The upshot of this wretched economy is that compensation is beginning to decline as people take just about any position to stay employed. For example, in information technology overall, national starting salaries are expected to decline by an average of 1.3 percent, according to a survey by Robert Half International, a staffing company.
Within that, one promising job is as a network administrators, especially now that cloud computing, voice over Internet protocol and software as service make the job more complicated. Network administrators can expect starting salaries in the range of $54,500 to $80,250. Information systems security management is also big, with top pay hitting $130,750. Systems engineers are still being hired to maintain complex infrastructures. Their pay ranges from $64,250 to $93,250, the survey said.
Another declining group is administrative and office support. Pay in that category is declining by 2.2 percent next year, the survey shows. Best job in that category is also a tough one to get -- executive assistant. Executive assistants who can support multiple managers and adapt readily to change can earn as much as $47,000. Medical records clerks and customer service representatives are also showing salary increases, despite the general decline in the category, with top pay in those two jobs between $30,750 and $31,500.
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I don't know what planet the repoter is living on but salaries have been declining for 2 decades. Now, companies are deferring salary increase which is the same as a pay cut. They're also completely eliminating 401K matching contributions, cutting their health care contributions, and passing phone and internet cost to home based workers. IT support jobs are all being outsourced to India. These IT jobs are all going away.— MikeP- Outsourcing has and will continue to obliterate the IT job market. Eventually it will get so bad that you will have IT people competing for jobs at fast food places.— The Baron
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