CIO salary: Will you switch IT jobs to earn more this year?
It's a good time to be a Fortune 500 CIO. Members of this club saw a 37 percent salary increase during the past two years, according to an analysis for the Wall Street Journal by Korn/Ferry International: Compensation rose from $1.9 million in 2015 to $2.6 million by late 2017.
By comparison, compensation for IT jobs overall grew just three percent on average in 2017, according to Computerworld.
IT salary hotspots exist, of course: DevOps experts remain in demand, with an average salary of $133,378 in the U.S. for people with a DevOps Engineer title, according to the jobs site Glassdoor. That compares to an average salary of $92,172 for all technology professionals in the U.S. (That seems like worthwhile motivation for a DevOps job hunt.)
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Among the IT pros included Dice’s 2018 salary survey who said they were planning on changing jobs this year, 63 percent listed increased compensation as the reason why, making it the top factor. We're wondering, are you among them? Weigh in on our poll, below.
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