Brain-drain factor on hold in IT sector

Ok, so these are the facts? :confused:

I always wonder how they can claim that a survey done with a sub-group (only 3000 in this case!) is representative of the whole?
 
I dont know who they interviewed.... But that is deffinately not the case in the industry... Espeicially the so called hot spots i.e. Software Architects!!!
 
ettebrute. For statistical purposes getting the information of the whole population is not a viable option.
There are very fixed formulae's that one can use to determine the base or minimum amount of ppl to interview to get results like this.

a 3000 person report is not bad considering how many IT professionals there are out there in za.
 
armitage, maybe correct, but then they should include the percentage that the interviewed people are of the whole! At least that will give a better feel! I always learned in Statistics that I had to give the % probability with every answer, which they neglect to do!
 
The average monthly salary in the information technology (IT) sector fell from R23,523 in 2004 to R22,021 last year, an indication that brain drain in the sector may be a thing of the past, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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The -average- is R22k per month? I must be getting ripped off majorly... To get to such an -average- it means ALOT of people are getting R40k+ to compensate for the large quantity of IT people who only gets in the R5k-R15k range (which if you look in the IT job offerings seem to be general range you will get for CONTRACT work) . What kinds of IT people are this survey talking about?

I have an engineering degree and are in IT, i get nowhere near the -AVERAGE- ...am i in the wrong company? Only people i know getting that [and above] are managers and they are not really actually doing IT per-se they are 'managing'

Also how does the lowering of the 'average' salary equate to 'stopping the braindrain'. My first thought was some Telkom CIO got his bonus cut in half, thus causing the ENTIRE salary average of the country to drop . Can also mean they are hiring MORE programmers/actual people who DO something in IT and less managers [who get huge salaries and do nothing]. Or merely cheap arse companies not paying their IT personel anymore because their system was stable last year....

At executive management level, chief information officers reported the highest median of R47,500 a month, leaving behind chief executive officers, who reported a median of slightly more than R34,000. At operational management level, chief architects topped the list, with a monthly median of R31,000. At staff level, the hottest jobs according to the survey were software architects, who earned between R30,000 and R100,000 a month. Help-desk specialists, technicians and call-centre specialists were the least-paid jobs in the sector, earning about R9,000 a month.
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I get the impression that the survey was based on polling a bunch of IT managers/executives. We all know what is happening all over the country, lots of chiefs ...no indians. It's like grouping municipality managers under "engineers" because they are managing a group of engineers [whom they forgot to hire] ....and then polling THEM to determine whether there are a shortage of skills....guess what their answer will be.
 
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