IT Salaries: experience and training

Correlation does not equal causation. I would suggest that it may also be down to the fact that companies that are willing to invest in the future of their employees could also pay them a more competitive salary so as not to lose their investment. Odds are that these companies are also your corporates, with the funds available to pay the larger salaries. I'd like to see some statistical analysis done on these figures to determine the influence of the above factors, amongst others.
 
Again this is an American survey and I am quite convinced that the IT landscape in SA is much different. There is a scarcity of skills so companies will pay for the skill even if it's not trained. And then there is AA to consider...
 
Messugga said:
Correlation does not equal causation. I would suggest that it may also be down to the fact that companies that are willing to invest in the future of their employees could also pay them a more competitive salary so as not to lose their investment. Odds are that these companies are also your corporates, with the funds available to pay the larger salaries. I'd like to see some statistical analysis done on these figures to determine the influence of the above factors, amongst others.
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You have a very valid point. But being in IT, you HAVE to keep learning. Whether via a course or via self study.
 
Knersus said:
Again this is an American survey and I am quite convinced that the IT landscape in SA is much different. There is a scarcity of skills so companies will pay for the skill even if it's not trained. And then there is AA to consider...
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What (s)he said.
Also zamicro has a point, you have to train, irregardless of whether it formal or not.
 
Lots of articles about IT salaries these days...

Maybe this is a hint to someone? :D
 
To be honest, tired of seeing 'IT Salaries' articles. Getting kind of boring and uninteresting.
 
The difference in salary is not as large as I would expect, IT courses can be incredibly expensive. Would love more detail around the types of training vs the increase
 
zamicro said:
You have a very valid point. But being in IT, you HAVE to keep learning. Whether via a course or via self study.
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Self study doesn't qualify as training, however. That being said, I absolutely agree that you need to keep yourself up to date. The most useless IT person is an outdated IT person. Except if he's adept at some obsolete technology that nobody else knows/understands and huge institutions like banks use excessively *cough*COBOL*cough*
 
Anyone can become an IT professional in 5 years, it's the reason experience is so valued in the industry.
 
Messugga said:
Self study doesn't qualify as training, however. That being said, I absolutely agree that you need to keep yourself up to date. The most useless IT person is an outdated IT person. Except if he's adept at some obsolete technology that nobody else knows/understands and huge institutions like banks use excessively *cough*COBOL*cough*
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How dare you use the *cough*C*cough*cough*COBOL*cough* word :sick:
 
I would like to see an article like this that has a SA survey for a change. This is not America so it has no relevance to us? What's the point of it being posted here?
 
Problem is some of the product/technology training can only be done via the company either due to special invite or cost and sadly most companies don't pay any attention to training. Too often I see guys trying to figure how a product works because they have to, it's in fact my speciality, get given new products on a weekly basis with zero training and expected to get it working...
 
Wonder how many people really have over 26 years or even 15 years experience. Computers only became mainstream in the mid 90's. So that's only around 15 years ago. Plus in the years 1995-2000 most companies only had one or two PC's for all their staff to share. People had to stand in a que to use it for printing/typing documents...lol.
 
SaiyanZ said:
Wonder how many people really have over 26 years or even 15 years experience. Computers only became mainstream in the mid 90's. So that's only around 15 years ago. Plus in the years 1995-2000 most companies only had one or two PC's for all their staff to share. People had to stand in a que to use it for printing/typing documents...lol.
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You'd be surprised, I know guys that worked with punch cards...
 
SaiyanZ said:
Wonder how many people really have over 26 years or even 15 years experience. Computers only became mainstream in the mid 90's. So that's only around 15 years ago. Plus in the years 1995-2000 most companies only had one or two PC's for all their staff to share. People had to stand in a que to use it for printing/typing documents...lol.
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Ever heard of mainframes (+-1960)? Speech recognition was already available in 1971.
 
Spooner said:
I would like to see an article like this that has a SA survey for a change. This is not America so it has no relevance to us? What's the point of it being posted here?
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Agreed, a South African survey on this would be much more relvant to all of us!
 
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