Research Report: The State of IT Salaries

A majority of tech professionals (64 percent) reported getting a raise in the past year. Among those who had salary increases from the year before, the plurality (43 percent) credited the raise to job performance. Compared with results from our 2017 salary survey, however, fewer tech pros got raises, no matter the driver (68 percent reported a raise in the prior survey).

Tech pros are feeling good about their earning prospects for 2019, with 70 percent of IT pros, 62 percent of data center pros and 61 percent of channel pros anticipating a raise in the coming year. They’re not quite so optimistic about bonuses — only 37 percent of all survey respondents expect one, a surprising decline given that 49 percent received a bonus in the past year.

A small segment of tech pros (8 percent) had their salaries decrease, and for the majority of survey respondents whose salaries decreased, the reason was largely out of their control.