TechTarget recently conducted a year-long survey of IT professionals' 2002 salaries. Some interesting trends emerged. Here are some highlights to pass along from the survey, which displayed results from several hundred storage professionals as well:
Breakdown by average salary, based on years of experience
$82,706 U.S. (for respondents with 30 years' storage experience)
$78,577 U.S. (for respondents with 20 years' storage experience)
$72,833 U.S. (for respondents with 14 years' storage experience)
Breakdown by amount of storage managed
27% manage from 500MB to 1TB
25% manage from 1-3TB
26% manage under 500MB
21% manage over 10TB
19% manage from 3-10TB
Breakdown of background, experience and training
52% have been trained in SAN or NAS subsystems
33% have experience with Fibre Channel and interconnect technologies
35% have experience in mainframe systems support
20% have experience in high performance, parallel or distributed systems
Less than 1% of respondents indicated they had storage-specific certifications
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