfied: (14%) $91,234

Somewhat satisfied: (39%) $80,046

Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied: (14%) $70,497

Somewhat dissatisfied: (21%) $62,845

Very dissatisfied: (11%) $50,180

(Salary data courtesy of Dice.)

View IT salary figures for the following categories:

Salary by IT specialty: CRM, Java, ERP, etc.

Salary by region, from Silicon Valley to New York

Salary by industry, from banking to telecom to e-commerce

Salary by years of experience

Salary by level of satisfaction

The male-female salary gender gap