On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mike M wrote: > On the other hand we might be looking at salary deflation in the > US and Europe. See sig below. I think it's a pretty good salary > myself. I predict that next year this job will be going for $40k-$45k, > and the year after that..., well you get the idea. I'd love to be > proven wrong.
I think there is a pendulum that is swinging. In the last decade, the pendulum was on the side of the IT worker. We could command high salaries and unusual job perks. A few years back the pendulum went quickly in the other direction, favoring employers. Conditions have improved a little since then, but I don't really see things going back to the good ol' days. I think the pendulum will swing less wildly with each cycle, until it nearly reaches equilibrium, with changes being almost insignificant. This doesn't take into account the growing trend of offshoring. We're already feeling the effects of this. It remains to be seen whether offshoring will lose its lustre in practice or if this will change our profession for a much longer duration. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
