Annual Salary increments query

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morpheus

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Hi all,

This is a quick question...

Firstly, for anyone working as a permanent employee in the IT sector:
Working in IT, 7 years experience , 4 in VB6 + SQL and most recent 3 in ASP.NET + SQL am i earning a good wage for my experience if my salary is 39888?

Secondly:
If employed by my current employer since sept 2004 earning €33000 and its now 2007 and (most recent payrise) meant earning €39888, would that increase be just in line with inflation, or is it more/less, how do I find out?

regards etc
 
I am not an authority to speak on IT salaries, but here's my opinion:

1. Sounds below average to me for someone with 7 yrs experience. For example, a friend in IT is earning Eur 63k after 10 yrs.

2. This shows an average annual increase of 6-7%. This does exceed inflation, but not by a whole lot. I would expect your salary to be increasing at a higher rate to take account of your increasing experience.
 
Thanks for the reply, does anyone know where or how I can work out the annual inflation increases relative to salaries from 2004 - 2007/8 ?
 
Is your salry tied in ot the national wage agreements? If so, you should know from reading them at what percentage your wage increased over the past few years. I'd say the CSO website will give you the infaltion figures you want.
 
What do you 'do' in IT ? VB6 & SQL....are you a strong developer or just maintaining code ?

How strong is your SQL and is it in UDB or some other?

these questions need to be answered along with the location for a proper answer to be given.
 
Sorry to hijack your query but im based in limerick and work for an insurance company as a trainer.
After 8 years i earn 25,000 with annual salary increments of 3 / 3.5%. Eddie Hobbs reckons the average industrial wage is €30k!!! Is that figure for Dublin based people only (i dont have a degree by the way).
Thanks
 
I am often amazed about the 'average annual salary of 30k'. I imagine this must be for Dublin.

I find that employers are very specific about qualifications/experience. Also, they will not pay out 35k and 40k lightly. They generally expect an employee to take a lot of responsibility, and work over and above the 40 hrs for a good salary. It is quite difficult to get jobs which will pay over 30k for a normal 40hour week with little responsibility.

I am a newly qualified accountant. I have a business degree and 13 yrs experience of financial services/accounts assistant work. I am on 30K. However, I cannot get away with doing just 40 hrs a week. There is a lot of work to do, and sometimes I need to do 45 hrs a week (no overtime pay) to get all the work done. I know I could get 35k or 40k for a more senior role, but I think it would be extra stress and work might take over my life.

I find that the only way to get a good salary, is to take on more responsibility, go for senior jobs, and be prepared to work a lot more than the 40 hrs a week.
 
I have 3 years of strong experienced development with .NET 1.1 and 2.0 and v good experience of SQL Server 2000 / 2005. I work in private sector in north dublin city, my company has been involved with major software development for 3 major banks / mortgage lenders over the last 3 years. we have a mixture of permys (like me) and contractors (3+ month contracts) who get 300+ per day.
 
buzybee said:
I find that the only way to get a good salary, is to take on more responsibility, go for senior jobs, and be prepared to work a lot more than the 40 hrs a week.
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What about knowledge and expierence? I find the former the most valuable.
 
morpheus said:
7 years experience , 4 in VB6 + SQL and most recent 3 in ASP.NET + SQL - I have 3 years of strong experienced development with .NET 1.1 and 2.0 and v good experience of SQL Server 2000 / 2005.
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I the last few months I have been getting CV emails (spam) from a recruitment company offering employees with the same level of experience as you (VB, SQL, .NET etc), mainly Polish, the odd Irish and looking for salaries of 50 to 55k.


INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SURVEY 2006 : http://www.finfacts.com/Private/isl/it.htm


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For 7 years experience, that sounds lowish to me. As others have said, we would need to know what type of work you do - can you work unsupervised, write specs, deal with end-users/business analysts or are you given work by a more senior developer and just code? The [broken link removed] gives a range of 30,000-55,000 for .NET/SQL Server.
 
Personally I think the average industrial wages surveys are very distorted by the top earners. I would say if you removed the top and bottom 5% of people surveyed you get a more realistic average survey from the 80% of people left.

I work in IT and I would say that salaries range a lot depending on a lot a factors. The scale for someone with 3-5yrs of decent experience, with a degree seems to be about 30-60k. At the end of the day its not what you are worth but what you can get. You'll only know this when you try and get it. If your own company won't give it to you, apply for other jobs and see if you get any offers better than where you are. Maybe you'll get better offers, maybe you won't.

Its always a good test to do every so often to hit the jobs market and see what you are worth.
 
Between September 2004 and May 2007 the cost of living increased by 10.68%. Your salary increased by 20.87%. Therefore you are doing better than inflation. However, personally, esp in a Dublin context, I would regard your salary as not being great.

See [broken link removed] second link for inflation details by month.
 
aircobra19 said:
I would say if you removed the top and bottom 5% of people surveyed you get a more realistic average survey from the 80% of people left.
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It's the 10% that disappeared (possibly to become magicians?!?) that I want to know about!


As many of the previous posters have said, what salary you recieve is based on many different factors. Qualifications, experience, ability, potential, responsibilities etc. etc.

I know plenty of people who changed from high paying to far lower paying jobs in order to reduce stress/overtime and increase quality of life. Trying to compare pay where the terms may be very different is a hugely difficult task. If you're not happy with the level of pay you recieve for the level of work you do, then you should stand your ground with your employer or look at other positions. If, however, you are happy with your job and the pay you recieve, I'd tend to disregard the "average" amounts which are so commonly thrown around.
 
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