Women in IT boast top salaries
- Published on 16 May 2014
- HR Pulse News Desk
The ITWeb Salary Survey 2014 has revealed the top earners to be female chief information officers (CIOs), boasting an annual salary of R1 173 333 – nearly 95k or 9% higher than their male counterparts at R1 077 821. However, of the 42 CIOs that participated, only three were women.
According to Kirsten Doyle, contributor at ITWeb, there were several roles in which women command significantly higher salaries than men in this survey. These include training managers, systems architects, IT managers, IT engineers and Web developers – with women being paid on average 10% to 40% more than the men in the same job function.
The number of women going into the IT industry is still quite low, but the survey shows that the proverbial glass ceiling no longer exists and those who make it in the demanding world of business IT, can and do command top salaries, reports ITWeb.
