Beginning of January is a good time to look back at the previous year, so I'm publishing updated salary statistics that was collected from Belarus software development companies.
While combining this statistics I have not been using any materials available in public domain, so do not be surprised that provided charts are significantly different from information available on dev.by and some other web sites. Yet, several sentences, which explain the meaning of the charts, were copied from one of my previous posts on the same topic.
The first image contains two curves, that reflect proportion of the actual salary values in comparison to the maximum value reached during this period of time. Please note, that two lines differ only in the rate between USD and Euro currencies.
As we can see, average salary in USD/EUR equivalent returned to the level it was 2 years ago.
The second chart shows salary growth level for different categories of expertise. In the terms of this article, the following terminology is being used:
- beginner - entry level technician (0 years of experience);
- specialist - intermediate level (1-2 years of experience in particular area);
- professional - advanced level (3-4 years of experience in particular area);
- expert - a professional with 5 or more years of experience in particular area.
On the next chart, you can see how much IT people earns in comparison to Experts' salaries. Please keep in mind, that Expert's salary doesn't mean highest possible salary in the industry. In this data, it's the average among IT professionals having strong experience in particular area.
As it was stated above, the difference between Experts' salary level and other levels of expertise was increasing during the last year and a half.
The next two images take into account the level of inflation. It might look strange, but last year (2009) was better than 2008 for most IT specialists in terms of the purchase power. Average salaries in USD went about 12.5% down, but local currency exchange rate changed much more outrunning the inflation.
The last chart shows, how the salary grows while a person gets her/his IT experience. Red line uses historical data from the previous graph. Blue line uses only up-to-date salaries and assumes that they are not changing through time for each level of IT employee expertise.
NO charts or source data from this article can be re-republished without written permission from Serge Stepantsov, this blog author.
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2 comments:
Q: Only here, in Belarus, a specialist with an experience in more than 5 years can be called an Expert :)
A: It's quite interesting to see people with small professional experience saying that "years do not matter", and at the same time people with 8 years of experience saying that "at least 10 years are required to become an expert" :)
I used proposed classification just to make the text more readable.
At the same time, I do really believe that a person can become an expert in some dedicated area if she/he spent even less than 5 years mastering that skill. It's all about people...
Q: Average Salary in IT is a pretty strange graph. I don't understand how those curves can actually be crossed :) If you were going to show the difference in rate than you should have altered Y scale
A: Please note that Y scale measurement is %% of absolute values. It explains why the curves intersect.
Q: what is the point in such a graph except showing trend in salary inflation?
A: yes, that red line is a bit confusing. I considered removing it, but left for those people who compare average local salaries to their Euro equivalent.
For example, if I'm an owner of German-based company that has offshore development office in Minsk :), this graph will show me that Belarus IT salary went down 20% during year 2009.
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