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Tech Workers Get a Raise

in News on January 21, 2009 at 2:45 pm PT

Businesses may be cutting the amount they spend on technology, but tech workers got a raise in 2008. The average information technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6 percent increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which surveyed close to 20,000 of its visitors. Security analysts got the biggest raises in 2008, with an average salary increase of 8.4 percent to $86,778. Software engineers were next, with an increase of seven percent to $90,031. Application developers got a 6.6 percent raise to $84,672.