While some categories of IT workers got nearly 17 percent raises last year, employees in the most common IT jobs saw pay increases more in line with the 4.2 percent national average. Promotions may color the pay picture. Though the pay levels for these IT jobs appear to be about the same as the national average, the comparison may be distorted somewhat by how quickly IT workers move through job and pay strata, says David Van De Voort, a senior IT pay consultant for Mercer. When the Mercer survey examined total compensation base pay plus short-term incentives such as bonuses the median increases for those 10 most common IT jobs topped out at 8.1 percent.
Hot skills get the hot pay.
While some raises for some categories of IT worker hovered around 5 percent, in other IT job categories Mercer found median increases in base pay of up to 16.7 percent, roughly quadruple the national average. There are lots of ways for your employer to give you more money. You need to be requesting that if you re a legitimate top-performer and if you re not, tough rocks, I guess. William M. Mercer, Incorporated. William M. Mercer, Incorporated.