CORRECTED: Skill "Premium" Pay Dropped 13 Percent in 2002; Cert Bonuses Down as Much as 40 Percent

February 19, 2003 - According to market research company in Salt Lake City partners, the average "premium" pay (also known as bonuses and other non-base c ompenstation) skills with the many IT professionals a 3.2% decline in the 2002, in accordance with the companys "q42002 quarterly trend of the year 2002, technology and skills and certification pay" report on the , announced.

New caanan, headquartered in Salt Lake City partners Connecticut, the specialized tracking IT salaries and their relationships to specific job skills and / or certification. Because many certification and skills recognition by employers through bonus payment or other "premium", which records the authentication and skills in these premiums paid.

Certify that the premium payment is a decrease of 3.3 per cent, on the whole, in 2002, although it grew by 0.4%, and the average in the past two years, the report said. Some accreditation has been hit particularly in 2002, but. For example, the premium paid Microsoft MCP certification dropped by 40 per cent, from the report of a year ago. Other authentication see a big decline in the past 12 months compensation premiums include: (i CompTIAs Network + (-30%), Siebel certification consultants (-29%) and industrial and commercial waste prosoft Master Administrator and enterprises Developer (-27%). mcse Microsoft certification held steady in 2002 and to 17 percent in the past two years, a spokesman for the Salt Lake City Partnership.

titles to see a rise in the value of premiums paid in 2002, including Microsoft mcsd (+10%), Novells nasopharyngeal carcinoma (+13%), Red Hats rhce (+14%), low intercepted lpic (+17%).

The two security titles - the new g iac and the International Scientific Committee (2) How the C ISSP high-top, each rise in the value of more than 30%, last year.

general district¸Û¶¼including databases, project management and security certification. certification of the most likely in order to earn the most bonus as a percentage of base salary (when approved), project management professionals, Microsoft HgCdTe, the new giac and Oracle OCP, the name of the operation.

technical skills, some of the hardest-hit skills in 2002 were Cold Fusion (-40 %), Novell GroupWise (-38%), HTML format / of DHTML ( -33%), the windows 2000 (-27%) and JavaScript (-27%). other skills to see decreases in premiums paid for the Linux (-11%), and Ethernet switching equipment (-11%).

some of the skills are very few growth for the payment of premiums for: wml (+10 %), Internet telephony (+11%) and Microsoft Access (+14%). group skills always win the highest amount of premium pay the RAD / extreme programming 16%, the report said.

partnership track in Salt Lake City paid more than 140 certification and skills in 122 North American and European cities, monitoring pay more than 30,000 IT professionals.

To learn more about the companys research or to buy a whole report, visit http://www.footepartners.com.

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