Signing bonuses, starting salaries reach new levels
MENLO PARK, CA – In the market for a new job? If you are a computer professional, a signing bonus could be on the horizon. While the bulk of these cash incentives still go to senior executives, a recent survey of chief information officers (CIOs) shows a growing number of firms are offering bonuses at staff and management levels to recruit top IT candidates. In fact, of those CIOs polled who do offer signing bonuses, 36 percent said they are tendered to both staff and management candidates. The survey was developed by RHI Consulting, of California. The survey also showed that IT professionals can expect starting salaries in 2000 to increase an average of 6.8 percent over 1999. Such an increase falls slightly below the 7.3 percent gain forecast for 1999. Those specializing in systems integration will see the sharpest rise in base compensation, with starting salaries projected to increase by more than 17 percent over last year.
Professionals in Internet-related positions are projected to see an average starting salary increase of 7.2 percent. Within this category, e-commerce specialists will see the biggest rise in base compensation at 14.8 percent.
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Other key findings in the RHI Consulting study are:
Lotus Notes developers will receive average starting salaries of between $58,750 and $79,750 annually, up 14.9 percent over 1999.
Base compensation for senior information systems auditors will rise 11 percent, bringing starting salaries to the range of $54,750 to $69,000 annually.
Senior level desk technicians will see starting salaries increase 10.8 percent over 1999, with base compensation ranging from $39,250 to $50,500 per year.
Programmer analysts can expect a 10.5 percent increase in average starting salaries over 1999, bringing them to the range of $51,500 to $73,000 annually.
Software developers with installation experience will see a 9.8 percent increase in average starting salaries. Base compensation will range from $54,000 to $72,750 annually.
Average starting salaries for chief information officers will increase 2.6 percent over 1999, bringing them to the range of $117,250 to $184,000 annually.
PlugInGo.com, of Middletown on the go
MIDDLETOWN – Third party affiliate solutions provider PlugInGo.com has reached an agreement with oneCommerce.net, which will combine the e-commerce solutions of oneCommerce.net with PlugInGo’s affiliate solution.
oneCommerce.net provides e-commerce consultation, setup, maintenance, hosting and marketing services to merchants in any industry with no up front costs and now a complete affiliate solution administered by PlugInGo.com.
”This alliance with oneCommerce.net takes a merchant entering the online world from the very beginning stages to a total e-commerce package including online merchandising and marketing to expanded sales efforts through affiliate channels.”
Log On America gets Connecticut certification
PROVIDENCE – Log On America has been certified as a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in Connecticut. Pursuant to the company’s CLEC status, business and residential customers will now have an alternative in choosing a local dial-tone carrier.
“Log On America’s CLEC certification in Connecticut is designed to replicate the solid success we have already achieved throughout New England,” said David Paolo, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer.
Computer malfunction delays flights
NASHUA, N.H. — It wasn’t a Y2K problem, but thousands of airline passengers would not have known the difference after a computer problem delayed flights throughout the country last Monday night. A failed computer part at the air traffic control center for the Northeast delayed 125 flights into and out of airports from Washington to Boston, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. Controllers at the Boston Center in Nashua had to switch to a backup system at 7:08 p.m. until the part was replaced at 9:40 p.m., and it wasn’t until after midnight that flights were back on schedule, spokesman Jim Peters said.
February 29 may pose next Y2K computer hurdle
WASHINGTON — February 29 could pose the next problem for computers not programmed to recognize the first “extra” leap year in 400 years. There’s typically — but not always — an extra day in February every four years and this leap year one is particularly unusual.
Leap day 2000 is “the exception to the exception,” explained Rick Weirich, the U.S. Postal Service’s vice president for information technology. Some computers may not expect a leap day this year, and thus skip ahead to March 1, he explained.
Because the actual year is slightly longer than 365 days, an extra “leap”day is added every fourth year. But that still doesn’t make things come out quite even over time, so leap days normally are skipped in years ending in 00.
Except _ and here’s the problem _ if the year ending in 00 can be divided evenly by 400 it still is a leap year.
Thus 1600 was a leap year and 2000 will be too, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not and neither will be 2100.
