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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 »

15 comments

  • web design company

    5 months ago

    The money is extraordinary but none of these jobs sound even remotely interesting.
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  • Christopher Rees

    5 months ago

    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 :)
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  • androo

    5 months ago

    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..
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  • dm

    5 months ago

    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.
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  • Christopher Rees

    5 months ago

    :) 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.
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  • Darrin

    5 months ago

    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.
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  • Dryeice

    5 months ago

    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
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  • Marcus

    5 months ago

    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?
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  • Christopher Rees

    5 months ago

    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.
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  • K.Mikael

    5 months ago

    It makes me deep and out.

    very intersting.
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  • Tesfahun Aregawy

    4 months ago

    I want to see my self being one of this highly paid people at some time in the future.(student of MIT)
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  • gaidappycix

    4 months ago

    Thank you
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  • Navin Okka

    3 months ago

    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.
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  • Yugiro Fuma

    2 months ago

    Bank Robber or Dangerous Drugs Dealer is the best job on earth.
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  • Christopher Rees

    2 months ago

    :) Except for the whole criminal, decay of society, prison thing..
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