To be honest I'm not exactly sure what you mean by an award rate. Anyways, as I've been doing IT for 8 years here I can give you SOME insight. Of course, IT is a huge industry with all those technologies and sectors, hence knowing all of it is close to impossible. You usually start in a Service Desk as a graduate for something between 30-45K (depends on the hours), then you move into a junior admin/engineer position. That's usually around 45-55K. From there you work your way up. You can go technology-focused or management-focused. If you chose technology, you'd become a senior engineer (around 80-90K), and further up, an architect (90-110K). In management you start as a team leader (70-90K), and than it's a 2-way intersection again. You can choose either project management or people management (both 90-110K). And then comes higher-management and the Exec level, but by the time you get there you're old, you have 2 Porsches already, you live together with your 3rd wife, and you're getting bored
That's pretty much it. I want out waaay before that happens. I'm a team leader at the moment, I enjoy working with people a lot more than working with servers. I hope I can start a non-IT company sometime in the next 3 years though...
Please note, this is far from covering the whole industry and only reflects my personal experience.
Dan
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:36 pm