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The 10 Top Paid Senior-Level IT Jobs

Started by cdrees · 2 months ago

You’ve established a career in IT, and now you want to take it to the next level. It’s hard to map out the next move, especially with the rate of change in all the areas of IT.
If you’re contemplating moving forward, knowing your salary options as you achieve caree ... Continue reading »

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  • The money is extraordinary but none of these jobs sound even remotely interesting.
  • I guess that depends on who your asking. To some people they sound like awesome jobs, to others no amount of money would make it interesting. That's what makes the world go 'round :)
  • great post..! i've always used salary.com to find out what i should ask for when it comes to raises and or if i go to get a new job i know a ballpark range of what to ask for salary wise..
  • Wow. All these positions salaries fall into perfectly shaped (and symmetrical!) gaussian distributions. Thats really really weird. This definitely warrants some kind of scientific study to find out what could possibly create such remarkable uniformity and symmetry.
  • :) The bell curve shows the range (the percentages are the same throughout) but the actual salary amounts vary from chart to chart.. It is interesting though.
  • Not interesting? Most of these consist of the "I read this strategy in "Fortune", you guys go do it, I'm playing Golf today" type mentalities. I'm down with that.
  • LOL, me and the 6 guys below me on the chain do all of the above on a daily basis...and the most any of us makes is 45K
  • Am I the only one thinking this is utter tripe especially in regards to the content/web workers? If you're talking about contract workers or some weird edge case like content managers for top 20 sites like BoingBoing.net then maaaaaybe. I'd love to be proven wrong though. The CTO/CIO/Architect stuff sounds fairly reasonable though, so who knows?
  • Well if that's true, then either a) you work in a part of the country/world where the market just doesn't support higher salaries, b) you've undervalued yourself and your skillset, c) you're comfortable where you are and aren't looking to move on to bigger and better things.

    Any which way you look at it though, if you have the skills listed in the article, and truly can function in those roles you are really undercutting yourself. There are companies willing to pay those salaries for that type of work, if you bring that level of value to the table.
  • It makes me deep and out.

    very intersting.
  • I want to see my self being one of this highly paid people at some time in the future.(student of MIT)
  • Thank you
  • As long as IT does not get Diluted with IT H1B, L1 visa folks, IT will pay decent salaries.
    IT Consulting is becoming like Mexican Laborers.
    Who ever works for less gets the Job.
    No wonder American Companies like H1B. as they can make huge money out of these guys rather than the US citizens.

    OBama or MCcain Government should tax companies heavily if they outsource to India.
  • Bank Robber or Dangerous Drugs Dealer is the best job on earth.
  • :) Except for the whole criminal, decay of society, prison thing..

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