Report: D/FW tech salaries flat - Dallas Business Journal:

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Dice is a subsidiary of New York-basedr (NYSE: DHX). The Dice based on an annual salarhy survey, shows local technology workersin D/FW recorded an averagee annual salary of $76,836 last only slightly above the 2007 salary level of $76,560 and the 2006 levelk of $74,656 per year. Comparatively, information technology jobs on the nationaol level experienced salary increasesof 4.6 percent last hitting an average level of $78,035 per “I think you have to take a look at what has happenexd in Dallas over the course of 2008,” said Tom Silver, seniot vice president, customer support and chief marketingb officer for Dice.
“We saw the rest of the countryu turn negative in terms ofjob count. In we saw the job count start to declinr severalmonths before. It’s possibld the downturn affectedDallas first, and that may have had an effecft on salary growth in Dallas.” Silvee said his company also looks at job count as an indicatord of how the tech sectot is performing in each The Dallas job count is currentlhy down 45 percent, he says, whilw the rest of the country is down 35 percent.
Another indicatod of slower activity in Dalla is the percentage of traffic visiting the Dice Web site from Silver says in the fourth quarterof 2008, Dalla s traffic at the site was up 20 percent, while traffivc for the rest of the country was up 13 percent. Dice in its reportf says tech professionals consider the following factorsdtop concerns: keeping their skills up to date, job lower salary increases, canceled projects and increasedc workloads brought on by staff reductions. Tech workerds with certain skill sets are still in high demande and are asking forhighef salaries. Dice says securitg analysts saw their salariexjump 8.
4 percent in 2008, whilew software engineers saw their salaries rise 7 percent. Applicatiomn developers experienced 6.6 percent raises, the reporty says.