On 02/10/2012 03:55 PM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/10/linux-popularity-sparks-salary-jump/tab/print/ > > Looking forward to viewing the full results. The last survey Dice released > showed relatively flat demand. Does this jive with what anyone is seeing? > Anyone get a larger than normal raise in 2012, or a raise at all? Anyone get > any recent offers that significantly lifted their salaries? > > I've talked to a few recruiters who have indicated recent salary offers for > experienced Linux professionals have jumped 20-30%. I've not seen it > personally, and I'm not at all inclined to believe what a recruiter tells me > about salaries. My experience has been that the last few hold outs who were > paying their IT departments poorly had to bring them to parity with the > market. Not so much a raise as it is a flattening out of the industry. > > Curious what experiences, if any, people have had. > > -Ryan I have seen the 20-30% increase from recruiters - but they have all been for temp contract work with lousy benefits - so that's their spin I think.
I looked in to a couple last year and even though they were $20k or more in salary higher than where I was at, the lousy insurance options and other perks made for a total compensation package right about on par with where I was with steady full-time work. --Henry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
