IT PAY TAKES A HIT IN 2009

By D.E.Levine

The Information Technology area isn't exempt from the economic problems plaguing North America.

Although IT pay for non-certified skills was reported on the rise since 2004, non-certified pay scales have now dropped 0.5% while pay for certified skills has dropped 1.0%.

Non-certified skills included application development tools, language skills, SAP and enterprise application skills, operating system skills, Web, e-commerce, basic system and networking skills.

Certified skills seeing significant drops included Web-development skills, application-development and programming-language skills, system administration, engineering, and network operating-system skills.