Right in line with other areas of non management.

Bears crap in woods,

Men's peckers shrink in cold weather.

So where do I get one of these jobs that's paying twice as much as I get now, even with 30 years of experience of (a) computing, (b) having my work offshored and (c) being made redundant?

I seem to have clicked onto "TheRegister.com" by mistake. What are these "$"'s of which you speak? 401(k)?

Are you familiar with the United Kingdom? we use .co.uk tld's and our currency is the Pound Sterling. We neither care for nor really get the relevance of these American job market / wage analysis pieces that seem to be cropping up everywhere, so would someone fancy doing one on the UK market? perhaps with a London / non London split? or even an England / Scotland split, since we seem to be on about 6 - 10k less than our brethren down south (depending on where you read the job ads from).

Your ball.

(ps, whats with the crappy new icons? I liked the ones 3 incarnations ago... nevermind..)

But in America they only tend to have about 10 days holiday, compared with 20-25 over here, no? (And less bank holidays?). Plus what we take for granted on the NHS, they have to pay for. If you took IT salaries over here, added the employer's NI contributions to the salaries, and paid for the holidays, it would work out about equal.

Though they do pay less for the petrol :)

Now, what do the bods in Bangalore get paid for an equivalent job?

Where exactly do these "averages" come from? I know certain companies don't like their staff discussing their pay packets (the one I used to work for declared such talk to be a sackable offence!) but that don't stop the be-hatching come payday. And since the majority of the people in our Business Unit were in the £10k-£25k range (secretarial and technical) it was *almost* amusing when we were told the "average" salary was nearly £100k a year...

But then, it was also almost considered grounds for, uh, umm... I know fratricide, matricide and patricide but is there a 'proper name' for murd^H^H^H "inviting Senior Management to a higher plane of existance"?