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IT Professionals See Salary Increase but Job Security Remains Top Concern

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A new survey from Dice shows that IT salaries increased 4.6 percent in 2008 for an average annual pay of $78,035. But, the Dice study also found that job security concerns, fewer pay increases, keeping skills simplified and canceled projects remain the top worry for IT professionals as they head into 2009. While the U.S. recession has hit Wall Road the toughest, those IT professionals working in the banking and financial services industry collected an average annual salary of $87,000, according to Dice.
– IT professionals saw their average annual salaries
increase 4.6 percent in 2008, but concerns about keeping IT skills up-to-date
and job security remain top priorities bearing into 2009, according to a new
Dice survey released this week.
The 2008-09 Annual Salary Survey, which Dice
released Jan…