Aunque los sectores de tecnología y TI de EE. UU. Experimentaron despidos significativos a mediados de 2020 debido a la pandemia de COVID-19, los sectores han recuperado la mayoría de los empleos perdidos. Mejor aún, los salarios en realidad aumentaron un 3.6% en 2020, según el informe técnico de salarios de 2021 del sitio de trabajo Dice.com, y continuarán haciéndolo en 2021.
But salary growth amounted to just 52% of the tech employees surveyed; 35% saw stable wages and the rest (13%) experienced drops. Those who saw the declines cited a change of employer, company-wide layoffs or pay cuts as the main causes - all the effects of the pandemic.
Regional wage trends
Wages in California's Silicon Valley and Boston were up 2,4%, in line with the national average. But they have exploded in several technological poles:
- Charlotte, North Carolina, saw her salary increase 13.8% to € 99,691.
- Orlando was up 13,4% to $ 88.598.
- New York was up 11,6% to $ 114.274.
- Austin, Texas was up 9,7% to € 104,344.
- Philadelphia rose 9.3% to € 96,512.
Detroit, Phoenix, Houston, Minneapolis and the Baltimore-Washington metro have seen wage increases of more than 5%. Portland, Oregon, saw a 4.6% drop in wages to €98.026, while Seattle saw a 2.6% drop in wages to €106.723. Tampa was down 11% at €87,809, Columbus, OH, was down 0,6% at €91,483, and Chicago was down 0,1% at €94,581. Dice notes that the Columbus survey sample had fewer than 100 respondents, so the data is not statistically valid, but is included to ensure continuity with prior years' reporting. Looking at the survey results by state, Maryland had the strongest wage growth: an increase of 13.1% to €109,886, followed by Wisconsin with 9.6% to €97,322 and North Carolina. North 9.5% at €97,739. New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana, Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Colorado, and Virginia saw average wage increases of 5% or more. Washington state saw the biggest drop, 4.4% to €103,995, followed by Missouri 1.8% to €87,460, Oregon 0.6% to €97,317 and l'Illinois 0.5% to €93,385. No other state has experienced a decline. Dice notes that the survey contained enough statistically significant data for 25 states.
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Dice.com Average Technician Salaries by Technology Pole.
Evolution of wages by occupation
Dice's survey shows that cybersecurity analysts earned the highest salary increases, up 16,3% to $103.106. Dice noted that these less-experienced positions saw much larger salary increases than highly-skilled cybersecurity engineers (up 4,3% to €134,430), suggesting that a shortage of cybersecurity candidates was driving up salaries for the junior staff. Support engineers were in second place, up 8,2% to €68,651, followed by cloud engineers, up 6,3% to €136,479, and business analysts, an increase of 5% to €3. The survey showed that data scientists and DevOps engineers saw their salaries increase by more than 96,633%, but neither group had enough respondents to be statistically valid. The professions that saw pay cuts were traditional IT roles. Database administrators saw salaries fall 10% to €4,9, followed by help desk technicians down 99,038% to €4, IT managers down 51,553% to €1,7 and managers products were down 143,416% at €0,6. The survey showed that mainframe programmer salaries dropped 12,584%, but there were not enough respondents to be statistically valid.
Evolution of wages by skill
Among the 25 skills with the highest average salaries, those with the highest salary increases were for messaging broker RabbitMQ (up 10.1% to €136,151); Vagrant for the management of the virtual environment (up to 8,5% up to €123,615); IA (up 7,2% up to €131.907); natural language processing (up 4,8% to €131,542); and the OmniGraffle diagramming tool (up 4,6% to €124,074). Among the 25 skills with the highest average salaries, the skills that saw the largest salary decreases were SAP HANA (down 7,1% to €124,918); the Go language (down 6.1% to €128,001); and Apache Kafka for distributed messaging (down 4,3% to €128,971). For programmers, the top five salaries were for people with experience in TensorFlow, the Go language, Scala, KornShell, and Perl, all of which exceeded $122.000. But with the exception of Perl, all of those languages, and most others, took a pay cut in 2020. Of the 25 languages studied, only 10 showed pay increases. The top languages in terms of salary growth are Tcl (+7,8%), Matlab (+6,2%), Fortran (+5,2%), Perl (3,9%) and Transact-SQL (+3 , 4%).
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Dice.com Average Technician Salaries by Technology Pole.