Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers in the Chicago area are seeing their already top-notch salaries grow at the fastest pace among industry workers, according to a recent report.
The tech executives earn as much as $218,000 per year and $153,000 on the low end, according to the report released earlier this month by Mondo, a New York-based technology placement firm. This group saw a 9 percent uptick in their salaries this year compared with 2013, Mondo said.
Other top earners include vice-presidents in technology-related departments whose jobs start at $109,000 and top out at $162,000. Specialized database administrators are also high earners, commanding as much as $160,000 according to the report.
The Mondo salary guide, released earlier this month, looks at salaries in technology-related jobs across a number of industries including media and advertising, health care, financial services, retail and the high-tech sector. It also tracks the year-over-year change of salaries in technology jobs.
Most tech-related jobs saw upticks in salaries from 2013 to 2014. Only a handful fell flat, including help-desk managers, desktop support analysts, business analysts and SAP developers. None listed in the survey saw a decline in salary.
The Mondo salary guide is based on roughly 4,000 placements for technology positions this year, the Chicago-specific figures are based on local job placements.
Mobile operating system developers are among the most in-demand positions Chicago-area hiring managers are aiming to fill this year, according to the report. This compares to nationally, where the most in-demand positions are for professionals in the Big Data/Cloud arena.
The report also broke-down the most sought-after positions to be filled in various sectors.
In media and advertising, mobile developers, fetching between $105,000 and $155,000, were the most in-demand. In the health care industry, systems administrators, commanding between $75,000 and $115,000 were the most sought after. In financial services, security managers, earning between $120,000 and $160,000 were in demand and in retail and high tech industries, specialized apple mobile device developers were in demand earning at least $105,000 and topping out at $155,000.
Mondo also reported that 48 percent of hiring managers surveyed indicating they plan to hire contractors over permanent staff in the next 12 to 18 months.
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The report also found that 35 percent of hiring managers plan to increase their IT budgets in the next 12 to 18 months.