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Viva Lost Wages - Wages up last year: According to a survey, salaries for IT pros jumped an average of $234 last year, or $19.50 a month. Now you can order imported beer instead of domestic, upgrade your cell phone plan, and play those nickel slots till you drop. Go crazy -- you deserve it.

Moving average of IT job market growth
A robust hiring trend for IT Professionals - the recovery is slowing however, there are a number of jobs unfilled by IT Pros. The primary culprit is the lack of qualified individuals to fill the open positions. In our opinion, the IT Job Market is currently at no growth!
Unfilled IT Jobs

IT Job Market Openings

Based on BLS data analyzed by Janco in the first 3 quarters of 2022 an average of 200K IT jobs remained unfilled due to a lack of qualified individuals. In 2023 the number of unfilled jobs has fallen to around 100K.

The number of unfilled jobs trend line is down as the economy softens and CIOs and CFOs look to control costs and eliminate requisitions for positions that cannot be filled. There was a major pullback of the number of excess jobs for IT Pros occurred in December - layoffs have impact on number of unfilled jobs available for IT Professionals.

The current year's salary data is on the plus side.

Mean IT salaries
Updated with the latest data

Median salary for IT Professionals now is over $90,000.

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