[photopress:IT_Australian_IT_manager.jpg,full,alignright]According to human resource consultancy Mercer Hong Kong and Australia are the only Asia-Pacific countries among the top 10 paying countries for Information Technology managers. Seven of the bottom 10 are Asian countries.
IT managers in Vietnam and the Philippines — at $15,470 and $22,280, respectively — receive the lowest average annual salaries. Indian counterparts rank fourth from the bottom of a global list, earning an average of $25,000 annually.
The highest salaries are in Switzerland where an IT managers gets $140,960 a year. A counterpart in the United States and the United Kingdom earn an average of $107,500 and $118,190 a year, respectively.
All of these figures are, of course, totally suspect and do not bear any comparison, one with the other.
Let us take an IT manager who is working in New York and commuting in from, say, State Island. If this manager is getting under $100,000 then that is poor. Below a reasonable medium income. Poor.
The same applies to the top paying country which is Switzerland at $140,960 a year average. In Geneva this simply would not be very good money. Nowhere near as good as Australia where the average is $88,850.
Mercer IT workforce specialist David Van De Voort said, ‘Lower-level roles are being moved to regions where talent is cheaper; the jobs that remain in Western Europe and the United States may be fewer in number but are more demanding and complex roles like vendor relationship managers, internal consultants and IT business partners.’
Both the survey and the conclusions are, at first sight, extremely simplistic. Our illustration is said, with no authority whatsoever, to be of on Australian IT manager.
Source: All Headline News