His compensation has generally increased with each year of seniority, but he can expect compensation to level off if he remains working for more than 30 years. Ten percent of the respondents are women . Women are slightly younger and less experienced than male IT professionals and have less supervisory responsibility. Even when women and men with equivalent responsibilities are compared, however, the average compensation among women is generally lower than among men. Women have seen their compensation increase 11 percent over the past two years, the same as men.
Women are more likely to have been promoted or to have changed jobs than men.
Dollar responsibility and supervisory responsibility stand out as important benchmarks of IT compensation. As dollar and supervisory duties increase, so does income. Additionally, these two criteria account for the greatest variation of average income of all the criteria tested, suggesting that these criteria offer gateways to increased compensation. Other important indicators of compensation include company size and job title. Fifty-eight percent of survey participants receive bonuses as part of annual compensation.