Infinity Consulting Solutions, a staffing and recruiting firm, yesterday released its 2018 Salary Guide for the information technology (IT) sector. The guide determines salary ranges based on placements, market trends and anticipated trends for the year ahead.
"In this extremely competitive employment landscape, hiring managers seek strong guidance, backed by reliable data, to attract and retain the highly skilled employees they need to support continued growth," says Jeff Pelliccio, director of marketing at ICS. "We have the insight and the data, which we are offering to our clients and those interested in a better understanding of 2018 staffing issues in the IT, cybersecurity and programming sectors."
According to ICS, top paying IT salary categories include:
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Executives
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Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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$169,300 - $259,200
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
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$168,900 - $252, 400
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Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
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$155,200 - $218,400
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VP of Engineering
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$155,500 - $212,400
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VP of Information Technology
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$162,500 - $199,700
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Project Management Office (PMO)
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Director of PMO
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$149,700 - $182,100
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Program Manager
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$108,000 - $131,600
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Technical Project Manager
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$ 98,100 - $122,000
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Agile Project Manager
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$100,700 - $121,200
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Infrastructure Project Manager
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$ 91,400 - $120,500
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Tech Support/Systems
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Director of Information Technology
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$126,900 - $159,800
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Virtualization Engineer
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$ 88,300 - $118,600
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Middleware Engineer
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$ 96,500 - $116,000
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Systems Engineer
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$ 84,600 - $113,000
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Citrix Engineer
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$ 82,000 - $ 96,000
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Database Admin/Development
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Data Architect
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$115,700 - $144,100
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Oracle DBA
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$ 90,400 - $116,100
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MYSQL DBA
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$ 84,900 - $113,900
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Database Engineer
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$ 86,700 - $110,200
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Data Warehouse Analyst
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$ 77,000 - $100,000
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Networking
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Network Architect
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$120,900 - $143,900
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Wireless Network Engineer
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$ 90,600 - $125,700
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Network Voice Engineer
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$ 96,900 - $121,200
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Network Engineer
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$ 96,000 - $118,000
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NOC Manager
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$ 93,000 - $116,6000
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Other Top Salaries
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Business Intelligence Architect
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$105,700 - $139,900
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DevOps Manager
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$ 99,500 - $137,200
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Information Security Manager
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$113,500 - $133,900
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Senior Cyber Security Analyst
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$110,000 - $131,000
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Data Scientist
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$ 97,500 - $128,400
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